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Brettbaker's avatar

Too many Irish are wearing whiteface.

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Discussion is about 65 iq communist blacks attacking whites and you immediately start changing the subject to jews and Israel. That's definitely the behavior of someone who follows the Mexican catboy fuentes

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The Futurist Right's avatar

"It’s not easy on the face of mere facts to see why Irish filmmakers would take pride in this event"

- I mean come on BAP..; if the higher estimates of casualties inflicted are accurate, it's a genuinely great military performance. Add the incompetence of the UN higherups, and the Irish blacklisting of the commanding officer for surrendering only after depleting his ammunition and you have all the tragic and heroic elements that made Black Hawk Down a hit; all the lies notwithstanding.

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Sean Traven's avatar

The CIA has the following on its own website:

'No book about Lumumba would be complete without

mention of the CIA’s role in Lumumba’s death and

whether Washington actually ordered it. The Lumumba

Plot addresses the question but keeps it perspective as

one element of a larger story. Reid concludes that that in

a meeting in August 1960, Eisenhower did in fact direct

that Lumumba be removed. Eisenhower’s language was

ambiguous, but his intent was not. He wanted Lumumba

out of the way and the president “was not too fussy about

how,” in the words of Richard Bissell, the CIA’s deputy

director for plans at the time. CIA headquarters advised

Devlin of this decision and dispatched the infamous

vials of poison to Leopoldville, in addition to providing

a. Less so his captors. Lumumba was hastily buried, exhumed, and reburied. Eventually his dismembered remains were destroyed with

acid. In 2022, the Belgian government repatriated Lumumba’s gold tooth, which had been wrenched from his jaw as a trophy by Belgian

police commissioner Gerard Soete. See Damian Zane, “Patrice Lumumba: Why Belgium is returning a Congolese hero’s golden tooth,”

BBC News, June 20, 2022.

b. An analysis of the CIA’s covert action programs in the Congo can be found in “CIA’s Covert Operations in the Congo, 1960–1968: Insights from Newly Declassified Documents,” by David Robarge, Studies in Intelligence 58, no. 3 (September 2014).

the station with funds for the purpose of eliminating

the prime minister, to be used at Devlin’s discretion.

The poison was never employed because events on the

ground, as well as Devlin’s operational instincts, suggested to the Leopoldville station chief that a different course

of action might be best. "

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Swagaman's avatar

First

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The Futurist Right's avatar

Suppose any article on the Congo is incomplete without it’s spiritual Nog.

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Inventor's avatar

Do you condemn the Russian neo bolshevik invasion of Ukraine?

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Swagaman's avatar

U mad bro?

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Garreth Byrne's avatar

As others have mentioned, "The Siege of Jadotville" portrays the UN's activities in the Congo generally negatively and portrays O'Brien particularly negatively. It portrays the UN killing civilians and Kantangan forces, led by Falques, responding with a siege. Its a decent film. Worth watching.

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Magnum's avatar

"Only a total overturning at the root of all this, in the spirit, in morality and therefore in the aesthetic, prerational and aspirational basis of morality, only an entirely new morality and a new type of human being can arrest and reverse the drifting of mankind toward perpetual existence in the darkness of a “global tenement.”

Amen. We need a new morality and a new man. The path there is slowly starting to appear

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Barry Dingle's avatar

Boo you whore

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Tim Condon's avatar

I trust this series is part of a book, possibly a re-write of the legacy of the Teheran Conference.

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Simon Trent's avatar

I needs more, I go find Berrier's newsletter. Thanks BAP

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Andrew's avatar

Everyone who hates Africans loves Tshombe. Wat means?

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The Futurist Right's avatar

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The UN’s defeat in this first part of the Congo crisis was recently and fraudulently reinterpreted in the Irish movie The Siege of Jadotville. I haven’t and won’t watch this, but it appears to be marketed as a celebration of the bravery of a troop of Irish UN soldiers facing down the dark forces of “dreg of society” white rapist mercenaries in service to “international corporations” and Darth Vader"

In the film, the mercenaries are portrayed as using the cover of an humanitarian ceasefire to pickup the wounded on the field to launch a perfidious attack on the UN base. Bizarrely enough, they are otherwise portrayed somewhat positively and O'Brien is arguably portrayed most negatively of all. I suppose that's a good example of how good Leftie propaganda works.

'Clearly a film that portrays perfidious mercenaries positively, can't have a hidden agenda...'

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