War is just part of the way the world works, like the weather. The great civilizations all managed the problem of collective violence but never seriously tried to eliminate it.

Lost Cause theory is simply stupid.

It’s odd as can be but I can not find a torrent file to download or a place to down load this movie. This is extremely, extremely odd. Especially for something that has so many people seeing it. I would like to see it with english subtitles to see how they handle it.

So, they had the high honor to die holding their posts. A good screenwriter could handle it.

But you can see how close to an anti-America rant it is.

That is the big difference between the US and China — the American Establishment is all-in focusing on all the bad things in US history, to the complete exclusion of the occasional good things. The US Political Class has persuaded so many US residents to be ashamed of their history (and themselves), whereas China’s Political Class is trying to persuade their citizens that there is much to be proud of in their history.

War is Hell — that statement is true and comes from the American Civil War. So are Great Leaps Forward and Cultural Revolutions. But China’s rulers are not trying to tell today’s Chinese that they have Original Sin because of the bad events in China’s past.

I doubt that anywhere in America there are government teachers preaching that war is glorious. And that is a good thing. But history shows that sometimes the very high costs of war are the least bad option. Unfortunately, today’s anti-American Woke US Establishment prefers to sell the lie that the US has been the cause of everything bad in this world — even in 1619, a century & a half before the US existed.

Correct. Chinese probably suffered from the cold worse than the USA military. The Chinese units had to be withdrawn after the battle for refit and did not enter the war after.

Most Americans know the stories of our great victories: D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, etc. It’s a shame that we don’t hear about any of the real slogs, because it might smash the concept of “glorious war” in the minds of our youth forever.

The meat grinder at Hurtgen, or the endless, terrifying slog through the freezing, relentless winter at Chosin, I think, would be better things to teach our kids, than the glorious victories.

In both Hurtgen and Chosin, the Americans eventually accomplished their goals (breaking through the Seigfried Line in the former, and beating a tactical withdrawal without losing combat effectiveness and collapsing the lines at the latter), so this isn’t an anti-America rant. It might just do some good to actually teach about the horrors of real, actual war, so that we aren’t so qick to do it in the future.

You know, like right now with half the damn country clamoring for a civil war that they REALLY DON’T WANT, I PROMISE…

The real point is that official China is proud of China and its history. The contrast with insider America could not be plainer.

Note the movie “Midway” from a couple of years back. Smart dedicated Americans turning the tables on capable Japan in WWII. An American movie, but made with Chinese investors because American studios had no interest in retelling an American success story.

The problem is not China and the Chinese Communist Party. The problem is the foolish US Political Class — and the rest of us, who tolerate their stupidity.