I liked war comics as a kid. The Korean war had ended but I don't remember anybody telling me. It was a bit outrageous. Weren't they still commies? Why weren't we still fighting them then? Adults, what was the matter with them? Anyway I remember the scene where the slightly bucktoothed yellow guy in the Mig (those Migs were so cool with that big gaping mouth in front and that tall tail in the back. Way cooler than whatever jet we were flying at the time. Maybe they were godless atheists and out to bury us and all, but they made the coolest jets) had our guy in his boring jet in his sight and was saying, "Die, capitalist running dog of Wall Street." Wall Street, I wondered, where was that?
I remember during the Vietnam war when they would be describing a battle and they spoke of communist bombs. Communist bombs.
Why didn't they call ours capitalist bombs? Christian bombs maybe?
Communism is an economic theory which neither Russia or China follow anymore. If it pleases Beagles to call them Communists with a capital C, very well then, this is a free country, but most people just call them China and Russia today. Anyway they are both bad actors right now. Russia is the worst of the two because Putin's atomic finger is itchy. The Chinese as always are playing the long game, and in the long run all sorts of things can happen.
Just from the title I don't have much truck with Paul the French guy. Countries do not get human diseases. Commentators often speak of countries as if they were humans, like this is a young country prone to errors, and it is just bullshit. Oh wait, Russia does not have PTSD, maybe it is schizophrenia, maybe it is asthma, maybe it is the sniffles. What difference does it make anyway? How does that make what is going on any clearer to call it PTSD? I have to agree with what he says in the end, that we should not lob nuclear bombs at each other, but then the ten year old me reading war comics would say the same thing.
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