sometimes funded by pension funds
gotta always get that fucking jab in there eh?
capital guts pensions and forced retirement to be financialised, so now every finance evil thing can also get blamed on the slightly better off workers with unions and benefits. fucking manufactured crab and bucket bullshit
its not necessarily a yank’s fault they’re uneducated about what their country has done but anyone who lacks the compunction to ask “why is this person chanting death to america?” and not take their answer from a idiot news host ‘they hate us for our freedoms’—these people don’t deserve a voice on the meaning of a slogan from a country they know nothing about in a language they don’t speak.
(also im not DtB im just defending the formula, which especially should be unproblematic here because we’re aware of the context of the phrase)
the iranians have never meant “yankees should be genocided” death to <country> has always been about opposition to imperialism and neocolonialism.
some navel-gazing arrogant americans think half the world literally wants them dead but they’re the most incurious hateful people imaginable so their opinion doesn’t really count on whether victims of the yankees’ slogans hurt their feelings
the French staff literally thought a substantial armored force couldn’t go through the Ardennes. they ignored intelligence giving them advanced warning because it was not a possibility and the scouts mustve been mistaken. they could’ve moved more troops to counter, attacked them aerially/conventionally in the forest, but their rigid understanding of the combat theater blinded them until it was too late.
i wouldn’t necessarily call it an ‘outdated command structure’ but poor leadership & strategic inflexibility in spades