Re: ww3

Am Donnerstag000023, 23.01.2025 um 14:12 schrieb Athel Cornish-Bowden:

On 2025-01-23 10:54:23 +0000, Thomas Heger said:
 

Am Mittwoch000022, 22.01.2025 um 09:19 schrieb Athel Cornish-Bowden:

On 2025-01-21 06:46:15 +0000, Thomas Heger said:
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Am Montag000020, 20.01.2025 um 14:26 schrieb J. J. Lodder:

Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> wrote:
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On 1/18/25 1:33 AM, Thomas Heger wrote:

The exists a book called 'Hitler was a British agent' by a man nameg
'Greg Hallett'.
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That guy wrote also 'Stalin's British training'.

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There was a whole batch of bogus Iranian historians who attributed any
and every political move in Iran to "the British".

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Not too bad, for the period 1913-1953,
when the Americans took over.
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Thanks to god they're dead and gone together with all that bullshit they
wrote.

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The Mossadeq coup is real history,
as is the engineering of it by the CIA.
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Didn't know Europeans were not spared from that crap either.

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Crap or not, the present mess in Iran cannot by understood
without looking back to the history of colonialism that preceded it,

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I would miss the French in this picture, because Khomeini came actually from Paris.

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Bollocks. Unless this is just an illustration of your inabilty to write idiomatic English. Khomeini had taken political refuge near Paris, yes, but he didn't "come from Paris": he came from Iran, as one would guess.

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Did you know, that Lenin came actually from Switzerland and through Germany, before he went to Russia.

 OK, so it's your lack of understanding of English that's at issue.

English is a second language for me, but I understand it quit well.
It's not perfect, of course. But most of the time I can understand English with ease.
I can also speak, write and read English.
(Not perfect, but quite good.)
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TH