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  • What is truthdig.com? They make a major revelation out of something that is obvious to anybody who spent just 5 minutes thinking about it. Ever since the Roman panem et circenses it is known that even the most authoritarian of dictators has to maintain some level of approval by the people he rules and can’t do everything he wishes.

    Hitler had his KdF and still had to scale down his eradication of “undesirables” before the start of the war, putin has been bribing russians for more than 20 years with scraps from oil money and yet he can’t use conscripts in Ukraine.

    It shouldn’t be therefore surprising that economic sanctions are enacted also against the population in hope that they will undermine the support for the government in question.




  • You may know IPv6 is ridiculously bigger, but you don’t know it.

    “Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.”

    No matter whether we are talking about real space or IPv6 address space, Douglas Adams’ quotes always come handy.





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    5 months ago

    All he had to do was to not force Czechoslovakia to surrender and he didn’t need military presence in Czechoslovakia, deploying troops to France might have been enough. Czechoslovakia had mobilized 1 million man strong army, which would have been able to hold Germans for a considerable time. Not to mention he might have been able to get Poland to join.

    Also I am not sure about which Churchill’s plan to protect Poland you are talking as by the time Churchill became a PM, Poland was conquered and Germany was just starting attack on France.