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British troops in French Equatorial Africa, c. 1954
Following the armistice between Nazi Germany and Great Britain after the disaster at Dunkirk, Britain continued to attempt to sabatoge Nazi Germany's hold on Europe by supporting governments in exile of occupied nations. Charles de Gaulle's Free French Forces were some of the most effective resistance forces, and by 1941 Vichy France and Free France were fighting for control of French colonies.
Throughout the 1940s, the Nazi regime was primarily focused on the destruction of the Soviet Union, something that it achieved in 1946 when the socialist state collapsed due to a two front war against Germany's Operation Barbarossa and Japan's Hokushin-ron offensives. With its greatest geopolitical rival destroyed, Germany began sending advisors and supplies to Vichy France forces in Africa to keep their ally afloat. Soon, the war in French West Africa and French Equatorial Africa became a proxy war between Britain and Germany, though neither side directly intervened against the other.
That changed in 1953, when Vichy forces began conducting raids into British Cameroon to interrupt Free French supply routes. Prime Minister Richard Butler sent troops to Cameroon for "defense", but almost immediatly offensive operations began in an effort to drive Vichy France out of central Africa. However, the war became a quagmire, as the British troops found themselves not only fighting Vichy soldiers (almong with their colonial auxillaries and German advisors), but also pro-independence African rebels who were opposed to all European control, whether Free France or Vichy France.
A poster for Aardman Animations' 2018 reboot of Nickelodeon's Rugrats
(I did this because the show looks like it's made of clay)
US Marines in M99 Urban and M81 Woodland during the Battle of Brisbane (July 3 - 8, 1999) during the Operation Peatland Arrow (1998-2002).
Operation Peatland Arrow was the NATO operation name of the 3rd Atlantean Conflict. Said conflict, lasting from November 19, 1998 to October 8, 2002, was an attempted revolution in and secession of the 5 American states of Atlantis (capital: Brisbane), Meropis (capital: Constantinople), New Lancaster (capital: Pleasantville), Tasmania (capital: New Amsterdam), and Franklin (capital: Presidia) by an ultranationalist insurgency of the indigenous Mayda peoples (descendants of various early European, African, and Indigenous American peoples, often known simply as Aboriginal Atlanteans) looking for the independence of the subcontinent, known as the Liberation and Defense Force of Mu. (Mu is the indigenous name of Atlantis)
Multiple other insurgencies done in response, notably one by the extremely peculiar Atlantean Free Corps, a Strasserist white supremacist paramilitary with links to both the Ku Klux Klan and the Russian National Bolshevik Party, led to the beginning of what could only be described as "The Troubles on steroids".
The most notorious event in the conflict's history was the seizure of a silo of a Minuteman III nuclear missile by the Army of Supreme Truth, a militia directly linked to Aum Shinrikyo. The seizure lead to the issuing of an Emergency Action Notification, despite every attempt of the militiamen to launch the missiles failing due to the complete lack of missile launch experience of every single member of the militia.
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One Day in September is a 2007 alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove. The point of divergence occurs when President Bill Clinton decides not to conduct the bombing raid in Afghanistan on August 20, 1998 that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. This leads to a strengthened Al-Qaeda that conducts a terrorist attack in the United States on September 13, 2001 (referred to as 9/13 or September 13th in the book) involving crashing civilian airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the U.S. Capitol building. President George W. Bush launches a global "War on Terror" in response and is easily re-elected in 2004. The book leaves off at the narrator's present day (September 13, 2011), the 10th anniversary of the attacks, when President Hillary Clinton announces the end of a successful operation that has killed bin Laden, though it is implied the War on Terror is still ongoing in several parts of the world, including Korea, Iraq, Venezuela, Chechnya, and Sudan.
The book was generally received warmly, though it was also criticized for being overly-political and left-leaning.
Colorized version of a photo gave PLA soldier in the border of Hong Kong funny shoes for 1949.
Another version, from CGTN. To show the contrast.
Another version, from CGTN. To show the contrast.
Sony's Captain America
Captain America was a 2000 war and superhero movie directed by Kevin Costner and starring Tom Cruise, he plays Steven Rogers, an experimental american super soldier who gets sent to Europe during WW2
Tom Cruise on set, 1999
Captain America was a 2000 war and superhero movie directed by Kevin Costner and starring Tom Cruise, he plays Steven Rogers, an experimental american super soldier who gets sent to Europe during WW2
Tom Cruise on set, 1999
With success of Tim Burton Mars Attack
Warner wanted a sequel, Burton show no interest in this.
To his dismay, the Warner Management had idea, for a crossover with unused franchise,
After attempt to make a movie failed in 1994...
Warner wanted a sequel, Burton show no interest in this.
To his dismay, the Warner Management had idea, for a crossover with unused franchise,
After attempt to make a movie failed in 1994...
Mars Attack 2: We are back!
This looks like it would be worth watching. In my opinion, the original Mars Attacks was not,With success of Tim Burton Mars Attack
Warner wanted a sequel, Burton show no interest in this.
To his dismay, the Warner Management had idea, for a crossover with unused franchise,
After attempt to make a movie failed in 1994...
Mars Attack 2: We are back!
I would rather be dragged naked across a field of broken glass than see that film again. Words cannot describe how much I hated that movie, it made Plan 9 from Outer Space look like an epic example of the movie maker's art.
Kenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell appearing in an advertisement for their Comedy Central show Mitchell and Thompson (initially planned to be called Kenan and Kel before Nickelodeon issued a cease and desist letter). The series has often been described as provocative since it's first season, with sketches often focusing on racial and political issues.
The picture isn't showing up.Sony's Captain America
Captain America was a 2000 war and superhero movie directed by Kevin Costner and starring Tom Cruise, he plays Steven Rogers, an experimental American super soldier who gets sent to Europe during WW2
Tom Cruise on set, 1999
same thing for me with 1995 Judge Dredd
you need not see this...
...take 2012 DREDD instead
Now if only there was a Dredd movie that had the story telling of 2012 Dredd combined with the aesthetic of 1995.
The Imgur caption says "The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available". The image itself isn't showing up.
Damn, I forgot to edit the date, it supposed to be Jan 2024
Ignore it
Inspired by @JCC the Alt Historian unicorn infoboxes
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