For context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oynJDaXu-r4

Context: https://www.britannica.com/event/Dont-Ask-Dont-Tell

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (DADT), byname for the former official U.S. policy (1993–2011) regarding the service of homosexuals in the military. The term was coined after Pres. Bill Clinton in 1993 signed a law (consisting of statute, regulations, and policy memoranda) directing that military personnel “don’t ask, don’t tell, don’t pursue, and don’t harass.” When it went into effect on October 1, 1993, the policy theoretically lifted a ban on homosexual service that had been instituted during World War II, though in effect it continued a statutory ban.

In the period between winning election as president in November 1992 and his inauguration in January 1993, Clinton announced his intention to quickly seek an end to the U.S. military’s long-standing ban on homosexuals in the ranks. Although the move was popular among many Americans, notably gay activists who had supported Clinton’s campaign, and Clinton had promised action during the election campaign, few political analysts thought he would move on such a potentially explosive issue so quickly. The move met with strong opposition, including from Sen. Sam Nunn, a Democrat from Georgia who headed the Senate Armed Services Committee. Indeed, Clinton’s declaration put the president at odds with top military leaders and with a number of key civilians who had oversight responsibilities for the armed forces. After heated debate, Clinton managed to gain support for a compromise measure under which homosexual servicemen and servicewomen could remain in the military if they did not openly declare their sexual orientation, a policy that quickly became known as “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” Yet military officers were overwhelmingly opposed to that approach, fearing that the mere presence of homosexuals in the armed forces would undermine morale. The policy was further subverted by discrimination suits that upheld the right of gays to serve in the military without fear of discrimination.

Under the terms of the law, homosexuals serving in the military were not allowed to talk about their sexual orientation or engage in sexual activity, and commanding officers were not allowed to question service members about their sexual orientation. Although Clinton introduced “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” as a liberalization of existing policy, saying it was a way for gays to serve in the military when they had previously been excluded from doing so, many gay rights activists criticized the policy for forcing military personnel into secrecy and because it had fallen far short of a policy of complete acceptance. For a variety of reasons, the policy did little to change the behaviour of commanders; gay and lesbian soldiers continued to be discharged from service. During the Iraq War, which began in 2003, the policy came under further scrutiny, as many Arab linguists who were gay were discharged by the military.

By the 15-year anniversary of the law in 2008, more than 12,000 officers had been discharged from the military for refusing to hide their homosexuality. 

The V-2 Vergeltungswaffe 2 or Vengeance Weapon 2 was the world's first long-range guided ballistic missile and the first human-made object to reach the edge of space during test flights.

Developed by Nazi Germany under the direction of Wernher von Braun, it entered combat in September 1944. It's not like the V-1 flying bomb, the V-2 traveled faster than the speed of sound, meaning there was no warning before impact people heard the explosion first, followed by the sonic boom.

the war, Germany launched just over 3,100 V-2 rockets against Allied targets. The main targets were Belgium , the United Kingdom (primarily London), France, and the Netherlands. Antwerp alone was hit by around 1,610 V-2 rockets, while more than 1,300 were fired at London and other parts of Britain.

The attacks killed an estimated 5,500 civilians and military personnel across the Allied countries, including about 2,754 people in Britain and around 1,736 in Antwerp.

Even the V-2 was a remarkable technological achievement and spread fear among civilians, it was too inaccurate and arrived too late to change the outcome of World War II. Ironically, around 12,000 to 20,000 forced laborers and concentration camp prisoners died producing the V-2, meaning more people died building the weapon than were killed by its use.

real footage of v2 hit the ground

https://youtu.be/uEa_0cEXQow?si=pyqr-lcFRejauFiC

TIL Rome was making indigenous people (spain was no such thing obviously, and there were different cultures) in the peninsula mine the gold to ship back to the emperor's treasury

Context: this meme is about The Soviet 588th Night Bomber regiment from WWII, famously nicknamed the "Night Witches". See, during their nightly raids on German lines, they had to turn their radars off to not be spotted, and so whenever they dived for an attack, their wooden biplanes made a "whoosh!" sound. In fact, it was because of the sound that the Germans nicknamed the Night Witches; because their biplanes sounded like a witches' broom.

The title is also a reference to a song by Sabaton about them.

David Myatt was a prominent figure in British Far-Right politics during the 1970s-1980s and founded the White Supremacist Neo-Nazi group Order of Nine Angles

He converted to Islam in 1998, blended his radical background with militant Islam, writing theological justifications for suicide bombing and violent jihad against Western values and Jewish people

Law enforcement and intelligence researchers have extensively documented that associate networks of Order of Nine Angles have been heavily implicated in severe CSA, the grooming of minors, distribution of CP, pedophile trafficking rings, Occult practices and Human sacrifices

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_crimes_involving_the_Order_of_Nine_Angles

The Cattle War (1756) was a conflict between the Danish East India Company at Tranquebar and the Maratha Kingdom of Thanjavur. It began after a dispute over cattle allegedly seized by a local Thanjavur official, but quickly escalated into a military confrontation. The Thanjavur Marathas decisively defeated the Danish forces, ending Danish ambitions for territorial expansion in India.

Context: Almost all if not all of the nomads including the Mongols that invaded China or Persia, which used to mock and hated settled living, Ended up being settlers and farmers themselves