"I appreciate a quote of former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt used, that political leaders should have the serenity to accept the things they cannot change, the courage to change the things they can change, and the wisdom to distinguish between the two. It is important that China and Germany respect each other, accommodate each other’s core interests, adhere to dialogue and consultation, and jointly resist disturbance from bloc confrontation and attempts to see everything through the prism of ideology."
— President Xi Jinping, when meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz
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(Site Administrator)
Hey remember that time Hitler committed resources to proving the Chinese were Aryan..for reasons.. and couldn't? Anyway, empires, which historically don't have enough natural resources of their own need to stick together, eh comrades?
(Site Administrator)
Nazi Germany provided some of the only weapons the Republic of China (under KMT nationalist Chiang Kai Check) had to fight against the Jap invaders in the early 1930s. That ended in 1936 when Nazi Germany & Imperial Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact but some Nazis stuck around and a Nazi Party member ended up saving a bunch of Chinese civilians from the Jap rapists during the Nanjing Massacre.... the Japs were so disgusting they made the Nazis wince.
After WWII the civil war in China continued & the Mao kicked Chiang to the curb, or more accurately to Taiwan where he hid behind his yankee sponsors, with China's treasury that he'd looted. The same yanks that protected the vast majority of Jap war criminals from prosecution & who quietly took the gold the Japs had looted from across Asia. Same yanks who flop their balls in Canada's face routinely. What were you saying about sticking together, comrade?
(Site Administrator)
No pet names please. Don't hurt my feelings or I'll go to the hospital to get them checked, for free.
I know history well enough to know there's always the odd exception in the bunch. We had a Nazi soldier (turns out he was Austrian) go against orders in WW2 Greece when he released women and children from a burning building... after Nazis slaughtered all the men and boys ages 12 and up and locked the women and children in the town's school and set fire to it. I personally knew a couple of the survivors from this incident (and know their descendants to this day) and I've heard first-hand accounts. So, you'll forgive us our personal biases against your preferred philosophy/doctrine, eh? Some of us are still reaping it's benefits.
(Site Administrator)
I've no idea what you're on about with your hot takes about whatever philosophy/doctrine you're projecting onto me. I'm talking about history, there's no ideology there besides what you tried to inject into the convo with your weird take. Kiwi troops helped liberate Greece from the Nazi scourge, well... tried to. You're welcome, comrade.
(Site Administrator)
Projecting? Like, there's a chance you're not communist the way you romanticize this philosophy (doctrine, correct) on this site. I mean, you are the local subject matter expert are you not? Much gratitude to everyone that helped liberate Greece back in the day, by the way.
(Site Administrator)
"the way you romanticize this philosophy (doctrine, correct) on this site"
huh?
when has that ever happened
I'm no expert on commienism but have looked at the basics of it to know what it is. It's likely I know more about it than all the people on here who have a religious-type view of it. My interest is more in history, particularly Asia (west & east) not political ideology. Criticizing the behaviour or ideology of anti-commies isn't the same thing as being a commie.
(Site Administrator)
Excuse me Dan, am I dead? Do we perhaps find ourselves in some parallel universe where we haven't posted what we've posted, and said what we've said these umpteen years? Surely you realize there's a common theme to your content. You're more than an expert. But maybe you're too close and don't see it. Let me know if we need to ring a bell or put up balloons when you do it.
(Site Administrator)
it's kinda ironic that you say this considering the description of this post... read the last sentence
What is it you think I've posted or commented that romanticizes the commie ideology?
Can you give example?
(Site Administrator)
Tell you what. Let me do this for you a couple times going forward, instead.
(Site Administrator)
cool