I came to Asia in the 70s during the Vietnam war to work as a stringer a.k.a. independent journalist . The first thing you learn in a war zone is that the battlefield is only one part of the war and doesn’t necessarily determine outcomes,
My Dad had a friend who owned a pet Honey Bear. The friend was leaving town for the weekend and asked my Dad if he would care for it while he's gone. My Dad thought it would be fun for us kids to have the Honey Bear over for the weekend. It slept in the bathroom all day.
That evening we went shopping and when we returned we found the bathroom trashed, the walls painted with lipstick and nail polish and shit everywhere! My Mom was livid and my Dad got hell from her for bringing that monster in the house.😂
You talk to anybody is the key to revealing the truth. Little ordinary conversations create the picture. So glad you weren’t a social role player. How refreshing to hear about your work as you, an ordinary.
They call this extraordinary.
The fact the horrifying American Leadership dropped more munitions than both WW wars on a simple people and lost is the beginning of a new story about people.
Now the American leadership is doing the same to their own people.
The Ukrainian War looks like the people mean something to the Russians, nothing to the Leadership of the West as is usual.
This Leadership will be decimated as a causality of this War Id say.
A novel event too complicated to envision for any rational person..
When I escaped from home, I got a good doctor who taught me to communicate.. He gave me a lot of homework, which included talking to people I didn't know --In simple sentences. It made a big difference and I learned a lot.
Nice piece, thank you. I live in Thailand now and over the years have lived in several countries across Asia. As a younger man, I learned in several regional languages how to say 'I'm not American'... so that I didn't have to feel the same degree of guilt in the war crimes that America has committed so egregiously across the region. I still feel bad though, especially as I hear of fresh allegations of NED/CIA meddling in regional politics as they gear up for their coming war of hegemony against China.
This is the sort of thing am interested in. Some of my relatives were affected by the Japanese occupation of China-am interested in the Japanese attitude to China and why their leaders are so eager to be a battering ram-why like Germany they appear to be willing to volunteer to be battering rams to counter China-just saying they’re vassals doesn’t give insight into the psychology of their current humiliation by the US.
Good article Julian.
My Dad had a friend who owned a pet Honey Bear. The friend was leaving town for the weekend and asked my Dad if he would care for it while he's gone. My Dad thought it would be fun for us kids to have the Honey Bear over for the weekend. It slept in the bathroom all day.
That evening we went shopping and when we returned we found the bathroom trashed, the walls painted with lipstick and nail polish and shit everywhere! My Mom was livid and my Dad got hell from her for bringing that monster in the house.😂
Yes, that's what they do. They get bored easily.
Mike the flyer😉, are you a Nederlander? Thanks for the upvote. The email stated Michael de Vlieger upvoted me.
You talk to anybody is the key to revealing the truth. Little ordinary conversations create the picture. So glad you weren’t a social role player. How refreshing to hear about your work as you, an ordinary.
They call this extraordinary.
The fact the horrifying American Leadership dropped more munitions than both WW wars on a simple people and lost is the beginning of a new story about people.
Now the American leadership is doing the same to their own people.
The Ukrainian War looks like the people mean something to the Russians, nothing to the Leadership of the West as is usual.
This Leadership will be decimated as a causality of this War Id say.
A novel event too complicated to envision for any rational person..
When I escaped from home, I got a good doctor who taught me to communicate.. He gave me a lot of homework, which included talking to people I didn't know --In simple sentences. It made a big difference and I learned a lot.
Nice piece, thank you. I live in Thailand now and over the years have lived in several countries across Asia. As a younger man, I learned in several regional languages how to say 'I'm not American'... so that I didn't have to feel the same degree of guilt in the war crimes that America has committed so egregiously across the region. I still feel bad though, especially as I hear of fresh allegations of NED/CIA meddling in regional politics as they gear up for their coming war of hegemony against China.
I've been to Thailand many times and have good friends there still, . Mostly Vietnam vets.
Thanks Julian.
No, thank you
This is the sort of thing am interested in. Some of my relatives were affected by the Japanese occupation of China-am interested in the Japanese attitude to China and why their leaders are so eager to be a battering ram-why like Germany they appear to be willing to volunteer to be battering rams to counter China-just saying they’re vassals doesn’t give insight into the psychology of their current humiliation by the US.
Maybe my new article on Japan will be useful in this regard
Regarding Vietnam and the other victims of the USA, it proves we are the world's foremost terrorist state.
The trouble is that evil is indeed banal.
Thanks Julian I look forward to your commentaries.
They are greatly appreciated here as a similar aged expat in Vietnam.
Thank you for this comment.
We all have something to share.
I was eligible for the draft from Australia to the Vietnam war, in the late 60’s and was lucky to evade visiting Vietnam then.
This only, to find myself here 40 years later, for far better reasons.
My father was taken prisoner for 3:5 years in the siege of Tobruk.
He wisely therefore advised me to evade being drawn into war.
I therefore in turn, feel for those being dragged off the streets in UKRN, now to face almost certain futile death, in the tragic warfields there.
Interesting, as always. And I'll be seeking vids of kinkajou :)
'First They Killed My Father' was a decent Cambodia movie.
Thanks Mike. I worked at the zoo and I was trying to figure out what kind of animal I was. I am still not sure.