said to get a ”key" to heaven if they fought in the war
Wow. That's such a different kind of lie than the ones we tell people to get them to enlist.
this sounded weird so i looked it up, and it seems to be a sort of mistranslation, iranian soldiers were given a booklet of pamphlets called "Keys to Paradise" along their dogtags https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_key_to_paradise
In America you get the key to a Dodge Charger 😎
Dodge Charger > Key to heaven
As a person brought up Catholic I can imagine how that would work
Iranian child soldier: hey Pete, I have a key, let me open the gate
Pete on the gate: sorry dude. That's a dud key. Only the successors to me get to issue real keys, and my reps on Earth discontinued indulgences since 1667.
Pete: also you chose the wrong religion. You weren't even baptised. Sorry to say you're off to purgatory for a few kiloyears (Iran uses metric, right?) to pay for your bad choices, murder, and not getting your dick cut or getting baptised
As a reformed Catholic I'm pretty sure the kids gets what everyone gets: nothing
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Having cold war era advanced armament yet somehow ending up with trench warfare and gas attacks...
cold war era advanced armament
trench warfare
My noncredible friend in christ, that is actually happening right now in Ukraine.
Similarly mind blowing though.
War, war never changes, from sticks and spears, to arrows and bullets, the old and bitter send the young and dumb to kill each other for their interests.
PACIFISM DETECTED IN NCD
But it led to arguably the COOLEST combat engineering ever - Iraq destroyed all the roads through a marsh and ELECTRIFIED THE MARSH when a column of soldiers came through.
Yeaaah...coooool...😬
The Iran/Iraq border is mountainous, the Zagros mountain range. Easy to fortify, hard to attack.
Closest analogue to what's going on in Ukraine. Dictator launches big, bold invasion, gets stopped, pushback offensive that doesn't really go anywhere. Both sides get desperate and start doing crazy shit. Lots of people die for nothing. US defense contractors make bank.
At risk of being too credible the Ukraine side did keep Russia out of Kiev, and the US military industrial complex really needs the practice on the industrial side.
If US industry makes bank keeping Ukraine alive for one more week, then consider that they're also getting America into a better position for opposing the bad countries of the near future
I don't care who making money if it helps defend from Russian invasion
How'd you define 'bad countries'
yep they definitely gave out plastic keys to 8 year olds to conscript them, nothing racist going on here.
Of course it's a lemmy.ml user.
