Thread by @GumbyPokeyRGA

Wow! This is actually the perfect metaphor! As someone who served in #Somalia, maybe these “kids” are too young to know.

Black Hawk helicopters were shot down over #Mogadishu. Then the rescue mission set after them also got shot down!

#NAFO #film #war #Africa

https://twitter.com/lynch_max_nafo/status/1592463140192935937

It was the early 1990’s. 🇺🇸 was supposed to be part of a multinational coalition under a United Nations 🇺🇳 (“Blue Helmet”) command structure in Somalia 🇸🇴.

🇺🇸 had 1 job: help defend emergency food relief convoys.

Instead, somebody decided to be “John Wayne” and go off script!

In BROAD DAYLIGHT, those MFs decided they were going to fly across town (in full view) into a “hot” landing zone, in the heart of rebel-controlled #Mogadishu, and then try to *capture* the rebel Gen. Mohammed Aideed.

Later, we ended up with THIS mess:

And that, my friends, is how you fu#k up a mission.

In the end, the Americans sent to rescue other Americans who mission-crept their way into a mess they couldn’t handle, had to be rescued by a pissed off Pakistani general, who kinda “took his time” about relieving them.

#Somalia #war #NAFO

Think of the Somali rebels depicted in “Blackhawk Down” as the Global South. Think of the Americans as …well, Americans (or possibly #NATO)!

Americans’ apparent inability to stick with agreements continues to get them into trouble; and then they expect others to join them!

In sum, the film #BlackhawkDown is an excellent *global* metaphor for what is now taking place in #Ukraine.

Do the Americans (& Europeans) see how they are now trapping themselves? Who will rescue them (and us) from the messes they are currently creating?

Time will tell.

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