• ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    A tale as old as time. Even back in Vietnam, we were pulling the same shit.

    Willard: “It was the way we had over here of living with ourselves. We’d cut them in half with a machine gun and give them a Band-Aid. It was a lie—and the more I saw of them, the more I hated lies.”

    Apocalypse Now, 1979

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      9 months ago

      Its not really a tale as old as time if you’re only going back to the 1970s. I don’t think it was very common in the ancient world to provide military aid to your ally while also providing aid to their adversary, unless you secretly wanted to screw over your ally as well.