What Senator Cotton says here would be a bad defense for the Germans convicted in WWI and WWII war crimes trials -- including for firing on shipwrecked in fully operational lifeboats.
This line of response hurts the US and US servicemembers. It will cause long-term damage unless we get this right.
This line of response hurts the US and US servicemembers. It will cause long-term damage unless we get this right.
WELKER: Lawmakers say the 2 men appeared to raise their arms potentially to surrender. Why did Admiral Bradley interpret these actions as anything other than them trying to survive?
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
TOM COTTON: They were sitting or standing on top of a capsized boat. They weren't floating helplessly in the water
December 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
What Senator Cotton says here would be a bad defense for the Germans convicted in WWI and WWII war crimes trials -- including for firing on shipwrecked in fully operational lifeboats.
This line of response hurts the US and US servicemembers. It will cause long-term damage unless we get this right.
This line of response hurts the US and US servicemembers. It will cause long-term damage unless we get this right.
@toddalcott.bsky.social this feels like it could be a propaganda poster campaign. WWI style.
December 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
@toddalcott.bsky.social this feels like it could be a propaganda poster campaign. WWI style.
Tomorrow's silent film review will focus on domestic homicide motivated by racism, a heavy topic that was given surprisingly serious treatment in a pre-WWI American production.
December 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Tomorrow's silent film review will focus on domestic homicide motivated by racism, a heavy topic that was given surprisingly serious treatment in a pre-WWI American production.
WWI enthusiasts finding the Falklands trending and getting disappointed
December 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
WWI enthusiasts finding the Falklands trending and getting disappointed
andy getting into the wwi revisionism i see
December 5, 2025 at 2:19 AM
andy getting into the wwi revisionism i see
Folks who dreamed they would be defeating the foreign hordes in WWI instead ended up sitting in a trench for a year until their feet fell off
December 7, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Folks who dreamed they would be defeating the foreign hordes in WWI instead ended up sitting in a trench for a year until their feet fell off
“We demand an international investigation.”
Nearly a week after the BBC exposed Georgian Dream’s use of a WWI-era chemical agent against protesters, the regime now claims it was just CS (standard tear gas).
Few believe it.
Day 374 of uninterrupted #GeorgiaProtests.
#theCamiteCase
Nearly a week after the BBC exposed Georgian Dream’s use of a WWI-era chemical agent against protesters, the regime now claims it was just CS (standard tear gas).
Few believe it.
Day 374 of uninterrupted #GeorgiaProtests.
#theCamiteCase
December 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
“We demand an international investigation.”
Nearly a week after the BBC exposed Georgian Dream’s use of a WWI-era chemical agent against protesters, the regime now claims it was just CS (standard tear gas).
Few believe it.
Day 374 of uninterrupted #GeorgiaProtests.
#theCamiteCase
Nearly a week after the BBC exposed Georgian Dream’s use of a WWI-era chemical agent against protesters, the regime now claims it was just CS (standard tear gas).
Few believe it.
Day 374 of uninterrupted #GeorgiaProtests.
#theCamiteCase
If you needed one more reason to compare the US to Germany, consider this. After Germany lost WWI, bad actors used resentment about the loss to take over the government in the inter-war period.
The US did the same thing; our inter-war period was just about 120 years longer.
The US did the same thing; our inter-war period was just about 120 years longer.
December 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
If you needed one more reason to compare the US to Germany, consider this. After Germany lost WWI, bad actors used resentment about the loss to take over the government in the inter-war period.
The US did the same thing; our inter-war period was just about 120 years longer.
The US did the same thing; our inter-war period was just about 120 years longer.
Pretty good WWI experience on the balance of things. Valuable work, not in trench, story for the grandkids. "We did not get 'handed an L', hitting a mine occasionally is part of being a minesweeper"
3 Dec 1915 // HM Trawler Etoile Polaire, in use as a minesweeper, sank after striking a mine at about 11.30pm off the South Goodwin lightship. No lives were lost. #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory #WW1
December 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Pretty good WWI experience on the balance of things. Valuable work, not in trench, story for the grandkids. "We did not get 'handed an L', hitting a mine occasionally is part of being a minesweeper"
This is a rare bad take from James. Ukraine is much more comparable to WWI - no future conflict will mirror its full dysfunction, but it is defining the tool sets and tactical problems that will dominate major armed conflicts for the next century.
I think the best parallel is the Iran-Iraq War. It’s a brutal slog between under equipped and exhausted conventional military forces that probably has no real bearing on how other contemporary conventional conflicts be will be fought.
Looking back through history, what war is most relevant for thinking about how the Ukraine war is going or a hypothetical Taiwan war? I’ve heard of people referring to the Ukraine War as “World War 1 with Blade Runner aesthetics” is that a fair characterization?
December 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
This is a rare bad take from James. Ukraine is much more comparable to WWI - no future conflict will mirror its full dysfunction, but it is defining the tool sets and tactical problems that will dominate major armed conflicts for the next century.
Any amateur historians out there who kept wondering how the world could screw up so badly that we had WWI and WWII should stop wondering. The leaders in those days might have had more blood lust but considering the lessons that should have been learned the world is more FUBR now.
December 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Any amateur historians out there who kept wondering how the world could screw up so badly that we had WWI and WWII should stop wondering. The leaders in those days might have had more blood lust but considering the lessons that should have been learned the world is more FUBR now.
My grandfather fought in WWII, was 6'2" and built like a brick German shithouse and every Sunday sat down to football with a glass of Champagne and home-made puff pastry appetizers because HIS father, the man who got his citizenship by serving in WWI, was a professional baker and pastry chef.
My male role models were my grandfathers and uncles. WW2 and Vietnam vets. Small business owners. Blue collar workers. A cop.
All of the “manosphere” stuff I hear is just so odd. Like, every man I grew up around — inarguably macho guys — would just call these people creeps, not “manly.”
All of the “manosphere” stuff I hear is just so odd. Like, every man I grew up around — inarguably macho guys — would just call these people creeps, not “manly.”
December 6, 2025 at 11:46 PM
My grandfather fought in WWII, was 6'2" and built like a brick German shithouse and every Sunday sat down to football with a glass of Champagne and home-made puff pastry appetizers because HIS father, the man who got his citizenship by serving in WWI, was a professional baker and pastry chef.
“These have bound me and chained me
Held my heart in the hills
These will envelop, surround me
Hold my heart when it stills.”
From “Enchantment”
Arthur Bourinot
Canadian poet, WWI pow
📸 by Min
#Photography #Healing #EastCoastKin #Snow
Held my heart in the hills
These will envelop, surround me
Hold my heart when it stills.”
From “Enchantment”
Arthur Bourinot
Canadian poet, WWI pow
📸 by Min
#Photography #Healing #EastCoastKin #Snow
December 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“These have bound me and chained me
Held my heart in the hills
These will envelop, surround me
Hold my heart when it stills.”
From “Enchantment”
Arthur Bourinot
Canadian poet, WWI pow
📸 by Min
#Photography #Healing #EastCoastKin #Snow
Held my heart in the hills
These will envelop, surround me
Hold my heart when it stills.”
From “Enchantment”
Arthur Bourinot
Canadian poet, WWI pow
📸 by Min
#Photography #Healing #EastCoastKin #Snow
NEW!!! U.S. Congress to probe 'WWI chemical' use against Tbilisi protesters
Helsinki Commission leadership demands immediate investigation into reports that Georgian authorities deployed 'deeply disturbing' camite, calling for sanctions on those responsible.
Helsinki Commission leadership demands immediate investigation into reports that Georgian authorities deployed 'deeply disturbing' camite, calling for sanctions on those responsible.
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
NEW!!! U.S. Congress to probe 'WWI chemical' use against Tbilisi protesters
Helsinki Commission leadership demands immediate investigation into reports that Georgian authorities deployed 'deeply disturbing' camite, calling for sanctions on those responsible.
Helsinki Commission leadership demands immediate investigation into reports that Georgian authorities deployed 'deeply disturbing' camite, calling for sanctions on those responsible.
Also reminded of the fact that one of the causes of WWI was the dreadnought build-up the great powers were doing and guess what, those dreadnoughts largely did diddly-squat during the war.
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Also reminded of the fact that one of the causes of WWI was the dreadnought build-up the great powers were doing and guess what, those dreadnoughts largely did diddly-squat during the war.
listening to podcasts on WWI/WWII you get the impression that like 60% of the UK's success is finding a guy with a weird hobby and promoting him really high
December 2, 2025 at 9:14 PM
listening to podcasts on WWI/WWII you get the impression that like 60% of the UK's success is finding a guy with a weird hobby and promoting him really high
the medieval falconry, wwi, and jewish gangster novels waiting in the wings eyeing me
December 6, 2025 at 12:34 AM
the medieval falconry, wwi, and jewish gangster novels waiting in the wings eyeing me
During #WWI, medics applied 1.5 million splints, fitted over 20,000 artificial eyes & used 7,250 tons of cotton wool while applying 108 million bandages to injured soldiers. More than 6,000 medics died & over 17,000 were wounded in the British Army alone.
December 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
During #WWI, medics applied 1.5 million splints, fitted over 20,000 artificial eyes & used 7,250 tons of cotton wool while applying 108 million bandages to injured soldiers. More than 6,000 medics died & over 17,000 were wounded in the British Army alone.
Today is Wear Brown Shoes Day. Naval aviators wear brown shoes to distinguish themselves from the rest of the Navy. The tradition started prior to WWI when officers training to be pilots wore brown shoes instead of black to hide dust from the airfield.
December 4, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Today is Wear Brown Shoes Day. Naval aviators wear brown shoes to distinguish themselves from the rest of the Navy. The tradition started prior to WWI when officers training to be pilots wore brown shoes instead of black to hide dust from the airfield.
I also agree here, but I do think nations are going to learn a lot from how Ukraine fought the last few years and how it has modernized a battlefield where the Russians just toss people into the frontlines like it is still wwi or they are mimicking the Germans thinking they could get to Moscow.
December 6, 2025 at 1:57 AM
I also agree here, but I do think nations are going to learn a lot from how Ukraine fought the last few years and how it has modernized a battlefield where the Russians just toss people into the frontlines like it is still wwi or they are mimicking the Germans thinking they could get to Moscow.
St Andrew, St Cuthbert, St Kentigern and St Ninian, by Douglas Strachan, 1931, in the WWI memorial chapel at the University of Glasgow.
December 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM
St Andrew, St Cuthbert, St Kentigern and St Ninian, by Douglas Strachan, 1931, in the WWI memorial chapel at the University of Glasgow.
"Tell us what you've poisoned us with." A big rally has been scheduled on Saturday in Georgia, after the BBC revealed that Georgian Dream used a WWI-era chemical weapon on protesters last year.
📷 Publika
📷 Publika
December 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Tell us what you've poisoned us with." A big rally has been scheduled on Saturday in Georgia, after the BBC revealed that Georgian Dream used a WWI-era chemical weapon on protesters last year.
📷 Publika
📷 Publika
But WWI was also WWI with swords!
December 4, 2025 at 5:34 AM
But WWI was also WWI with swords!
Lots of Romans and we seemed to do WWI and Nazis/WWII about three times each, but I don't recall ever being taught about the English Civil War *at all*.
December 4, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Lots of Romans and we seemed to do WWI and Nazis/WWII about three times each, but I don't recall ever being taught about the English Civil War *at all*.
President Trump, "We won WWI, WWII, everything in between, everything before it.. Think of all the wars I ended, I should get a Nobel prize for each one"
December 2, 2025 at 10:24 PM
President Trump, "We won WWI, WWII, everything in between, everything before it.. Think of all the wars I ended, I should get a Nobel prize for each one"