I’m pretty sure “the battle pope” is what Alexander VI called his penis
yeah idk how those Swiss Guard are supposed to do any covert ops in those outfits
For a good while it was ‘literally the opposite of whatever the USSR was doing’.
It's better now. Not as active as one would like, but they're supporting a lot of America's enemies while staying on good terms with basically everyone.
For a few decades after the Sino-Soviet split, China's foreign policy pivoted to viewing the Soviet Union as it's main rival with the goal legitimizing itself as an geopolitically independent power and combating Soviet influence to the point of derangement.
Czechoslovakia, yeah, the Warsaw Pact sent in troops for a reason. They were essentially in the process of 'liberalizing' itself back into a bourgeois republic until that point.
When you forget to turn off Road to '56 before your Soviet Union playthrough
Given how China supported Pol Pot and invaded Vietnam when they deposed him, I wouldn’t be surprised at their more “gamer” foreign policy moves.
pretty sure the worse option is the side with rhodesia, france and south africa (at least when it comes to Africa)
If anyone's wondering why France and Britain were opponents here. It's because Biafra has a lot of the petroleum resources in Nigeria; so the Nigerian Civil War was partially a neocolonial proxy war between British and French oil interests.
in one hand biafra was somewhat of a colonial attempt by europe but nigeria did commit a a bunch of war crimes against the ethnic people of biafra during the war
Biafra engaged in genocide against numerous ethnic minority groups within their territory. Largely because said minority groups either didn't want to be a part of an Igbo dominated ethnostate, or were simply not thought of as being as deserving of supplies as Igbo populations.
I'm not saying this to deny that atrocities were committed against the Igbo during the Nigerian Civil War, they were and the victims should be remembered. However, a lot of Western perceptions of the conflict are that of an evil (Muslim) Nigeria versus an innocent (Christian) Biafra, which is reductive and wrong.
On the left I'm seeing a lot of anti-colonial nations. Mainly meaning the USSR and non-white suppremacist African states. As bad as Anglos are, I firmly believe the French are worse. Throw in Apartheid states on the right and it's starting to look a lot worse.
Still, I refuse to try to understand or educate myself about this war, so I could easily be wrong.
I think as a rule of thumb, any side that France is on is automatically the worse side
