Followed by China’s “Century of Humiliation.”
I’ve been trying to make the point that no one can truly understand the contemporary political positions of Russia’s President Putin and China’s Xi and the scholars they have surrounded themselves with for many decades of revolutionary, anti-Imperialist resistance to NATO provocations, without considering what barbarian invaders, invariably from Western Europe and the British Empire have inflicted on these two proud cultures in the recent past, with many witnesses and survivors still alive today, it’s impossible to truly comprehend their perspective. More on the Japanese war crimes in China after the following video.
The magnificent documentary below focuses on the collapse of the French invasion of Russia, how Napolean Bonapartes’ ego sealed his empires fate, we’ll get to China after we’ve crossed the Russian Steppes, buckle up!
“In June 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte led 685,000 men—the largest army ever assembled in European history—across the Niemen River into Russia. Six months later, fewer than 40,000 returned alive. This is the story of the greatest military catastrophe before the World Wars, and why it wasn’t just winter that destroyed the Grand Army. Most people think “General Winter” defeated Napoleon. The truth is far more complex—and far more devastating. The Grande Armée was already dying in the summer heat, months before the first snow fell. Disease, starvation, and Russian scorched-earth strategy were tearing the army apart before winter ever arrived. This documentary reveals what really happened during the 1812 Russian campaign, from the crossing of the Niemen to the frozen hell of the retreat from Moscow.”
Central to the failure to crush Russia, was the underestimation of the durability of the Russian people and the overestimation by Napolean that he could maintain his supply chains.
Let’s move on to the Peoples Republic of China.
Experts believe that at least 25 million people died in the Pacific Theater during World War II, with some of the grisliest deaths befalling Chinese civilians who were systematically tortured by the Imperial Japanese Army.
“Many historical narratives of World War II focus on Europe. There, Nazis brought destruction across the continent, massacring millions of people. But Japanese war crimes were just as atrocious.”
“In the Pacific Theater, the Imperial Army of Japan terrorized people everywhere it went. The infamous Rape of Nanking resulted in the deaths of upwards of 300,000 Chinese civilians, as well as the rapes of between 20,000 to 80,000 girls and women. Secretive Japanese facilities like Unit 731 conducted gruesome medical experiments on prisoners and developed weapons using deadly diseases.”
“And Allied POWs were often subjected to horrific torture and executions, in defiance of international law.”
The Rape Of Nanking: One Of The Worst Japanese War Crimes.
Inside The Horrifying History Of Japanese War Crimes During World War II
The late great John Pilger predicted these days in his magnificent documentary:
The Coming War on China
“The Coming War on China, from award winning journalist John Pilger, reveals what the news doesn’t – that the world’s greatest military power, the United States, and the world’s second economic power, China, both nuclear-armed, may well be on the road to war. Nuclear war is not only imaginable but planned. The greatest build-up of NATO military forces since the Second World War is under way on the western borders of Russia. On the other side of the world, the rise of China is viewed in Washington as a threat to American dominance.”
I was born into an Irish Republican Socialist immigrants’ home in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Part of the reason my parents emigrated was British racism toward us Irish and a desire to give us kids a better life, after 800 years of racist colonial occupation. When I was a lad, I heard my parents, and their Irish comrades debate how Māori were treated in Aotearoa NZ, with similar racism that indigenous Irish faced from the Anglo occupiers in our homeland and within the not very, United Kingdom.
Ma’s dad was a quartermaster in the Irish Citizen Army; he fought alongside the Revolutionary Socialist James Connolly during the Irish War of Independence.
“While Connolly fought for workers’ rights, he also recognized that political independence was essential for any real social change. In the lead-up to the 1916 Easter Rising, he aligned with the Irish Republican Brotherhood and became commander of the Irish Citizen Army (ICA), a workers’ militia originally formed to protect strikers during the Dublin Lockout.”
My grandfathers O.C.
“On Easter Monday, April 24, 1916, Connolly and his forces seized key positions in Dublin, proclaiming the Irish Republic. Despite his socialist convictions, Connolly worked alongside nationalist leaders like Patrick Pearse, seeing the Rising as a step toward both freedom and social equality.”
Who Was James Connolly? The Irish Socialist and Revolutionary Leader
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