true enough. it isn’t fair to monday-morning QB, and considering many departments’ tendencies to enforce training on lethal use of force and not as much on non-lethal, her training could have just defaulted. but it’s upsetting nonetheless, and some might say it was deliberate. it admittedly was my first thought and any lawyer would run with it.

I haven’t even heard of it, but i’m very curious to learn.

yeah they kind of gloss over how we supported the “White” faction in the October Revolution, up to and including sending troops to Russia to help fight the “Reds”, which led to a bitter East-West distrust and outright hatred that was supported by paranoia and misinformation on both sides as to the “evils” of the opposing systems of government.

that is the best comment i have seen all day.

jesus. yeah let’s make people aware of this.

@metalman thank you!

just noticed, thank you

Honestly, the Italians *are* the reason the Nazis could not win. Specifically, Operation Barbarossa. Mussolini screwed up his takeover of Greece so bad Hitler had to bail him out. That delayed the Wermacht’s conquest of the USSR, which should have been begun in the summer and was delayed to the winter (and history has numerous examples of why you don’t fight the russkies in the snow, unless you’re Finnish). Then, the protracted fighting in the Eastern Front drained his resources for Africa and his “Fortress Europe”, leaving several incomplete gaps that the Allies exploited, first in Africa over years, then in Normandy and beyond in 6/6/1944 with Operation Overlord.
TL;DR: Mussolini lost the war for the Nazis.