Thomas_More
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And here’s a look on the bright side too: Suddenly, children’s books are appearing in Latin!
All the Harry Potters, Alice in Wonderland are now joining the list with Pooh and Asterix.
As Miranda would say, “What’s happening?”
How does this tally with not expecting Russia to withdraw?
But couldn’t they keep the bulk of Ukraine and its minerals by agreeing with Putin to partition, leaving him the east and coast he has annexed?
They are also against warmongering against Russia.
Surely a right winger for peace is better than a left winger for war?” I’ve got news for you, Theophilus. Ignorance, not only of history, is pretty much ubiquitous.”
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In France, Belgium and Switzerland, supermarket foyers have racks of French-language history-themed comic books. Here too, in the 1970s, these were appearing in English, as well as toys. In the Anglophone world all these history-themed comics and toys (excepting the Asterix books) disappeared at a stroke when the stupid Star Wars movie came out, and were replaced with fantasy.Our rulers and their media must take us for fools.
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In fact, no one will remark it. Just because we are educated about history and society. But we are a minority.You must be aware of the sheer ignorance of history today among British and Americans.
US test and war preparations with China too.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c7223knz3ezo
Philippines and China stand-off.
Proxy wars before this never involved one of the puppet-masters’ countries itself being targeted: not the Korean war nor the Vietnamese war etc. Now, this is different.
Will the U.S. bring it’s war-eager subordinates in Europe to heel or not?
https://apnews.com/article/russia-nuclear-drills-ukraine-war-62ad37602b0cf2901bf82a75e593294d
https://apnews.com/article/czechia-ukraine-russia-nato-blinken-441c9624d95f8193e99cf08effced44f
Do these bloody people WANT a nuclear holocaust???
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp00y03q93mo
Cultural riches under capitalism.
