I love France But modern France is in a state Nothing so much illustrates this state as a story I heard from a D.C. friend of mine Warning: This involves the French military being incomprehensible bastards to their own people. I find it very upsetting.
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After the famous WW1 "Christmas truce" football game BOTH sides enacted a new policy of rotating troops down the line every few months so it would never happen again. Saving lives is not the priority.
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Whenever I think about the bitterness of stuff like this, Lawrence of Arabia's poem always comes to mindpic.twitter.com/prSyXUJhzT
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did it several times with submarines iirc :(
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Japan did it with civilians in an airline crash. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Airlines_Flight_123#Delayed_rescue_operation … Re: the US, (quite a few) left-behind Viet Nam MIA reports? Certain forewarned embassy security lapses? Not caring much about the cheaps (& lying about that) is a human universal.
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