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Jun 22 4 tweets 2 min read
This is just silly. Between Lend-Lease and the Marshall Plan, Britain got about 300B (net, accounting for "reverse Lend Lease") dollars worth of free aid in WWII. This is almost exactly the same as the total aid Israel has received from the US in its entire history. This does not count things like the extremely generous terms of the Anglo-American loan (long repayment schedule, below-inflation interest rate, the ability to suspend payments up to six times if it couldn't be afforded) or destroyers-for-bases as "aid."
Jun 18 29 tweets 17 min read
Excerpts from "Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire." (1999) Image Unconditional surrender was publicly adopted as a war goal in Jan 1943, with the idea of preventing WWIII, as many Germans, including Hitler, thought Germany had not been beaten militarily in WWI and as such wanted to fight WWII. This caused trouble later. Image
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Jun 17 79 tweets 48 min read
Excerpts from "Shattered Sword" (2005), a history of the Battle of Midway. I assume the rough contours of Midway are broadly familiar. The key thing the book adds is use of untranslated Japanese sources, which debunked many common misconceptions about the battle. Image The genesis of the simultaneous Japanese attacks on Midway and the Aleutians Islands: the IJN had won so hard so fast (Pearl Harbor, Malaya/Singapore, Indian Ocean raid, Philippines, Dutch East Indies), they didn't have any obvious next thing to do. Image
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Jun 12 51 tweets 27 min read
Some excerpts from "India's War: WWII and the Making of Modern South Asia" by Srinath Raghavan, published in 2016. Image First thing to understand about the Raj is that it was practically an empire of its own within the British one, and with a great of autonomy though not self-government. India was a signatory of the Treaty of Versailles. 30M Indians emigrated to other parts of the Empire. Image
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Jun 11 4 tweets 2 min read
The Mexican population of the US Southwest was 83,727 in 1850. This is because we decided against annexing populated areas on the grounds that Mexicans were not fit for self-govt. The modern Mexican pop in the US ~entirely descended from post-1900 immigration, >90% post-WWII. Image 3/4 of this tiny population (outnumbered by more than twice as many Indians, because Mexico did not actually control this territory, hence inviting Anglo settlers) was in New Mexico.
Jun 8 67 tweets 32 min read
Thread from the 2015 version of "How Long Will South Africa Survive?" (RW Johnson, the author, wrote a book with the same title in 1977). "Once the great change of 1990-94 took place there was a general loss of interest in South Africa in the world at large." Image South African GDP grew at 8.3% per year from 1945-65 (admittedly, with extremely high black population growth). Image
Jun 8 91 tweets 44 min read
Thread with excerpts from "The Communist Conquest of China," a 1952 book by a French intelligence officer. I read this because, after reading several books on the diplomatic/political side of things, I wanted a military history of the Chinese Civil War. Image The map as of the end of WWII. Communists had very strong influence in northern China, not much in southern China or Manchuria. Image
Jun 7 5 tweets 2 min read
It was not an "oopsie." There was physically not enough food in Europe and not enough transport to get US food to Europe. This is the single most salient thing about 1945-48 Europe. The delusion that resources are limitless and only denied via malice isn't exclusive to Commies. Image
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Given sharply limited resources, the Allied occupation authorities did not starve Germany, but did put it behind the rest of Europe on the priority list, for obvious reasons.
May 25 5 tweets 2 min read
Science requires a good deal of both honesty (most results will not be replicated) and intelligence, and so does not work well outside of the white world. This does not apply to manufacturing or engineering (easily checkable) and will be lost through Asianizing US STEM. Image This is also why, even from a disembodied abstract "civilizationist" perspective, the common cope that Western civilization can be dragged into the mud but it will be OK because East Asia will keep the torch alive is wrong. Image
May 23 6 tweets 3 min read
This terrible historical analogy gets brought up all the time. A couple of thousand world-class geniuses deliberately recruited (/enslaved for Paperclip) is not remotely comparable to "skilled immigration" in the US today, which is millions of mediocrities. Image
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Apollo and the Manhattan Project both happened while the United States was the most closed to immigration it had ever been in history. Image
Apr 28 14 tweets 8 min read
Some excerpts from a 2013 US Govt report entitled "The Strategic Consequences of Chinese Racism." Image The Chinese see multiculturalism as a sickness in the American body politic destroying a formerly-strong principally Anglo-Protestant US society. Racism keeps Chinese society strong and united against outsiders. Image
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Apr 23 25 tweets 15 min read
Thread with excerpts from "How the War Was Won". Three basic theses:
1) Air-sea battle was more important than land to WWII, with all combatants except USSR focusing on it...
2) ...because it can interdict production before battle.
3) Eastern front was a sideshow, like China. Image Germany, Japan, US, and UK all dedicated 65-80% of their economies to aircraft, ships, and anti-aircraft equipment. Aluminum, crtitical for aircraft production, was thus as or more important than the more famous (Rise and Fall of the Great Powers) steel production. Image
Apr 6 4 tweets 2 min read
Wrong. Also easily checkable, like most wrong hot takes on this site. Unless you think healthy Western civilization started in 1970. Image By the way, since we know contraception/family planning/abortion were not in common use until 1760 (France)/1870 (rest of Europe) and bastardry/cuckoldry rates were both very low, we can be confident this goes back to at least 1300 (less evidence before then). Image
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Mar 15 10 tweets 6 min read
Some excerpts from Russia Under the Bolshevik Regime (Pipes). Key difference between Russia, where the Bolsheviks succeeded, and the rest of Europe, where they failed, is that the masses of the rest of Europe were at least a little bit patriotic. Image
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Of the big Euro socialist parties, the Italians PSI joined the Comintern, but was expelled for not expelling the minority who didn't want to. The German and British Communists were unable to take over SPD/Labour, respectively. Only in France did the major socialist party join. Image
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Feb 26 13 tweets 8 min read
Quick thread on The Rise of Christianity (Rodney Stark, 1996). Stark estimates that Christianity grew ~40% per decade until it made up half the Roman Empire, comparable to Mormonism (up until the 90s, I don't know about today). Image Stark observes that contemporary cults (as distinguished from sects, which split off from conventional religion) overwhelmingly recruit from the religiously-unattached upper stratum of society, and infers that Christianity probably did too. Image
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Jan 22 51 tweets 23 min read
Thread with excerpts from "South Africa's Brave New World." The white establishment gave up gracefully, despite having the military power to fight. The author himself fought apartheid and doesn't regret it, despite his findings. Image
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Immediate capital flight amid massive corruption from the ANC. Chief ambition of much of the new elite: opening casinos, assumed to be a license to print money. Shades of US states doing the same for tax revenue.Image
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Jan 3 5 tweets 2 min read
"It is every migrant’s dream to see the tables turned, to see long lines of Americans and Britons in front of the Bangladeshi or Mexican or Nigerian Embassy, begging for a residence visa." - Suketu Mehta, India-born NYU professor. This in an argument *for* immigration.Image
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From "This Land is Their Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto". Mehta is a professor at New York University. America gave him a far better life than he could have had in India, plus a taxpayer-funded ticket into our cultural elite. And he despises us for it.
Jan 2 8 tweets 3 min read
Some excerpts from the white flight chapter of Jeremy Carl's "The Unprotected Class": The "racial transformation" of urban neighborhoods in the 50s-80s was incredibly rapid, South Shore going from 96% white to 94% black in 30 years. Image I did not know Rosa Parks was attacked in her own home in Detroit (by a black man). Image
Jan 2 8 tweets 3 min read
2024 Dutch version of the famous Danish "It's Complicated" graph. First generation immigrants are net fiscal negatives at all ages - entirely because of "non-western" immigrants. But at least the Netherlands benefits from... there must be something. (new study, short thread) Image This is a very familiar map. Bet you could predict almost all of this with national IQ + selection + obvious adjustment for Afrikaners. Image
Jan 1 4 tweets 3 min read
This dumb meme needs to die. The effects of immigration on population aging are very small, because immigrants age too. China would need literally billions to put a dent in population aging. There are not billions of people as productive as the avg Chinese angling to move there. Image South Korea keeping dependency ratios constant would require about a hundred million immigrants... PER YEAR. Image
Dec 25, 2024 4 tweets 1 min read
Not surprising to those familiar with US immigrant achievement, but about 80% of 21st century Chemistry/Physics/Medicine US immigrant Nobelists are from Europe or the Anglosphere. Of the 10 Asians, 5 are Japanese and 2 are Israeli. As far as national origins: UK dominates. Image
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