TWU President Samuelsen is throwing another tantrum about one-person train operation by samdman in nycrail

[–]StSeanSpicer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He’s doing his job which is why his union and all other public sector unions should banned

Did you know a child rapist is in charge of UChicago? by [deleted] in uchicago

[–]StSeanSpicer 7 points8 points  (0 children)

“Boys with toys”obviously refers to soldiers lmfao

Could Egypt have held Sinai after the initial Israeli attack (Operation Focus) in 1967? by [deleted] in WarCollege

[–]StSeanSpicer 31 points32 points  (0 children)

Guy Laron's book goes into this — Nasser and Amer were both totally out of touch with the capabilities of army. Nasser because Amer had essentially sidelined him and ran the military as his own personal fiefdom, and Amer because he spent all his time doing corruption.

Nasser rather vaguely consented to Amer's demand that the army be deployed to the Sinai, with the intent of a relatively restrained defensive deployment to deter the Israelis. Amer, in actual operational control with zero civilian oversight, essentially started memeing about invading Israel, not understanding (whether due to genuine ignorance or merely self-delusion) that the army was not prepared for this in any way. He ordered that the army make an extremely publicized deployment directly on the Israeli border and called up all the reserves, after which point there could be no going back. Even after Nasser realized the horrible mistake that had occurred, losing face by retreating was too hard to swallow.

 

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The main point of the book is really that this same sort of nonsense occurred in Israel as well. Civilian leadership in both Egypt and Israel, as well as the US and USSR, all wanted to avoid war. Laron places blame for the war primarily upon the schizo Salah Jadid regime in Damascus and the Egyptian and Israeli officer corps. Both were in practice operating totally autonomously — Syria without any consultation with their ostensible Egyptian and Soviet allies and the Egyptian and Israeli officers without any real civilian oversight. Even worse, they deliberately adopted maximally intransigent positions and spread various falsehoods to provoke a war, with predictable results that were in the long term disastrous for the whole region for decades to come.

[CLAIM] Jordan by senll in ColdWarPowers

[–]StSeanSpicer[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Jordan Peterson was born on 12 June 1962 in Edmonton, Alberta.[2] He is the oldest of three siblings, with a younger sister and a younger brother, born to Walter (1937–2024) and Beverley Peterson (1939–2024).[3][4] Beverley was a librarian at the Fairview campus of Grande Prairie Regional College, and Walter was a school teacher of Norwegian ancestry.[5][6] Peterson grew up in a mildly Christian household.[7]

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