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Wait, who took off their uniforms? Germans?

I’m legitimately surprised how many people are out here calling her bullshit. Any other thread has people who are totally uncritical of whatever the latest China story is

It’s funny because I definitely believe China uses prison labor, and I’m sure many commenters here do too, but they’re not so blinded by propaganda that they’ll accept this shoddy work as particularly useful evidence

ISIS definitely encouraged person-to-person recruitment with benefits for the recruiter. They engaged in glossy, deceptive advertising showing people living in prosperous normalcy, making potential recruits vastly overestimate their potential for success in the organization. Many parallels.

tactical nukes are low yield weapons meant to be used on the battlefield. they’re very high yield compared to conventional explosives but low compared to city-flattening strategic nukes meant to ensure mutually assured destruction of an entire country

Baghouz was insane. Tens of thousands of people seeping up out of the ground to surrender. Al-hol is a... hole. They were not prepared at all to accept literally tens of thousands of people from that last square kilometer.