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by NarrowEye on Tue Apr 05, 2011 3:37 pm
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Oof I got to smack you at those xD I'm a great fan of war, and I got a lot of magazines about both history and war.
Vietnam was not a defeat, it was a massacre. The US was crippled and humiliated by the defeat to the undertrained and badly armed vietcongs.
Surely Russia backed them up, with equipment, but let's face it Russia was nowhere near the same industrial power as US.
The reason the vietcongs won, was that Americans thought they could march in and win, that made the difference.
When you fight Guerilla warfare, you got to win the civil populace over as one of the first steps in the war.
Americans nearly had them, but not alltogether anyway. They let it slip because the general believed he could win with conventional warfare.
Also, the war was there, fully because of american intentions.
USA saw how the tide of Communism in Asia could come upon them, like a row of dominoes.
They thought that if they lost a country to the communistic north vietnamese, then the rest of Asia would follow them, so they put all in, to stop the vietcongs from taking over. It was nowhere near a reason to go 'help others' americans ... or europens / chinese do that. There's no profit in it, and profit is the very foundation in capitalism.
Also, the fact that so few battles have been lost by americans, and that Germany had fought stupidly...
Yes, Hitler made some fatal moves, but altogether, the NSDAP did much better than the allied, really.
Rommel humiliated french and english forces again and again in N. Africa, while german generals destroyed all resistance in France, Belgium, Holland, Poland and Hungary. The war in the sky would have been lost, if not for the brave RAF pilots who defended England, and for the trusty folks at the radar stations along englands coast, that war would have been lost. In first half of WW2, the germans destroyed hundreds of thousands of tons of material, and sank countless ships, both merchant ships, and battleships. Only after two years, the allied could counter and beat the wolf-packs.
Through political Guile, he absorbed the Balkans into the third reich, and strengthened his position, by taking over their extreme industrial sectors.
The reason he lost, was that he couldn't cope with the surge of new technology in Sonar and Radar that the English and american made under the war of the atlantic.
Also, I've heard of an invasion on Cuba that didn't go all that well, Korea, where only the threats of nuclear warfare from both sides, made it possible to stop, and establish the demilitarized zone, Also the invasion of the Normandy was an extreme failure. It was due to pure luck that the soldiers actually arrived at the right places, which they didn't in some cases, Also, a massive amount of casualties was there, and when you look at the amount of allied forces, and german forces, you can actually tell it as a defeat.
America is in many ways a good thing, but they really don't act on the behalf of the greater good, and for the cause of world peace.
They act after their own agenda, not even caring of the consequences. Do I even have to mention a certain Osama Bin Laden, who was funded with 3 Billion dollars to start a military group? And how the US government actually set Saddam Hussein at the top of Iraq in the first place.
All was done to get American agenda through. Really, profit is a devastating thing. South american governments have been under heavy influence, solely because of the enormous amounts of natural resources in the lands, ranging from oil, to the lumber of the Amazon Rainforest. The lungs of the world.
They're even questioning the sovereignty of Greenland. They are under danish rule, but the massive amounts of rubies, oil and high value metals in the underground, have made them doubt it, and question the danish control. Again for profit.
What I'm saying is, that most people in Europe doubt that the American government really got any kind of agenda, which does not have profit as high priority.
It's hard to trust the ways of americans, and many see them as ignorant about europe, which is where they initially started out from, under the great starvations and plauges. Today, hell a californian wouldn't be able to tell Italy from England, and there's even documentation on that.
Both Bowling in Columbine, and in California On England. My whole point is, that America really doesn't have much to offer the world anymore.
Surely they were great as countering the communists, but they are long gone, and china is in charge of things now, backed up by rich multi-corporations, who's only thinking of... oh my that word again, profit.
EDIT:
Woops, sorry Death, I totally forgot to respond to your post about the shadow ability.
I totally get the idea, that shadow can only be used if there is a source of light or an obstacle creating shadow.
Lighting a flashbang would work just as lightning I guess, but that's not of any importance.
I'll remember it for the ext encounter. But it wouldn't have done much in this battle.
Sorry that I don't know extraordinarily much about shadows and the fantasy abilities of it, but I'm mostly reading David Eddings, and not much else.
Even though I've seen FMA with 'Pride' as a shadow-power-user.
I'll have it in mind, and ask if there's anything I'm in doubt about ;D
M'kay?
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