Best timeline, counteroffensive is a spectacular failure. Germany and maybe France reach sufficient internal support to seek rapprochement with Russia. All the countries that recently joined NATO have to double-down or be really fucking embarassed. Germany and maybe France start to distance themselves from NATO to continue rapprochement with Russia. Further decrease in the reach of the NATO-imperial apparatus.

OR worst timeline, we get a Polish YOLO....

          • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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            1 year ago

            On further reflection it could also be (I think it is) a double reference, to both the song "Moon of Alabama" as well as the blog "Whiskey Bar" that covered the Iraq War in the 2000's.

            Billmon was one of the earliest participants at DailyKos. His own blog, Whiskey Bar, came into being in the aftermath of the American invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003. The actual name of the blog Whiskey Bar is taken from a line from Bertolt Brecht's "Alabama Song," quoted at the top of the blog.

            E) just noticed at the bottom of the wiki it says Moon of Alabama is Billmon's new blog lol

      • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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        1 year ago

        I was like 10 during 9/11

        ...how strict were your parents lol? I was basically the same age and everything on the internet looked like this