Ah... remember when England decided they owned an island that was located inside the territorial waters of another country?
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the century of war between Berwick-upon-tweed and Russia
The best class I took in college was an intercession course about the Vietnam War. We had to read an entire book pretty much every day, which was great prep for grad school.
I basically learned that the entire war was completely unjustified, it was horrific and brutal on both sides in ways that aren’t talked about, but that ultimately the United States had absolutely no business interfering. Vietnam had spent years under French colonial control, which they overthrew under their own power. They had already asserted a desire to rule themselves.
Tonkin was also a genuine false flag, which just isn’t acknowledged? We manufactured the cause for an extremely unpopular war. So many young man died or were disabled because of something that was pointless.
That class was first that really got me to question the patriotic narrative I was taught about American history in high school.
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Due to a typo, I ended up with "The Cod War"
https://www.icelandreview.com/travel/the-cod-wars-in-iceland/
Pretty sure they made a video game series about that.
pfft. enlist when you're 18, you'll get a whole new war.
I listened to Hardcore History's series on World War I in that window, so that was my assigned war of interest.
This was me too. I probably listened through the "Blueprint for Armageddon" series three times. Never really found any other history podcast that piqued my interest nearly as much as that did.
I like that he’s very open about the fact that he’s not an expert/professional historian. He walks the line between storytelling and rigor pretty well for a pop historian. My favorite episode is the one about the Memnonite (edit: Anabaptist) rebellion that ended with corpses being left up for centuries.
I can't be the only Ersalrope Wars buff here, right?
and who really can go more than a few hours without thinking about the Koinonian Wars?
I'm the War on Christmas guy, and I'm getting my ass handed to me every single year.
I'm the war on drugs guy and I... what was I talking about? Man, those brownies were strong! *strolls off*
i’m the war on advent guy. you don’t know how nice you have it