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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 1, 2025

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OK but Shaka Zulu was using iron-age tactics in the 19th century. When the British showed up, it was over for the Zulus.

The Rwandans are quite good at fighting... by African standards. If they were in Ukraine, they'd be slaughtered with contemptuous ease by either side. Ukraine had integrated air defences, S-300s, Buks, Strelas, Tunguskas... they were coordinated and capable, loyal response forces would show up to counter a breakthrough. You can't just fly into a Ukrainian airbase with civilian aircraft, land and storm it. That's not how it works.

On the morning of August 4, the two 727s landed first, using their airstairs to discharge the HCU commandos as the aircraft were still taxiing.[3] The Kitona Air Base's airfield and main facilities were captured within 30 minutes,[8] and the remaining two 707s then landed and offloaded their troops and supplies. The four aircraft continued to fly between Kitona and Rwanda, and by August 5 over 3,000 Rwandan and Ugandan troops had been airlifted into Kitona. After the airfield was secured, Kabarebe convinced and bribed local Congolese army units to join his invasion force. These new recruits added over 2,000 Congolese Rebels, as well as Type 59 and Type 62 tanks and ZU-23 anti-aircraft cannons.[3]

4 civilian aircraft continued to fly back and forth? They just bribed the Congolese army to join their cause? They grabbed some crap tanks from the 1950s and 1960s? That's African warfare, whites are on another level entirely.

All military is relative to the competency of the belligerents. You wouldn't say that Hannibal was a incompetent loser if he was bushwhacked by a time-travelling Marine Corp Expeditionary regiment. To bring up the Ukrainians and the Russians, either side would be completely annihilated by a modern western combined-arms military in a war of maneuver, but we wouldn't say that Slavs are incompetent at war.

So who counts as 'white'?

Can non-white countries adapt 'white' ways of war?

To bring up the Ukrainians and the Russians, either side would be completely annihilated by a modern western combined-arms military in a war of maneuver

Doubtful in its own terms, and irrelevant when Khinzal or Oreshnik or Sarmat with thermonuclear warheads show up. Again, African militaries don't have that kind of firepower.

If Hannibal tried to do his thing today with Numidian horsemen and iron age weapons, I'd call him very weak, only capable of beating very weak forces in exceptional circumstances, with no hope of longterm success.

So who counts as 'white'?

Anglo-Saxons, Swedes, Poles, Frenchmen, Germans and others... It's really not a relevant or interesting question. Normal people can give a good approximation of 'who is white' with some uncertainty in the case of Southern Italy/Balkans/Greece-Turkey.

Can non-white countries adapt 'white' ways of war?

Sure can, to differing degrees. East Asians are the best at it, co-equal IMO.

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