Thread by @6Voodoo

We believe that we are right. We see our struggle against leftists as a moral war for the souls of our people and the memories of our ancestors. But so do they. Lets talk about Operation Eland and winning messaging

Why Rhodesia Lost Part 3: Can't see the war for the battles

1/When Portugal left Mozambique in 1975, Rhodesia was in a serious bind. Outflanked on the right, they could not defend both borders at once. They watched as ZANU started building bases behind the safety of the Mozambique border for two years.

2/ ZANU slowly built an army that Rhodesia knew would one day be at their door. For two years the Rhodesians watched it grow, and watched as the CCP built ZANU into a major terrorist organization.

3/ The RSF held back attacking across the border into Mozambique for fear that the already meager support they were getting from the Western World would dry up, and its major ally, South Africa, would go as well.

4/ Finally, after almost two years of ZANU landmines on Rhodesian roads, the RSF launched Operation Eland, a Selous Scouts led cross border raid on the communist base at Nyadzonya.

5/ The plan was simple, load up a bunch of gun trucks, stick a captured and flipped ZANU soldier in the first one, pretended to be allies, drive into the base during the morning formation, and machine gun every communist you see. K.I.S.S.

6/ Shockingly, the plan that sounds like it was created by a drunk Marine corporal hungry for crayons worked beautifully. The convoy drove right into the ZANU base as thousands of communists stood information. They walked right up to the convoy. And then saw the white Scouts.

7/ With 2x 20mm Hispano cannons, 8 machine guns, and a platoon's worth of FALs the Rhodesians mowed down the formed up communists at point blank range. In the course of a few minutes, the Selous Scouts killed over a thousand ZANU soldiers. RSF losses: 4 Wounded.

8/ Because of the fear of reprisal from their allies, Rhodesia decided to try and keep the raid a secret. This gave ZANU the initiative in the messaging. ZANU immediately claimed Nyadzonya was a “refugee camp” and filled the media with pictures of unarmed dead.

9/ The reaction was swift. Not only was all support withdrawn from Rhodesia, but Western countries like Sweden actually supported ZANU with medical supplies and other aid.

10/ South Africa, embroiled in its own border war in the west, withdrew its support troops, which comprised almost half of the Rhodesian Air Force. ZANU was lying, but it didn’t matter. They had won the messaging war.

11/ Rhodesia faced this new obstacle how it faced every other, just try killing more commies. The next year, the RSF launched Operation Dingo, arguably the most lopsided victory in history, back across the border into Mozambique hitting the communist bases of Tembue and New Farm.

12/ Feeling safe after their PR win, ZANU was back to holding morning formations. In an airborne operation that would make @th3v0t4ry and LTC Kilgore salivate, Rhodesia attacked the massed communists with CAS, and then dropped airborne RLI and helicopter SAS on top of the bases

13/ Because the RSF was so undermanned, the same troops would conduct two separate raids two days apart. First at New Farm, and then at Tembue. The RSF even had to bring deHavilland Vampire aircraft from the late 40’s back into service to augment the strike.

14/ Over the course of that week in 1977, the Rhodesian Army and Air Force killed or wounded almost 6,000 terrorists between airstrikes and the ground troops. Rhodesia lost two men. A K:D ration of 3,000:1. And they still lost the war.

15/ Rhodesia could not out message communist terrorists who were shooting down passenger airliners and murdering nuns. And to this day, some of them still blame everyone else. You can not fight your way out of a war for the soul of something. You have to win that soul over.

16/Many on our side believe (like Rhodesia did) standing on the moral high ground will be enough. Brother sand sisters it is not. We have seen the left for years call us every name under the sun. None of them true, but they hit with the messaging and we are again on the defensive

17/Part of our problem is our belief that right and truth will win out in the end, but that is little comfort to the defeated. Messaging is everything in a guerilla war and a counter-revolution, and the messaging war must be won.

18/Despite our many squabbles, (gravy, optics, tampon use as bullet hole plugs), our core beliefs are the same. When you look at the “America First” message, too often we are sucked into a battle over the messenger, and not the message itself.

19/The messenger is only valued in as much as they are able to deliver the message. Trump did not create it, he spoke it into words. The message is ours. We are the ones that suffer before any of the political class will ever feel the slightest pain. The danger is on both flanks

20/We are seeing RNC grifters and Lincoln Project types trying to kill the message because of the messenger. Yes, there are some terrible candidates, but they are coming after the message because they want the grift train to continue forever at our expense.

21/ Just like the leftists want to crush your resistance to globalism, grift, and American exceptionalism and fall back in line and bow to their purple hair god of pederasty.

Don’t.

Share our beliefs. Talk about the good, talk about us helping one another.

22/Our battle is against the leftists yes, but it is a battle FOR the middle. Bring the center to us, shift the Overton window back in our direction. We have lost messaging on almost every front for decades. This doesn't mean moderate our positions into a Bush era soup,

23/ but what do you think would happen to a teacher in the 1950s who acted like the Libs of TikTok teachers? What would the middle have done to one who claimed to be a “MAP”? That we are even having the discussion shows we are losing.

24/ From their victories they have grown greedy. They have advanced too far and now people are beginning to see their excesses and evil. They see the decay of the cities, the drugs and the violence and they fear it will spread.

25/ For the first time in my lifetime, the slippery slope has reached a point where normies are getting concerned and see we are no longer fear mongering, but we need to provide our own message. We can not just sit back and say “I told you so”.

26/ Give your Obama voting laptop class cousin another option when he brings up how the
homeless accost his kids on the way to school.
Or when he asks if you saw the flood of people crossing the border. Don’t gloat, that is a potential future ally

Empathize, and then convert

27/ We need to stand together with one voice and tell them their kids can be safe with us, their jobs can be safe from globalists, and criminals will be punished regardless of their socio-economic status.

28/ These are the things we believe and while we will fight to the death to protect them, we need to be able to communicate them to everyone. Never give up the fight. Fight hard, but more importantly, be able to tell them why you fight. They might help.

PS: A good video on Eland and Dingo