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Re: Who Knew ? [message #412253 is a reply to message #412246] Mon, 08 November 2021 18:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Anonymous
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Originally posted by: J. Clarke

On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 10:52:51 -0700, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> wrote:
>> On 11/7/21 8:55 AM, D.J. wrote:
>>> On Sat, 6 Nov 2021 19:25:24 -0500, 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 11/4/21 12:11 PM, Quadibloc wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> > Franklin Delan Roosevelt didn't make up Pearl Harbor.
>>>>
>>>> But he did help plan and orchestrate Pearl Harbor. You obviously have no
>>>> idea how war actually worked in those days.
>>>>
>>>> Von Clauzewitz : War is politics by other means.
>>>> Sun Tzu : The best general has defeated his enemy before the war begins.
>>>>
>>>> What does this mean? It means the wars are planned well in advance of
>>>> any actual casus belli. Wars don't just "happen." They are not the
>>>> result of one country stepping on another country's toes. They are part
>>>> of long-term economic planning cooperation between all sides involved.
>>>
>>> Nonsense. That sounds like a conspiracy theory.
>>
>> Right, because we all know that politicians and military war hawks
>> _never_ conspire. They're all angels, right?
>
> If you’re going to set up a conspiracy you aren’t going to sink half your
> fleet to start off. You’d stage something like the NAZIs did with Poland
> where you get a couple of expendables killed and then blow it up into a big
> thing. 1942 was a tough year in the Pacific for the US and its allies. If
> things had gone differently at Midway the war might have had a completely
> different outcome.

What would have been different is the timeline and degree of
destruction, not the outcome. "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" might have been
a B-36 with the entire city leveled.
Re: military options, was Who Knew ? [message #412257 is a reply to message #412253] Mon, 08 November 2021 20:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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According to J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com>:
>> If you’re going to set up a conspiracy you aren’t going to sink half your
>> fleet to start off. You’d stage something like the NAZIs did with Poland
>> where you get a couple of expendables killed and then blow it up into a big
>> thing. 1942 was a tough year in the Pacific for the US and its allies. If
>> things had gone differently at Midway the war might have had a completely
>> different outcome.
>
> What would have been different is the timeline and degree of
> destruction, not the outcome. "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" might have been
> a B-36 with the entire city leveled.

In March 1945 we *did* level the city with a two-day firebombing raid.
It killed 100,000 people, injured an unknown but probably similar
number, and left a million homeless.

It was considerably more destructive than Hiroshima or Nagasaki
but it took 279 B-29s rather than one.

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Re: military options, was Who Knew ? [message #412259 is a reply to message #412257] Mon, 08 November 2021 23:17 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: J. Clarke

On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 01:58:25 -0000 (UTC), John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
wrote:

> According to J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com>:
>>> If you’re going to set up a conspiracy you aren’t going to sink half your
>>> fleet to start off. You’d stage something like the NAZIs did with Poland
>>> where you get a couple of expendables killed and then blow it up into a big
>>> thing. 1942 was a tough year in the Pacific for the US and its allies. If
>>> things had gone differently at Midway the war might have had a completely
>>> different outcome.
>>
>> What would have been different is the timeline and degree of
>> destruction, not the outcome. "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" might have been
>> a B-36 with the entire city leveled.
>
> In March 1945 we *did* level the city with a two-day firebombing raid.
> It killed 100,000 people, injured an unknown but probably similar
> number, and left a million homeless.
>
> It was considerably more destructive than Hiroshima or Nagasaki
> but it took 279 B-29s rather than one.

We leveled just about every city in Japan. But not in our first raid.
Re: Who Knew ? [message #412260 is a reply to message #412246] Mon, 08 November 2021 23:35 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: 711 Spooky Mart

On 11/8/21 11:52 AM, Peter Flass wrote:
> 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> wrote:
>> On 11/7/21 8:55 AM, D.J. wrote:
>>> On Sat, 6 Nov 2021 19:25:24 -0500, 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart>
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 11/4/21 12:11 PM, Quadibloc wrote:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> > Franklin Delan Roosevelt didn't make up Pearl Harbor.
>>>>
>>>> But he did help plan and orchestrate Pearl Harbor. You obviously have no
>>>> idea how war actually worked in those days.
>>>>
>>>> Von Clauzewitz : War is politics by other means.
>>>> Sun Tzu : The best general has defeated his enemy before the war begins.
>>>>
>>>> What does this mean? It means the wars are planned well in advance of
>>>> any actual casus belli. Wars don't just "happen." They are not the
>>>> result of one country stepping on another country's toes. They are part
>>>> of long-term economic planning cooperation between all sides involved.
>>>
>>> Nonsense. That sounds like a conspiracy theory.
>>
>> Right, because we all know that politicians and military war hawks
>> _never_ conspire. They're all angels, right?
>
> If you’re going to set up a conspiracy you aren’t going to sink half your
> fleet to start off. You’d stage something like the NAZIs did with Poland
> where you get a couple of expendables killed and then blow it up into a big
> thing. 1942 was a tough year in the Pacific for the US and its allies. If
> things had gone differently at Midway the war might have had a completely
> different outcome.

Pearl Harbor: Hawaii Was Surprised; FDR Was Not
https://thenewamerican.com/pearl-harbor-hawaii-was-surprised -fdr-was-not/

Naval Commander Kimmel ordered the fleet out of Pearl Harbor and into
the North Pacific out of harm's way. Roosevelt ordered the fleet back to
Pearl Harbor shortly before the attack to "avoid provoking the
Japanese." Yet history and diaries show that FDR's policy was one of
constant provocation.

FDR was a Marxist sodomite, and a mass murderer who betrayed America to
get her into a war for his British handlers.

Senior Japanese Officers opposed and protested the attack on Pearl
Harbor, yet the orders from HQ were to deny their protests. Officers in
US Naval Intelligence warned FDR about impending Japanese retaliation.

The men at the top on both sides had already worked out how they were
going to orchestrate the war and divide the spoils. FDR was chiefly a
British agent, orchestrating American policy for the benefit of the British.

You believe that your country exists. In reality it's an open air prison
ruled by the same people who rule all the other open air prisons known
as countries. Do you believe that cave-dwellers with boxcutters did 911,
too?

None are so blind as those who refuse to see.

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Re: Who Knew ? [message #412261 is a reply to message #412249] Mon, 08 November 2021 23:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: 711 Spooky Mart

On 11/8/21 4:09 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> writes:
>> Doubt it. Once the Germans had been stopped at Moscow, and the ordinary
>> Russian found out what was to happen if Germany won the war, it was only
>> a matter of time.
>>
>> Thinking today, there was a lot of very nasty things happening in
>> Manchuria before the Russian Invasion and after it, which is not really
>> known in The west.
>
> Roosevelt kept telling the Pacific commanders (asking for more
> resources) that Germany could win the war w/o Japan, but Japan couldn't
> win the war w/o Germany ... and so Germany had to be 1st priority
> ... 3/4s of German military were fighting Soviets and D-DAY was strictly
> side show for Germany.

More leftist drivel from the neo-liberal swamp.

Roosevelt was a seditious traitor and a British agent, just like the
other leftist traitors, such as Knight of the British Empire, and
eugenics czar, Sir William Gates.

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Re: military options, was Who Knew ? [message #412262 is a reply to message #412257] Mon, 08 November 2021 23:51 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: 711 Spooky Mart

On 11/8/21 7:58 PM, John Levine wrote:
> According to J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com>:
>>> If you’re going to set up a conspiracy you aren’t going to sink half your
>>> fleet to start off. You’d stage something like the NAZIs did with Poland
>>> where you get a couple of expendables killed and then blow it up into a big
>>> thing. 1942 was a tough year in the Pacific for the US and its allies. If
>>> things had gone differently at Midway the war might have had a completely
>>> different outcome.
>>
>> What would have been different is the timeline and degree of
>> destruction, not the outcome. "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" might have been
>> a B-36 with the entire city leveled.
>
> In March 1945 we *did* level the city with a two-day firebombing raid.
> It killed 100,000 people, injured an unknown but probably similar
> number, and left a million homeless.
>
> It was considerably more destructive than Hiroshima or Nagasaki
> but it took 279 B-29s rather than one.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were firebombed in the same manner. There were no
nukes. That is just psychological propaganda, like the old red mercury
grift. The organs finally admitted that red mercury was a hoax. They
just haven't gotten around to telling you that nukes are also a fairy tale.

It baffles me how neo-liberals are totally oblivious of facts, except
for the ones they want to believe.

Thermonuclear weapons are a total fiction.

The war theatre of WWII was scripted by MI5 and orchestrated by MI5
agents placed in the administrations of numerous countries, including
Roosevelt, several of Hitler's cronies, and dozens of British spies in
America's intelligence apparatus.

Hitler was more loyal to the British than he was to the Germans. Explain
Dunkirk, and Hitler's written rationale for that. Had he taken all the
soldiers at Dunkirk, it would have devastated British manpower. The
whole war was a dog and pony show.

Britain engineered the holocaust. The Jews should be concerned over the
British intelligence organs as much as they are with Germany. Germany
was merely her willing henchman to do the dirty work. This is why the
British-run neo-liberal establishment never stops talking about the
holocaust. It's not because they care about Jews. It's because they care
about deflecting blame away from them for organizing the eugenics
insanity that happened in Germany. It was all started by British
eugenecists, and fed in to the heads of simple-minded Krauts, with their
half-English Fuhrer.

But you all go on, keep blowing smoke up each other's hinder parts about
the British and Washington sanctioned versions of "history" being
canonical or whatever.

FDR set up the fleet at Pearl Harbor for slaughter so he could drag
America into fighting Britian's war.

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Re: military options, was Who Knew ? [message #412266 is a reply to message #412259] Tue, 09 November 2021 10:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Mon, 08 Nov 2021 23:17:30 -0500, J. Clarke wrote:
>
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2021 01:58:25 -0000 (UTC), John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
> wrote:
>
>> According to J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> What would have been different is the timeline and degree of
>>> destruction, not the outcome. "30 Seconds Over Tokyo" might have been
>>> a B-36 with the entire city leveled.
>>
>> In March 1945 we *did* level the city with a two-day firebombing raid.
>> It killed 100,000 people, injured an unknown but probably similar
>> number, and left a million homeless.
>>
>> It was considerably more destructive than Hiroshima or Nagasaki
>> but it took 279 B-29s rather than one.
>
> We leveled just about every city in Japan. But not in our first raid.

Same for Germany. Especially Berlin, being the capital of Nazi Germany
(still is the capital of the Federal Germany today again since October
1990). There were 363 raids on Berlin alone, leaving much of the city in
ruins.

Interestingly and often overlooked the first raid in 1940, while the
Nazis were still conquering France was done by a single French plane. Some
of the bombs were tossed out of a window by the co-pilot. Didn't cause
much damage like the first raid on Tokyo by carrier based bombers
(Doolittle Raid). Purpose was merely to show the enemy that their
respective homelands were vulnerable, and boosted the moral of the allies.
--
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Re: Who Knew ? [message #412267 is a reply to message #412260] Tue, 09 November 2021 10:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 22:35:41 -0600, 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart>
wrote:
> On 11/8/21 11:52 AM, Peter Flass wrote:
>> 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart> wrote:
>>> On 11/7/21 8:55 AM, D.J. wrote:
>>>> On Sat, 6 Nov 2021 19:25:24 -0500, 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > On 11/4/21 12:11 PM, Quadibloc wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > [...]
>>>> >
>>>> >> Franklin Delan Roosevelt didn't make up Pearl Harbor.
>>>> >
>>>> > But he did help plan and orchestrate Pearl Harbor. You obviously have no
>>>> > idea how war actually worked in those days.
>>>> >
>>>> > Von Clauzewitz : War is politics by other means.
>>>> > Sun Tzu : The best general has defeated his enemy before the war begins.
>>>> >
>>>> > What does this mean? It means the wars are planned well in advance of
>>>> > any actual casus belli. Wars don't just "happen." They are not the
>>>> > result of one country stepping on another country's toes. They are part
>>>> > of long-term economic planning cooperation between all sides involved.
>>>>
>>>> Nonsense. That sounds like a conspiracy theory.
>>>
>>> Right, because we all know that politicians and military war hawks
>>> _never_ conspire. They're all angels, right?
>>
>> If you’re going to set up a conspiracy you aren’t going to sink half your
>> fleet to start off. You’d stage something like the NAZIs did with Poland
>> where you get a couple of expendables killed and then blow it up into a big
>> thing. 1942 was a tough year in the Pacific for the US and its allies. If
>> things had gone differently at Midway the war might have had a completely
>> different outcome.
>
> Pearl Harbor: Hawaii Was Surprised; FDR Was Not
> https://thenewamerican.com/pearl-harbor-hawaii-was-surprised -fdr-was-not/

Japan didn't name locations, they used code words. That site is full
of lies. And you fell for it.
Re: Who Knew ? [message #412269 is a reply to message #412249] Tue, 09 November 2021 10:30 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Maus

On 2021-11-08, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> wrote:
> Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> writes:
>> Doubt it. Once the Germans had been stopped at Moscow, and the ordinary
>> Russian found out what was to happen if Germany won the war, it was only
>> a matter of time.
>>
>
> .... Roosevelt also felt US needed Soviets to defeat Japan
> ... aggreement with Stalin that Soviets would come in against Japan
> after Germany was defeated (i.e. 1.5million Soviets had quickly defeated
> million Japenese in Manchuria and were within 3days of invading Japanese
> homeland ... compared to Okinawa where 600k US and heavy shelling had to
> deal with only 76k Japanese ... and months away from any homeland
> invasion).
>

re: Horses

As my time now is largely spent in my chair, watching old Western films
via UTube, I sometines wonder if there was a real oil crises, and
Western society had to revert to horsepower, what would our farming
areas look like?,, Our cities?... inches of horse**** on the main roads.

I read a German veterns story once about the attack on Moscow 1941, by
Spring most of the German horses were dead from cold and after being
eaten by German troops, and had been replaced by hardier Russian ones.

Also, in Normandy, a large part of the `German' army was actually
hilfe-noso-gewillige Eastern Europeans, released from the POW camps when
they would promise to help the Germans.

War is a horrible businness


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Re: Who Knew ? [message #412271 is a reply to message #412269] Tue, 09 November 2021 15:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On 9 Nov 2021 15:30:40 GMT, Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> wrote:
> On 2021-11-08, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> wrote:
>> Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> writes:
>>> Doubt it. Once the Germans had been stopped at Moscow, and the ordinary
>>> Russian found out what was to happen if Germany won the war, it was only
>>> a matter of time.
>>>
>>
>> .... Roosevelt also felt US needed Soviets to defeat Japan
>> ... aggreement with Stalin that Soviets would come in against Japan
>> after Germany was defeated (i.e. 1.5million Soviets had quickly defeated
>> million Japenese in Manchuria and were within 3days of invading Japanese
>> homeland ... compared to Okinawa where 600k US and heavy shelling had to
>> deal with only 76k Japanese ... and months away from any homeland
>> invasion).
>>
>
> re: Horses
>
> As my time now is largely spent in my chair, watching old Western films
> via UTube, I sometines wonder if there was a real oil crises, and
> Western society had to revert to horsepower, what would our farming
> areas look like?,, Our cities?... inches of horse**** on the main roads.

After New York City, NY banned horses from the city as transport,
pulling trollly cars, etc. the amount of lung diseases from horse
manure dropped significantly.

> I read a German veterns story once about the attack on Moscow 1941, by
> Spring most of the German horses were dead from cold and after being
> eaten by German troops, and had been replaced by hardier Russian ones.

I believe it was in Martin Caidin's book 'The Tigers are Burning'
where he mentioned that German and Russian horses protected from the
wind, in the same type of shelter, the Russian horses would survive
colder temperatures. The German horses froze.

> Also, in Normandy, a large part of the `German' army was actually
> hilfe-noso-gewillige Eastern Europeans, released from the POW camps when
> they would promise to help the Germans.
>
> War is a horrible businness

Stomach battalions to. Germans with stomach ailments were formed into
groups and placed on the Atlantic Wall; however, there were German fit
units placed there as well.
Re: Who Knew ? [message #412278 is a reply to message #412245] Tue, 09 November 2021 20:06 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: lawrenabae

Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:

> Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> schrieb:
>
>> Joe Biden wanders away and cannot be found?
>
> Lorenzo Smythe to the rescue!

I re-read that just a few weeks ago.

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Re: Who Knew ? [message #412289 is a reply to message #412271] Thu, 11 November 2021 10:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: Maus

On 2021-11-09, D.J <chucktheouch@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9 Nov 2021 15:30:40 GMT, Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> wrote:
>> On 2021-11-08, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> wrote:
>>> Maus <Greymaus@mail.com> writes:
>>>> Doubt it. Once the Germans had been stopped at Moscow, and the ordinary
>>>> Russian found out what was to happen if Germany won the war, it was only
>>>> a matter of time.
>>>>
>
> I believe it was in Martin Caidin's book 'The Tigers are Burning'
> where he mentioned that German and Russian horses protected from the
> wind, in the same type of shelter, the Russian horses would survive
> colder temperatures. The German horses froze.

One could sympathise for Bavarian Horses, as in all wars, the poor
horses suffered and died for reasons they knew not of.

>
>> Also, in Normandy, a large part of the `German' army was actually
>> hilfe-noso-gewillige Eastern Europeans, released from the POW camps when
>> they would promise to help the Germans.
>>
>> War is a horrible businness
>
> Stomach battalions to. Germans with stomach ailments were formed into
> groups and placed on the Atlantic Wall; however, there were German fit
> units placed there as well.

There was an article in Readers Digest years ago which compared German
and French Illnesses. What would ailments be disgnosed and treated for
in both countries. ( It did not consider Alsace!) Rather like the
situation at the moment with our favorite new pandemic. As I rememeber.
liver problems were popular in France, and unknown in Germany. Maybe
it's the sausages! (Blackadder)



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Re: Who Knew ? [message #412297 is a reply to message #412249] Thu, 11 November 2021 22:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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How Did America's Sherman Tank Win against Superior German Tanks in
World War II? Two tank philosophies, totally at odds with each
other. What were they?
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/how-did-americas-sh erman-tank-win-against-superior-german-tanks-world-war-ii-18 5625

From Guderian's Panzer Leader
https://www.amazon.com/Panzer-Leader-Heinz-Guderian-ebook/dp /B07KTBSD1L/
loc2902-3:

Hitler then said: 'If I had known that the figures for Russian tank
strength which you gave in your book were in fact the true ones, I would
not--I believe--ever have started this war.'

loc2903-6:

He was referring to my book Achtung! Panzer!, published in 1937, in
which I had estimated Russian tank strength at that time as 10,000; both
the Chief of the Army General Staff, Beck, and the censor had disagreed
with this statement. It had cost me a lot of trouble to get that figure
printed; but I had been able to show that intelligence reports at the
time spoke of 17,000 Russian tanks and that my estimate was therefore,
if anything, a very conservative one.

loc2262-64:

At this time our yearly tank production scarcely amounted to more than
1,000 of all types. In view of our enemies' production figures this was
very small. As far back as 1933 I had visited a single Russian tank
factory which was producing 22 tanks per day of the Christie-Russki
type.

.... snip ...

Tanks in the German Army
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanks_in_the_German_Army
First encountered on 23 June 1941,[24] the T-34 outclassed the existing
Panzer III and IV.[25] At the insistence of General Heinz Guderian, a
special Panzerkommision was dispatched to the Eastern Front to assess
the T-34.[26] Among the features of the Soviet tank considered most
significant were the sloping armor, which gave much improved shot
deflection and also increased the effective armor thickness against
penetration, the wide track, which improved mobility over soft ground,
and the 76.2 mm gun, which had good armor penetration and fired an
effective high-explosive round.

.... snip ...

The british referred to Shermans as Tommy Cookers because crews were
being sent out to be slaughtered; Boyd's briefings had German's with
10:1 kill ratio (10 Shermans killed for every German tank, even inferior
to the Russians), US was planning on winning with battle of attrition;
Germans would run out of tanks and crew before the US (even at 10:1)
.... although US folklore running out of crews and having to recruit
kitchen staff and cooks.
http://warfarehistorynetwork.com/daily/m4-sherman-vs-german- panther/ The
Sherman was at a disadvantage. Although it mounted 75mm cannon, it was
of a low-velocity type. The Sherman's designers felt that a low-velocity
gun would last longer than a high-velocity one. They failed to realize
that few Shermans would ever last long enough in combat to wear out
their barrels. Later versions would have an upgraded high-velocity gun,
but they would not reach front-line units until late November 1944, five
months after the Normandy invasion. The armor, at 81mm, was considerably
thinner than the Panther's and unable to withstand its armor-piercing
ammunition.

.... snip ...

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Re: Who Knew ? [message #412319 is a reply to message #412246] Sun, 14 November 2021 12:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Mo 08 Nov 2021 at 10:52, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:

> You’d stage something like the NAZIs did with Poland
> where you get a couple of expendables killed and then blow it up into a big
> thing.

It wasn't 'a couple of expendables' - it were prisoners from a
concentration camp.

'Andreas
Re: Who Knew ? [message #412320 is a reply to message #412319] Sun, 14 November 2021 13:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:45:09 +0100, Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de>
wrote:
> On Mo 08 Nov 2021 at 10:52, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> You’d stage something like the NAZIs did with Poland
>> where you get a couple of expendables killed and then blow it up into a big
>> thing.
>
> It wasn't 'a couple of expendables' - it were prisoners from a
> concentration camp.

Exactly, they were dressed in Polish military uniforms. Goebbels
claimed on the radio that they had attacked a German radio station in
Germany. They were murdered, and it was made to look like they had
attacked.
Re: Who Knew ? [message #412325 is a reply to message #412319] Sun, 14 November 2021 14:32 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Anonymous
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Originally posted by: J. Clarke

On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:45:09 +0100, Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de>
wrote:

> On Mo 08 Nov 2021 at 10:52, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> You’d stage something like the NAZIs did with Poland
>> where you get a couple of expendables killed and then blow it up into a big
>> thing.
>
> It wasn't 'a couple of expendables' - it were prisoners from a
> concentration camp.

How does that make them "not expendable" to a Nazi?
Re: Who Knew ? [message #412336 is a reply to message #412320] Mon, 15 November 2021 01:43 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Anonymous
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Originally posted by: 711 Spooky Mart

On 11/14/21 12:39 PM, D.J. wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:45:09 +0100, Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de>
> wrote:
>> On Mo 08 Nov 2021 at 10:52, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You’d stage something like the NAZIs did with Poland
>>> where you get a couple of expendables killed and then blow it up into a big
>>> thing.
>>
>> It wasn't 'a couple of expendables' - it were prisoners from a
>> concentration camp.
>
> Exactly, they were dressed in Polish military uniforms. Goebbels
> claimed on the radio that they had attacked a German radio station in
> Germany. They were murdered, and it was made to look like they had
> attacked.

Sounds like the January 6th Capitol Hill "insurrection."

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Re: Who Knew ? [message #412347 is a reply to message #412336] Tue, 16 November 2021 09:58 Go to previous message
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On Mon, 15 Nov 2021 00:43:23 -0600, 711 Spooky Mart <711@spooky.mart>
wrote:
> On 11/14/21 12:39 PM, D.J. wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Nov 2021 18:45:09 +0100, Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de>
>> wrote:
>>> On Mo 08 Nov 2021 at 10:52, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You’d stage something like the NAZIs did with Poland
>>>> where you get a couple of expendables killed and then blow it up into a big
>>>> thing.
>>>
>>> It wasn't 'a couple of expendables' - it were prisoners from a
>>> concentration camp.
>>
>> Exactly, they were dressed in Polish military uniforms. Goebbels
>> claimed on the radio that they had attacked a German radio station in
>> Germany. They were murdered, and it was made to look like they had
>> attacked.
>
> Sounds like the January 6th Capitol Hill "insurrection."

You misspelled treason.
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