And tasty
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No Zaera, shrimp are friends, not food!
Since when do you eat food anyway? Also youāre supposed to take the shell off, not eat the poor critters whole.
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I donāt know about evil witches, but I seriously despise Ayn Rand and her toxic legacy. The best thing AR ever did for mankind was to die childlessā¦
And now Iām off to bed. Night night lovelies!
Also: flash!
Photograph: December 1908, Whitnel, North Carolina, Flashlight photo of children on night shift going to work at 6 PM on a cold, dark evening until 6 AM the next morning when they were drenched by rain. Photograph by Lewis Hine for the National Child Labor Committee
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Iām sure sheās in Hell with Margaret Sanger, comparing notes.
In October of 1918, Margaret Sanger opened the first birth control clinic at 46 Amboy Street in Brooklyn, New York.
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You misspelled Thatcher.
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Please stop getting your info from AI. It always gets something wrong.
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āseeing your entranceā
Oh yeah.. nudge nudge, wink wink, is that what you call it?
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This is basic high school history stuff. Just calm down, Photographer. You were educated wrong, but so were lots of people, itās not a big deal.
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How did Stalin plan to invade the Japanese islands? As far as mattered to Japan, Stalin could have Manchuria and go f himself, the only ones with a fleet to invade Japan were the American, who also happened to have a means to wipe out whole cities with a single airplane and a single bomb.
The USSR was the lesser of worries to Japan and Stalin only moved on Manchuria once the Japanese forces were smaller than the soviet eastern armies so Stalin could get a piece of the cake without moving troops across the whole bloody USSR and away from the juicy conquests in the West.
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With the Pacific fleet operating out of Sakhalin (more than enough to overwhelm what remained of the Japanese navy) and the 87th rifle corps, which could be bolstered as necessary but already consisted of some 15000 men.
It very much was not. They attacked the Soviet Union first and were beaten so decisively they signed a non-aggression pact, which they notably kept in spite of strong German opposition and the initial appearance that the Soviet Union was vulnerable.
Absolutely, to do otherwise would have been stupid, and Stalin was a clever man.
Tsk! The Soviet Union were the good guys, so we use the term āliberateā, not āconquerā.
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The USSR spent the whole of its amphibious naval force (all of 60 craft and 78 airplanes with 15,000 soldiers) to painstakingly seize the Kuril islands out of what was left of the Japanese forces (still 80,000 troops in a godforsaken minor corner of the empire).
The Japanese main were out of question without the USA borrowing the means to Stalin, which they refused completely.
So, as I said, Stalin was a non-factor to the Japanese unless the war lasted long enough for he soviets to get their act together in the Pacific, and even then the US would be first, and as far as the Japanese were concerned, the third city-buster bomb could land on somewhere they really couldnāt afford to lose well before Stalin was a threat to the Japanese main.
And eastern Europe was a far more priced trophy bird which Stalin already had in hand.
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The Japanese army at this point was almost as spent as their navy. We saw from the Volkssturm how effective child soldiers are.
Youāre wrong, but I wonāt argue this any more in this forum since I know the janitors here hate discussions. You can mail me in-game if you would like more information.
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Iāve been to different fields of opinion on this topic, so chances are that Iāve already heard everything youāve got to say, and have already said it myself in the past.
And it really doesnāt matter now. The present is present and past is past, we can use the past to figure the present and speculate about the future, but itās a faulty tool and being real is different from being the reality.
Everything you see in the opening of Star Wars are real things (real model ships on a real painting of a planet) but theyāre not realityā¦
ā¦and the sensible Japanese were lucky of the USA giving a plausible excuse to stop the war without the hawks murdering the Emperor and throwing everyone into whatever horrors would have Olympus brought upon all parts. Because the USA only had four fissible cores and after spending three, a fourth one would barely have achieved anything the previous two hadnātā¦ but they brought surrender.
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But why do the USA still have bases in Japan?
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For the same reason we have them everywhere else. Because we can.
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An american helicopter destroyed crops in Germany. Compensation was asked for , but they were told they were entitled to none as an occupied country.
Isnāt it wonderful living under american rule?
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Compared to what Germany did, Iād consider some crops fair trade, myself. But thatās just me.
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