Helping America abuse the global south and stop the spread of communist democracy. What a joke.
I’m proud that the only war my grandad fought in was the only war in which we were the good guys for once, WWII.
Here’s to the brave people who fought against facsism.
Fuck imperial Japan
Fuck Nazi Germany
Fuck Zionist Israel
Fuck South Korea
Fuck the US anti-communist empire
Fun story about my Grandad during WW2. He was stationed on an island shooting down Imperial Japanese planes. Near the end of the war they had next to no supplies. Their clothes were even rotting. Then the Americans swooped in late in the war after the hard work was done, with a ton of supplies and money from war profiteering, and instead of sharing supplies with their allies during a fucking war, they charged huge amounts of money for them. Needless to say, my Grandad came back from the war hating the Americans as much as the Japanese.
personal anecdote that anzac day always reminds me of: used to write for a yearly “satire” paper based in WA (quality is extremely questionable), whose main purpose most years was just pissing people off. We’d started going on a very left-leaning tilt around 2012, and I remember in 2015 we ran an article conflating ANZAC day with Participation Trophies
we got a number of calls that day calling us unaustralian, calling for us to be expelled, threatening us and all sorts lmao
ofc nothing came of it, all empty threats in the end but still it doesn’t take much to poke the aussie patriotism bear
Lmao imagine being proud to be a colonial Australian.
Based paper, props for pissing off chuds
Prosh? Fucking loved that shit back in the day.
might’ve been prosh ;)
that’s very funny
I call it biscuit day and long for a day when we can just celebrate baking and biscuits with no relation to the armed forces whatsoever.
chewy or crunchy
I like burnt chewy so best of both worlds
Edit: but, gun to my head, I’d say chewy.
Fuck North Vietnam
are you sure about that one?
North Vietnam was the anti-communist side, wasn’t it? My history isn’t the best. I’ll remove it if it’s wrong
EDIT: removed. Please educate my dumb ass
North Vietnam was, in fact, the based one (which was victorious)
Thank you for making me slightly less ignorant
In this part of the parade is the people that killed Koreans for no reason, and in this part of the parade is the people that killed Vietnamese for no reason, and in this part of the parade is the people that killed Afghans for no reason, and in this…
Oh hoho don’t be silly, there was a reason.
Profit.
Can’t have communism spreading, that threatens our bottom line!
“We support our troops dying violently to make line go up!”
Likewise Australians also looked down upon the fighting qualities of Americans; most considered the Americans an inferior fighting force who seemed all glitz and brashness. Even MacArthur was upset and humiliated by reports that during an earlier attack against the perimeter’s eastern flank at Buna, American soldiers had dropped their weapons and ran from the Japanese. This feeling towards the Americans would be furthered during the Battle of Buna, where Australian troops bore the brunt of the fighting due to American “inactivity”. Buna, the fourth major Allied victory in New Guinea, was presented not only as the first major victory but an American one. Sanananda, an Australian victory, was presented as merely a mopping-up operation. The Americans would not acknowledge that Australians won the critical battles of Milne Bay, Kokoda and Gona, were largely responsible for the victory at Buna, and were “overwhelmingly” responsible for victory at Sanananda.
The Battle of Brisbane is also a good(if horrible) read.
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our remembrance day is on armistice day for WW1 (Nov 11)When I was a kid I felt like all the assemblies we had in school or other propaganda thing around it were around WW1, because it was a war that Canada conscripted for and the first time Canada sent its own army somewhere (instead of just being under the British).
Because everyone in WW1 is definitely dead, and the WW2 people are dying off, I feel like it’s shifted towards all the wars we were clearly bad in (Korea, supporting Vietnam, modern Afghanistan).
I hate this “fighting for our freedom” shit, it’s much like America’s version of army support, except more lib and smug because we usually say “we were peacekeeping everywhere”. Even though we supported the invasion of Vietnam, and mostly go along with whatever the USA does
remembrance day is on armistice day for WW1 (Nov 11)
We have that too, though it isn’t a public holiday. It’s the ‘somber’ counterpart to the jingoistic ANZAC day.
I’m sure australia’s masters will thank them for pine gap and being a nuclear waste dumping ground. How are those submarines coming along by the way
the only war in which we were the good guys for once
I think East Timor in the 90s might count as a second good one (after Kissinger helped Indonesia invade in the 70s and Australia - at best - looked the other way)
Probably more about the gas fields though
Especially given the whole Witness K business, I don’t think we earn all that many point from our handling of East Timur.
I wonder if there was gas off the coast of West Papua if maybe we’d be doing anything there…
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