• 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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          12 days ago

          love those bs terms

          “preemptive strike”, yhea, that’s a first strike and you just started a war.

          “tactical surrender” losing

          “strategic retreat” running away

          “collateral” civilians

    • Wahots@pawb.social
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      12 days ago

      We don’t really fight wars like the ancients did, which is a good thing. Back then, it was total war with either wholesale enslavement of the population, or killing whoever you could get your hands on, then salting all arable land to kill off whoever was left, and to ensure nobody could live there for centuries.

      It was brutally effective and completely wiped entire civilizations off the map.

      • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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        12 days ago

        Why are you bringing ancient roman warfare?

        By that logic the allies didn’t win ww2?

        The US military is machine designed to siphoning public tax fund towards shareholders pockets.

        that’s why it lost a 20 year war against the poorest people on the planet.

        the was was lost, but the profit was amazing for the real winners. ie, shareholders.