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- memes@lemmy.ml
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Some environmentalist is sitting in his office right now, just thinking, “Holy shit, they bought it. They actually bought it!”
Hey uhh, Finland… Hi, it’s the Netherlands here. We found that doesnt really work anymore. Didn’t work in 1940, doubt it works now.
But don’t let that stop you!
For the Netherlands to do it properly would put half the country underwater. I think Finland has a much better chance to succeed because they didn’t build most of the country below sea level to start with.
It did work against the Spaniards though in the 80 years war
Could you elaborate on this?
The mud-season and swampiness in eastern Europe definitely were major obstacles for the German invasion forces at the eastern front.
During WW2 (and pretty much every war up to then), the standard Dutch strategy was to break the dikes and flood the land as inundation defenses. It didn’t work very well during WW2, among other things due to airborne drops (which the Germans sucked at, but numbers count), and more modern equipment.
The country who sold all their tanks to us is lecturing us on defence
Getting good things for bad reasons is about the best we can hope for right now.
Lets take it.
On the one hand yeah, on the other: meh – any benefits by doing something good will soon be offset by something twice as bad. Coal powered AI pump and dumps, subsidies to airlines and regional aiports that replace aging railway networks, infinite more lanes on highways.
I think good public policy at this point is putting alcohol and microdoses of barbiturates in the tap water and outlawing good looking people wearing clothes in public. These are achievable goals within any of the political systems currently accessible to us, beating climate change is not.
National defense meets solarpunk?
Mud Wizard!
Oh, this just tickles me.
