[–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Thanks for the additional context.

I'm sure I'm not alone thinking this but I'm generally cynical and suspicious of anything the US does, given the centuries of interference and manipulation in Haiti (and the region at large). What is the US getting out of this? Never has been actual justice.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    To be fair, the US did use the bomb ruthlessly and some claim unnecessarily. The US also basically menaced the non US-aligned world with their advantage.

    My point being the US wasn't better than her ops at the time.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    He jumped from about 128,000ft / 39,000 m. While an extreme altitude, it is very much inside the stratosphere. The prevailing accepted boundary of space is the Karman line which starts at 328,000 ft / 100,000 m and is much, much higher.

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    In WWII it's generally agreed that the NAZIs had better, more sophisticated weapons. The US and Soviets just built more which ended up being a winning strategy.

    That's a common myth. Like any other nation, Germany had a couple things they did better and things they were worse at. They never had broad technological supremacy at any point in the war.

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