https://news.antiwar.com/2020/09/29/us-military-patch-depicts-drone-and-skull-over-china/

I saw a comment in another thread about "people are touchy over China now due to the propaganda ramp up against them and we don't know why."

Yes, we do know why

  • Blurst_Of_Times [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    I can't wait to hear about the first ship full of Americans to get fucking owned by Chinese missiles in a proxy war. I'm gonna bathe in the shocked tears of my moron countrymen as they remember that wars against real opponents are scary and like, gulp, we might lose?!?

  • FaZe_oswald [any]
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    4 years ago

    meanwhile if western media heard about some chinese soldier scrawling "fuck the usa" or something on the inside of his locker we would never hear the end of it

  • hogposting [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Stuff like this is great for getting people over that hump from "America does lots of bad things but we're still fundamentally good" to "huh, I guess we really are the bad guys."

    • Caocao [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      wtf is the deal with that line about russian agriculture tho

    • keki_ya [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      idk I am kinda shocked, like outside of a patch that says "lets just kill everyone in China" this is about as mask-off as you can go. Like even I didn't expect them to go this far

      • gammison [none/use name]
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        4 years ago

        Airforce units do ridiculous stuff on their patches, like the 18th aggressor squadron has the hammer sickle on theirs https://www.stripes.com/polopoly_fs/1.647028.1601538071!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_900/image.jpg

        • Southloop [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          That's a morale patch. The 18th does have the red Soviet Star behind the blue fox riding a cloud and firing a machine gun on their official patch, with the motto "Have at Thee!" in either Cyrillic or Mandarin depending on what tactics they are teaching with that given day. They do however have an official uniform article that's a red silk aviator's scarf with the hammer and sickle repeating pattern on it. In short, perfectly normal for what they are: a small USSR and PLA air force run by the USAF that lives in the desert, that get away with this stuff in part because they're better than average pilots.

          And I'm not telling you how I know this, but they also have old Soviet banners with Lenin, Marx, etc. plastered all over their squadron ready room where they hold communist book club meetings "to get into the role" as aggressor pilots at Red Flag.

    • sagarmatha [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      and the shit it will probably kick with it with at least india and pakistan being involved, everyone will have their eyes stinging, basking in nuclear heat