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This wiki of president Duterte presents him as a monster that's stranger than fiction:
He uses extremely violent language.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigo_Duterte#Shooting_of_student_at_law_school
GIEDRE DUKAUSKAITE
lovely, and reminds me of a mix of Ginta Lapina/Carmen Kass/Edita V.
Also Lithuanian like Edita <3
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f52/giedre-dukauskaite-100519-13.html
The Rogue one woman is also a classy beauty!!!!
10 hours ago, Cult Icon said:GIEDRE DUKAUSKAITE
lovely, and reminds me of a mix of Ginta Lapina/Carmen Kass/Edita V.
Also Lithuanian like Edita <3
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f52/giedre-dukauskaite-100519-13.html
My mom is Lithuanian (descendant of the Golden Horde), but I think their women are just okay.
2 hours ago, Stromboli1 said:
My mom is Lithuanian (descendant of the Golden Horde), but I think their women are just okay.
I don't even know what that looks like. There are so few of them.
Constance thinking about our love and marriage:
7 minutes ago, Cult Icon said:I don't even know what that looks like. There are so few of them.
They look Asiatic. Most of them have assimilated with European culture & interbred too.
On 2016. 12. 14. at 2:04 AM, Cult Icon said:
Why is US politics important to you (in hungary?)
QuoteGábor Fűrész: America was an enemy?
Viktor Orbán: With the American people we are in generally good friends, and have had some good collaboration with the American economic actors, but some US politicians were really hostile. Not only towards us, but all of Central Europe. Rabidly hostile! And if we had taken it upon ourselves, we would have felt humiliated. They handed us a scrap of paper, and they expected us to accept every condition as it was written. Their starting point was that a Central European leader must be one of two types: one is corrupt, the other is Putin’s man, or more likely both, so they are supposed to sideline these leaders. So the behavioral norm for a sovereign diplomatic relations was put on the back burner, and they decided on direct interventions. They wanted to set up complete yes-man types; they were expecting as they came submit their conditions that here there would only be leaders who can say, “Yes, sir!”
This was part of the personal hostility between us, but there is an ideology behind what they called with noble simplicity: soft power. However, this was not just a theory, but also a subtle action plan. With the use of NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations), foundations, media organizations, they enforced their own interests; This was the goal and they used George Soros to establish it. Look, the Romanian election has happened and there was no anti-Hungarian voice — apart from a couple of silly incidents. The explanation: the Hungarians were not the main threat, but George Soros. The winners were campaigning against Soros’ interests, they said; the real opponent is not the small parties, but the Soros NGOs and foundations.
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GFG: How should we imagine what was like to have a telephone conversation with Trump?
Viktor Orbán: I have spoken with a real American. Trump does not complicate things like a politician, who would even have a problem with how to start a conversation. There was a common sound. It is rare in politics, especially with the president of a great power. After all, there is not a man-made thing in the world that cannot be changed. You can change Hungary; it is possible to change Europe and the United States. To change a country can only done by a person who does not have adequacy constraints, who can talk straight and say what he thinks, and if he says something, it has a meaning. To change the United States is gigantic task even from the position of the president — most people would not even try it — but maybe now he will succeed.
I’ll press into my thirty years in the [political] industry; I have seen a wide range of political characters. Trump and his team did not look as if they wanted show up for the beginner classes. Self-made characters are coming, people who themselves are successful, who do not begin a sentence with “I heard about those things,” but say, “I’ve done that.” And they have largely done that. I think the lukewarm sheep-pen world of the socialist/liberals is finished, where you often hear the plural than the singular first-person phrase. Now you will more often hear first-person statements: ”I think”, “I learned,” “My experience”, “I’m doing this.” The time of character-based and cooler politics is coming.
http://gatesofvienna.net/2016/12/viktor-orban-2017-will-be-the-year-of-revolts/
This new model has extreme beauty: Reminds me Candice/Gemma Ward
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f52/agnes-kerlund-275783.html
mikas.se
^ Gemma yes, Candice I don't see
This is an incredible book:
Great analysis of this watermark scene.
^ Is till prefer The longest day ×10.
Just like Pearl Harbor, where the bombing scene technically is a masterwork, but overall it was a forgettable movie. And I never got the hype around Tom Hanks, he's totally mediocre.
21 minutes ago, 17 Moments of Spring said:^ Is till prefer The longest day ×10.
Just like Pearl Harbor, where the bombing scene technically is a masterwork, but overall it was a forgettable movie. And I never got the hype around Tom Hanks, he's totally mediocre.
The battle scenes in the film really lifted up the standards for the rest of the industry; it was a cultural phenomenon at the time. Lots of computer games were also made from the SPR "spark".
I personally like Band of Brothers and the Pacific much more because they are based on memoirs/books. SPR is too imaginary.
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Over the holiday I spent some hours speed reading a lot of my neglected unit histories:
US 2nd, 3rd, 4th Armored
British 11 Armored
116.Panzer
2nd Guards Tank Army
I wish I had a solid 120+ hours to study them all but this is an interesting bit (from my notes): 116.Panzer division "Windhund" perform the classic "fight to the last barrel" active defense against vastly superior British and American units. This is what German troops had been doing the whole war, especially in the Soviet Union.
Interesting combat action from the 116.Panzer Division.
After the offensive phase of the Ardennes offensive is called off (Dec 30), the weakened division (half of armor written off (down to 12 operational)), with less than 1,000 in the two Pzg regiments left), help cover the withdrawal of I and II SS Pz Korps as they leave for battles in Hungary. The 2.SS, on their right wing, leaves.
They are attacked by the US 84.ID and UK 53.ID (then later, UK. 51.ID) that outnumber them by many times on their front. US 84.ID fires 3,000 rounds a day on their positions and slowly pushes them back.
By Jan 14, the PzG Regiments have a combined total of 100! infantry battle strength but about half of 116.Pz's artillery is still operational. Everyday, only a couple tanks and assault guns support this group.
At the end of Jan 15th, the 116.Pz is pushed out of the village of Wibrin by US infantry and tanks, and air support. 1,500-2,000 artillery rounds hit german positions while 7 artillery spotter planes hover over german positions. Several Shermans are knocked out by the division's panthers.
The 116.Pz Artillery regiment's second battalion can only fire 180 rounds back. The Pzg strength for the division is down to 50 men! Divisional commander writes in his notebook: Infantry battle strength is zero. cannot go on.
Hitler authorizes a retreat and OKW communicates this at this time.
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16 Jan, 1945
116.Pz then shifts to defend Houffalize; it is literally a rear-echelon organization with Pzgrenadier strength at 20 supported by 3 operational assault guns.
US 2AD attacks and clears Houffalize with CCB.
From the 2AD history:
"The retreat, beginning on 9 Jan, is conducted offensively; the advance of the Allies is delayed by numerous local counterattacks......The Germans evolved as masters in this kind of ongoing battle and have learned to make use of experiences from the Eastern Front"
Famous pictures of the division in the battle of the bulge:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Longest_Day_(book)
I prefer movies like We were soldiers
or Das Boot
or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalingrad_(1993_film)
or The thin red line
We were soldiers was pretty good. I liked Stalingrad 1993. However, both films are polluted by a political message. Thin Red Line was a great movie with a great soundtrack.
Glantz, the master of Stalingrad history, is going to release a more public-friendly version of the Stalingrad trilogy. It's abridged and simplified.
Great analysis of Snowpiercer: probably the only film (by a South Korean director, inspired by a comic book) that is bold enough to satire the brainwashing of the middle class and how they oppress the poor while being slaves to the super rich.
I got this book as a paperback. IMO it's pretty good, I think it's better than The longest day.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/934407.Incredible_Victory
my notes from my holiday reading: sadly I won't get a chance to do this again for some time:
Some impressions of "116.Pz: From Normandy to the Ruhr":
-unit history reminds me of 23. Panzer at times except for its unluckiness; It is lead by very experienced personnel but the unit is not politically favored like the 1. Pz, 2.Pz, Pz Lehr, and the Waffen-SS Panzer so does not get withdrawn for the counteroffensive build-up.
-goes into action half-trained and late in the normandy battle. Severely pummeled by airpower and artillery focus here and in the Ardennes. Takes heavy losses in normandy and in the retreat, and then receives periodic boosts to its strength in the form of weak march battalions and the absorbing or attachment of random fortress/luftwaffe units/armor units. It is rarely above 50 armor operational and often has only half a dozen tanks and the equivalent of a single battalion of front line troops. Usually has only the equivalent of one artillery battalion (20 guns).
-Infantry favors the use of explosives and Pzshrecks/panzerfausts to destroy US troops in close combat; does so quite a lot in Aachen. They also are significant users of sniper teams. Snipers are held in reserve by infantry officers and deployed to kill key personnel.
-After Aachen the unit's ability is recognized by GFM Model and he orders it to receive a field re-fitting. This bring the infantry up to strength but not the armor. A Stug brigade is often attached. Jagpanthers are attached for a time. Panzer brigades are absorbed. The unit briefly uses a Sturmpanzer unit for the close combat in Aachen.
-The longtime divisional commander is relieved for insubordination at Aachen and replaced with a senior General Staff officer. Guderian comments that this new commander was not an outstanding personality but his temperament (more analytical?) may have been more appropriate for the future battles than his predecessor. The Staff officer, aware of his predecessor's reputation, writes a letter to troops asking them to "put their trust in me, as you did to him".
-overall a competent unit but without many truly great accomplishments. It appears to have been well lead by professionals but was chronically under-equipped/undermanned and it lacked training due its frequent trickle of small ad-hoc refittings. It took a lot of casualties during its existence and past the 8 thousand mark after the Battle of the Bulge. Inflicts sharp blows on Allied forces in Hurtgenwald, Ardennes, and the fighting retreat to the Ruhr. Places a role in Arnhelm and is recognized for competence in Aachen.
-largest battle claim: 200+ British and Canadian armor knocked out and thousands of casualties inflicted during a stretch in 1945. Accomplishes heavy blows in the Ardennes and in Hurtgenwald.
-Guderian and the divisional commander are proudest of their performance from Ardennes to the Ruhr; in their view their division performed incredible feats against extreme enemy numerical superiority. After the Ardennes, the division was generally a battlegroup ( couple of tanks with a battalion of infantry and 2 dozen guns.)
On 12/28/2016 at 8:07 PM, 17 Moments of Spring said:I got this book as a paperback. IMO it's pretty good, I think it's better than The longest day.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/934407.Incredible_Victory
This book was very popular and considered the best about ten years ago:
I'm not a naval guy (I'm all about ground forces) so I don't know if a superior work has been released. My library and personal research is focused on the Eastern Front 1941-1945 and the West Front 1944-1945. US forces, German forces, and Soviet forces.
This is probably the best book on Omaha beach right now. Zaloga is a quality researcher/historian that is at the 'cutting edge' so to speak.
I came across this character and I was impressed. Never saw the show.
Best character of the series?
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Devastating imagery: Chechen war: This film was made in 1997!! Very good setpieces.
