Say what you will of Islam, there have been ethnic groups with ties to Islam in China for 500+ years, but before 1800 no meaningful Christian presence.

This is not true. Christianity was introduced to China by Syriac (Syria and Iraq) missionaries and believers of Nestorian Christianity who traveled the Silk Road in the 7th century in 635. Literally 1400 years ago, and 20 years after Islam was even founded.

These missionaries settled in Xi’an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, where they met with Emperor Tiazong, who was extremely interested in the religion, and allowed the missionaries to settle. They then built around 20-30 churches across China, translated the Bible into Chinese, and established a significant presence that would last the next thousand years. There are silk portraits of Jesus, thousands of tombstones dating to 700-1200 with crosses and Christian iconography, and so on.

It’s also an extremely unknown portion of history, but the Mongol Empire was significantly influenced by Christianity and was in close contact with the Papacy. This only spread Christianity further in China.

Partisans, guerrillas, insurgents, resistance fighters, and militia are all essentially the same thing. They are soldiers or civilians that become combatants, but not part of a dedicated outfit in a nations armed forces.

Symmetric warfare has soldiers operate in organized groups, with dedicated logistics and supply and support companies, that communicate and work together with other squads, divisions, battalions, etc usually along a defined battle line. This is your typical “army”.

Asymmetrical warfare is designed to hurt the enemy where small groups can do it best. In the example of Soviet partisans, they did not fight the German army directly. They blew up bridges, ambushed convoys, derailed trains, destroyed communications networks, undertook assassinations, committed various forms of sabotage, and executed small scale raids, etc.

Asymmetrical fighters are usually soldiers that have been cut off behind enemy lines, or civilians that take up arms against occupations. They are small and isolated, which makes them difficult to root out and destroy.

Such fighters are meant to operate in secret. They strike and then disappear, either by going into hiding or blending in with the civilian population. Which is why counter partisans usually punished local civilians for partisan action.

In that case, why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?

Isn't an increased military arsenal exactly what the US wants North Korea to do? The entire strategy seemed to be forcing Korea to starve themselves by investing increasing larger amounts in the armed forces to the detriment of the country.

Wouldn't a focus on nuclear weapons and a divestment from such a large military help North Korea more? What's the US going to do then? I doubt they'd be to keen on turning Japan, Guam, Hawaii, and potentially the West Coast into an irradiated wasteland.

As a resident Belarusian comrade (close enough I guess), that is basically almost always the case. They always chose some absolute ghoul, and because westerners don’t know the language or care enough to check the policies, no one double checks what those ghouls are saying.

In the example of Navalni, he is an ethnonationalist and “national purist”. He is literal scum. If Putin is reactionary, Navalni is a fascist.

Why was he popular? He watched Rick and Morty on Reddit. I shit you not.

How… how do you take it off?

I wouldn't say fascist, the Parks and Rec character was more like the strange libertarian guy some people have in their lives that actually believes in libertarianism and isn't just a Nazi using libertarianism as a cover-ideology. This president character is probably full blown fascist though.

The Last of Us character was pretty realistic though. He just seemed to be a sad, lonely recluse who wanted to be left alone because he was closeted and felt shunned by society as a LGBT person in the early 2000's, when gay marriage wasn't even a thought and being openly gay was still extremely dangerous in the US.

October Revolution happened in November though. It’s only the October revolution by the Julian calendar.

It’s a more grey area, and opens the site up to liability problems. It’s best not to risk it, it’s a simple easy fix and we don’t lose much by not knowing their names.

“Elastic defense” is one of the most common, run of the mill, bog standard, standard defense tactics known to man.

It’s probably taught on the first day of all officers schools worldwide, and on the first page of every tactics textbook.

I like how the article acts like it’s some ancient and never before seen tactical innovation lol

This tradition is technically a European one and has been for probably over a 1000 years at this point. I would assume that it’s present somewhere in Europe.

Death Sideous is the Emperor of a Galactic Absolute monarchy that revolves on utter supremacy and worshiping of the military to maintain its power. An empire that commits countless horrific war crimes, genocides, enslavement, and so on; and is also based largely upon Nazi Germany

I don’t think Sideous is a leftist.