>Major power attacks a smaller republic(s) in a blanket show of aggression with no moral or legal justification>Instantly spurns all laws of war and civilization>Outrages the world at large, causing large numbers of volunteers from across Europe and the United States to come to the aid of the plucky defenders>Defenders incur a death toll on the imperialists that is so incredibly vast and prior to unseen as to permanently alter the offending nation>Isolated internationally and reeling from humiliating losses, this radicalizes the population of the imperial power further, causing a disconnect of the view of the average citizen from realityThe main difference is that the Boers lost the conventional war in under a year, whereas the Ukrainians have held out conventionally for almost 5 years now.One point to note; many British are still as disconnected from reality in regards to the war today as they were more than 120 years ago. They insist on it being just despite them launching it essentially due to being bullies with a desire to steal the Boers' possessions, and ending it after having deliberately starved 42,081+ defenseless women and children to death in concentration camps. I'm unsure if they think this way because they were ultimately victorious and an impossible defeat may have given them a reality check, or if this bodes poorly for the future popular Russian interpretation of the war in Ukraine.Bonus; the word "commando" is Afrikaans ("kommando") originating from the Boers.
Mark Twain, in "To the Person Sitting in Darkness,">It is a distress to look on and note the mismoves, they are so strange and so awkward. Mr. Chamberlain manufactures a war out of materials so inadequate and so fanciful that they make the boxes grieve and the gallery laugh, and he tries hard to persuade himself that it isn't purely a private raid for cash, but has a sort of dim, vague respectability about it somewhere, if he could only find the spot; and that, by and by, he can scour the flag clean again after he has finished dragging it through the mud, and make it shine and flash in the vault of heaven once more as it had shone and flashed there a thousand years in the world's respect until he laid his unfaithful hand upon it. It is bad play — bad. For it exposes the Actual Thing to Them that Sit in Darkness, and they say : "What ! Christian against Christian? And only for money? Is this a case of magnanimity, forbearance, love, gentleness, mercy, protection of the weak — this strange and over-showy onslaught of an elephant upon a nest of field-mice, on the pretext that the mice had squeaked an insolence at him — conduct which 'no self-respecting government could allow to pass unavenged?' as Mr. Chamberlain said. Was that a good pretext in a small case, when it had not been a good pretext in a large one? — for only recently Russia had affronted the elephant three times and survived alive and unsmitten. Is this Civilization and Progress? Is it something better than we already possess?Cont.
>These harryings and burnings and desert-makings in the Transvaal — is this an improvement on our darkness? Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization — one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?" >Then They that Sit in Darkness are troubled, and shake their heads; and they read this extract from a letter of a British private, recounting his exploits in one of Methuen's victories, some days before the affair of Magersfontein, and they are troubled again: >"We tore up the hill and into the intrenchments, and the Boers saw we had them; so they dropped their guns and went down on their knees and put up their hands clasped, and begged for mercy. And we gave it them — with the long spoon." >The long spoon is the bayonet. See Lloyd's Weekly, London, of those days. The same number — and the same column — contained some quite unconscious satire in the form of shocked and bitter upbraidings of the Boers for their brutalities and inhumanities!
For a memoir of one of the American volunteers for the Boers, I recommend Colonel John Young Fillmore Blake,https://archive.org/details/westpointerwithb00blakrichIrish-American who had served as a Cavalryman in the Apache Wars.While there were several American volunteers, the largest body to join at once were 56 Irish-American men from Chicago and Massachusetts who had went over as the American Red Cross Corps, who, as described by Colonel Blake,>[Laid] aside their Red Crosses and [took] up the mauser. These were all good and true men and had the Boers asked them to do Red Cross duty, they would have willingly consented. But they were not needed in this line, so they were equipped for fighting.
Article on Finnish volunteers for the Boershttps://www.finlandatwar.com/finnish-kommandoes-finns-in-the-second-boer-war/
Poles serving in the German Corps, Boer volunteers.
>>65642362Boris Johnson caused this.
>>65642362>They insist on it being justAre these British in the room with us now?
>>65642367This nerd wasn't even a Christian
>>65642362>Do we have enough Ukraine/zigger threads today?>No, let's force the war into EVEN MORE bullshit!
>>65643104apparently
>>65643104
Long Tom love
Anyone that's interested in this war should read pic related. It's a great account of the war, and gives you a first person perspective on what the guerrilla fighting was actually like.
>>65644766fuck forgot the pic lol.
