幼女戦記Ⅱ

not downplaying Visha’s role here, but you are forgetting she led that particular interrogation because of Tanya and Tanya looking like a child being a child Tanya claiming she completely missed it is her thinking she’s above propaganda and misinformation. But she isn’t and realistically, no one is. the timeframe isn’t that long either since it was winter when Rerugen’s battalion captured strategic targets, winter when she found out and winter when the not-Italy’s commander visited

how much she hates the commie's since her last life. Is it ever explained why a random 21st century Japanese salaryman has such a virulent hatred of Communism? I can see pre-isekai him having deep philosophical differences, but it seems personal. Given his apparent age and year of death, he'd barely have lived through any part of the Cold War, and most overt Japanese conflicts with the USSR and Russia were several decades before he would have been born.

I don't know what the average Japanese thinks of Communists. But the Salaryman specifically was ideologically a capitalist who believes in free commerce and individualism. Already that puts him diametrically opposed to communists on economic and governance matters. Add to that his interest in history which would have had him come across the absurdly massive and massively absurd communist massacres, abuses, man made catastrophes... In all honestly there is little reason for anyone who investigates the history of Communism to feel any warmth towards them, regardless of personal opinion. They have easily been some of the most evil regimes in history. It's akin to asking why would you hate Nazis.

In all honestly there is little reason for anyone who investigates the history of Communism to feel any warmth towards them, regardless of personal opinion. They have easily been some of the most evil regimes in history. It's akin to asking why would you hate Nazis. That ain't really fair since you'd need to account for all of the US's meddling and fucking around that they did to influence and outright force a lot of the absurdities that happened in Communist countries. If you truly care about history you can't ignore that extremely important part.

And what, are you gonna blame Mao and Stalin's famines on the US? No, not at all, but to ignore the influence the US had is disingenuous at best and outright propagandist at worst. I know more about the USSR situation and while it did spout out a lot of communist stuff at the end of the day it just devolved into a social imperial state. A communist state cannot be an imperial one. From it's very inception the USSR wasn't really a communist state. Calling it a communist nation and blaming communism and communists for what happened is pretty much spouting propaganda without studying and learning wtf happened. Also don't forget that there can be shit people that are communists, and there are loads, just like there are shit people that are capitalists, there are loads here too. Now on Mao's side I have to admit that I'm much more ignorant about it. I just know the gist of it and what the typical American talking points are, but honestly that's the same as having a geo political conversation in a pub full of drunkards so I'll refrain on touching this particular topic.

I really love to read history and I feel much warmth for communists. Not for the bastards on the top, but for the common people and the great victiories of unions (and the great sacrificies they did). They are also the reason why most of the world have universal healthcare, women's rights, and many many other things we take for granted today. In my country (Italy) they fought really fiercely to give us a better life, and they were very distant from the soviet version of communism. Not saying this because I think that you are wrong in your opinion, just to say that it is not an universal feeling Edit: downvoted after saying an opinion in a cordial way, lol

Just to be clear I didn't downvote you. I think that's a fair opinion. I would only question how fundamentally these smaller groups really were from the ones that were successful, if they would be any different had they taken power. Of course, that's just a hypothetical, so we'll never know for sure. But in general I'd excercise a degree of skepticism. Even the USSR had it's good points. Didn't stop it from being what it was.

The Salaryman had a set of absolutely non-negotiable beliefs: Personal freedoms are the highest ideal A capitalist economy is the best system The government should regulate society and the markets to keep things stable, but it was also the duty of every citizen to exploit those laws for personal advantage and loopholes as much as possible. Any ideology that breaks one of those is an absolute no-go for the Salaryman.

The PRC always threatens to invade Taiwan and has disputes with Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu islands. China is absolutely the biggest threat to Japan and they're communists so Japanese tend to view Communists as Chinese agents. Couple that with the fact that he's a salaryman through and through who'd have a very neoliberal capitalist view and the communism of this era produced nothing but massacres and genocides.

Implicitly, at least in the anime. Tanya mentioned stuff like 'Chicago school of economics' and 'free market principles.' Tanya's ethics are clearly adherant towards libertarian philosophy, which tends to correlate very strongly with individualism and thinking private property, laissez-faire economics, and individual rights are the basis of a well-functioning society and even ethics. Tanya's animosity towards them is probably actually quite similar to their rejection of Being X-that of a violent, aggressive tyrant. The various libertarian types who advocate for that kind of economic system tend to think of communism as the far opposite extreme of the political compass from themselves, and both often consider the other evil.

Yeah, this was a case of it clearly being Tanya screwing herself over. I think the number of interventions X has made is probably actually in the single-digits; most of it is Tanya's and humans' own doing, even if the few interventions X made were very drastic. Not only PTSD, Tanya knows that she is still subject to his insanity. Someone being deranged is one thing, them being deranged and you being forced to follow their derangement is wholly another.

Because it carries a person it's way bigger than a normal torpedo which probably means a bigger payload. Also, Schügel did some fuck ass holy magic to make sure they detonate below the keel of the target, creating a sudden bubble that then raises and collapses which is like a triple critical hit upon the ship as it raises it over a single point plus two overpressure waves. This was impossible to achieve at the time because most torpedoes were just dumb go in a straight line and explode when you hit something. But every modern torpedo does it when attacking a ship. Here's a famous clip from the recent conflict with Iran. You can see how the attack literally breaks the ship's back.

From what I see, to parallel read world battle, the closes is Tanya sub took out Admiral Cunningham's entire Mediterranean fleet. Admiral Cunningham fleet that won Battle of Cape Matapan consist of 3 Battleship and 1 Aircraft Carrier. What is shown in the anime is at least 1 battleship and 1 carrier getting sunk with a 1 hit 1 kill under-keel explosion. Based on that, the number of ship sunk would probably be the same as the number of Mage Trops in the water. And that is not to mention Tanya's secondary Destroyer hunt like a bunch of angry Attack Helicopter. So putting things into perspective, the non-UK probably lost their entire Mediterranean fleet or crippled it throughoutly. The series is fun as all those battles parallel many real world events from WW2 or other modern wars and it is fun to see Tanya win them one by one. Now we can check off Battle of Cape Matapan as a Empire's victory.

It would worrk only if they make it look like it was an attack from the allied kingdom, the federation or other nations fighting against the Empire. In that case Ildoa would be forced into war. Maybe the flamboyant entrance in Ildoa's port this episode was meant to give plausibility to such a reaction from the Empire's enemies. Though I'm not really convinced myself that they were really talking about bombing Roma instead of Berlint. There's also the whole issue that it's not so easy to make a nation believe they have been attacked by another country. Is there even a real life precedent of this?

Hmm... I think you are right about most but I think you are forgetting something, the politicians rejected the peace proposal from the military and demanded them for continuing the war with victory, ofc zettour and rest of Strategic HQ knew it was impossible to continue the war and he tried to speak against it but redendorf accepted the ridiculous task and planned the operation Andromeda. Now from my thought process this is what I think: Why redendorf accepted the impossible task? I think he also knew it was impossible but if he had let zettour talk and rejected them, there would be some heads rolling, as I understand military strategic HQ themselves does not have a direct contact with the Imperial Family and so Politicians are probably the proxy which relays the wishes and interests of the imperial family, so rejecting them was like rejecting the imperial family's wishes, so that's that. Why a reckless Operation named Andromeda? Probably bcz it was meant to fail from the start, there was never a chance of actually defeating the Russy Federation which is getting support from the Allied kingdom, and the volunteers from the United States and also getting pushed back by the Republic from the Northern Africa. The Empire had no supplies, no manpower and was running on fumes. What did Rurgen and zettour hinted to Tanya? I think the strategic HQ which by definition can be seen as Military Faction has decided that the Politicians and the Imperial Family are too drunk on victory and must be woken up, so Strategic HQ or the Military as a whole must have decided that a little staged attack on the Empire's capital will wake the politicians that even the capital is not safe so they must hurry with peace proposal rather than war. And about public opinion, I think they have been given so much propaganda that if even a little bit truth from the frontlines were to be revealed by enemy spies or by accident there would be rebellion and civil war across the Empire. So either way HQ must have decided it's worth a shot. Will Tanya participate if such were to occur? Probably yes, Tanya is a soldier and a soldier's duty is to carry out the order given by the strategic HQ, obviously she will have to make a choice herself. From a broader perspective she might participate as it is for the Empire's future.