Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjirō Koizumi posed with a cardboard drone on Monday during a meeting with drone manufacturer AirKamuy. The AirKamuy 150 is a cheap pre-fab cardboard drone meant to die on the battlefield and it comes shipped in a flatpack like an IKEA shelf.

  • Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Consider the Nazi atrocities and how everyone (rightfully) marks it as the worst event (at least in my environment) in history.

    I wonder, if all historic events that belong to that category of severe events (whole timeline of events. From end to finish), were to be put into a closer vicinity in the timeline so that everything is viewed less historically and more emotionally equal as to what happened.

    Who would be the worst offenders?
    The Spanish
    The Portuguese
    The Chinese
    The Germans
    The Japanese
    The Britains
    The Americans
    (Did the koreans do anything in regards to a genocide/ethnic cleansing?)
    Some other (historic) state?

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      3 days ago

      The Nazis are a bit of a special case. Exterminating the Jews was because they believed the Jews were evil. Yes, there have been arguably “worse” genocides, and the American one may well be - but those were more in order to further another goal, namely occupying land.

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        3 days ago

        I asked this more in the direction of a death-counter.
        The reason wasnt my main concern.

        Essentially it’s always that: