Thanks for the shout out guys. Proud to be a supporter. Interesting to hear you discuss British politics. On this side of the pond, one party is performative only, not trying to bring about meaningful change. In fact they effing want to go backwards. All about the money of course. I hope we survive. Hubby and I are about to go on a WWI tour at the end of this month, his idea. We're reading and talking about it now. Another horrific blood bath with men as cannon fodder. Listening to the current news makes me wonder about the civilian casualties in WWI. I could listen to you all talk about paint drying.
Well there’s German behavior towards Belgians in WW1 which was broadly similar to IDF behavior towards Palestinians. Massive retaliation for actual or supposed resistance. This is covered by Phil in his books as well as others. On the Eastern front we have a lot more brutality and mass murder with pogroms in old Poland by the Russians, Ukrainians and sometimes Poles. There’s also the millions dead of the Armenian Genocide by the Turks, which in turn inspired Lemkin’s early thoughts about genocide.
Thanks for the shout out guys. Proud to be a supporter. Interesting to hear you discuss British politics. On this side of the pond, one party is performative only, not trying to bring about meaningful change. In fact they effing want to go backwards. All about the money of course. I hope we survive. Hubby and I are about to go on a WWI tour at the end of this month, his idea. We're reading and talking about it now. Another horrific blood bath with men as cannon fodder. Listening to the current news makes me wonder about the civilian casualties in WWI. I could listen to you all talk about paint drying.
Well there’s German behavior towards Belgians in WW1 which was broadly similar to IDF behavior towards Palestinians. Massive retaliation for actual or supposed resistance. This is covered by Phil in his books as well as others. On the Eastern front we have a lot more brutality and mass murder with pogroms in old Poland by the Russians, Ukrainians and sometimes Poles. There’s also the millions dead of the Armenian Genocide by the Turks, which in turn inspired Lemkin’s early thoughts about genocide.
Thanks Dustin.