Eh, for how fascistic the US is, they used the fasces for decades if not close to a hundred years before Mussolini ever got the idea, because it’s a classic Roman symbol with a good meaning that was sadly subverted and twisted by fascists.
Can a guy getting blown to bits please get marked NSFW? It isn’t even implied, you see body parts and bits of them flying in different directions along with a massive blood splash as they get turned to dust.
Doesn’t massive investment into the military present generate an enormous, but false, short-term economic boost that quickly dissipates as the military has very little economic follow-through?
You see those buildings left standing? That was known as the Central Prospect and those are the only remaining buildings from “Old Minsk”. The Germans only left them standing because that’s where the officers lived during the occupation.
They purposefully destroyed everything else.
On the first day of the war, the first target the Luftwaffe designated was the city water supply to prevent firefighters from putting out the fires from ensuing raids.
The memorial itself used a line coined by Goebbels of describing the attack as an “Anglo-American terror bombing”, which is hilarious considering that the Germans were perfectly fine with terror bombing their enemies.
Moscow had over 50,000 incendiary bombs dropped on it, Kiev and Minsk were razed. London and other English cities were terror bombed nonstop and the ensuing fires were catastrophic.
But when it’s a sad little Nazi city, now the Germans want to cry. They made their bed, they can lie in it to. Using a line from Goebbels is the cherry on top. This wasn’t a memorial, it was a propaganda statement.
“People” shouldn’t be put in quotes here. They weren’t some incomprehensible Lovecraftian entities, they were humans and people just like everyone. That’s what’s makes their evil all the more horrifying.
The ship was sailing from Turkey to India under a British flag and the ship is ultimately owned by a Japanese company. The Israeli company/billionaire is just a major stockholder in the Japanese company. Israel could care less about this ship.
But you said “maps claim it”, that is not annexation. You require boots on the ground occupation to annex a territory, you can’t just claim an annexation into existence.
I ask again, where has China, “taken those islands”?
You are making yourself look like a fool.
For example, the US and Canada both claim several islands and territories owned by the other. Canadian maps show they own it, and American maps show they own it. Have either of the two countries “annexed” that territory?