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Was the Rhodesian Army the Most Effective in History? - The Abandoned Army
Youtube.com Video ^ | 05/1/2024 | The Front Video

Posted on 05/25/2025 3:39:24 PM PDT by Pol-92064

The Rhodesian Bush War.

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KEYWORDS: africa; bush; rhodesia; rhodsia; war
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The Rhodesian Army was the best counter guerrilla force against communists in Africa in the 1960's & 1970's
1 posted on 05/25/2025 3:39:24 PM PDT by Pol-92064
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To: Pol-92064

Ian Smith was a good man, ultimately he wanted to incorporate the blacks into Rhodesian society, but it wasn’t going to happen overnight.


2 posted on 05/25/2025 3:41:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Everyone knew what was going to happen. Intellectuals are unnecessary. Perhaps a Captain Obvious.


3 posted on 05/25/2025 3:56:57 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: Pol-92064; lightman; Navy Patriot

Britain and the USA abandoned Rhodesia. The worst was the Carter administration, especially Andrew Young.

.......n 1979, Young played a leading role in advancing a settlement in Rhodesia with Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, who had been two of the rebel leaders in the Rhodesian Bush War, which had ended in 1979. The settlement paved the way for Mugabe to take power as Prime Minister of the newly formed Republic of Zimbabwe......

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Young

We all know who happened under Mugabe. Tribal warfare, corruption, and massive starvation. But Carter, Young, and all the “do-gooders” got their black-majority rule “justice”. Phooey to them all!


4 posted on 05/25/2025 4:06:11 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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Britain and the USA abandoned Rhodesia.

Just honing their Backstabbing skills for use on UK and US Citizens.

5 posted on 05/25/2025 4:12:43 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (President Trump Decisively Won Popular & E.C., Celebrate Recivilization!)
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6 posted on 05/25/2025 4:36:26 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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7 posted on 05/25/2025 4:37:09 PM PDT by lapsus calami (What's that stink? Code Pink ! ! And their buddy Murtha, too!)
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To: Pol-92064

Nope, it was Genghis Khan’s cavalry.


8 posted on 05/25/2025 4:43:41 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes (Only thing that scares me now is my age number. I am older than Biden, but in very good health!)
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To: lapsus calami

The Rhodesian Army had quite a lot of black troops.
The middle class blacks and the traditional tribal areas didn’t like the socialist/communists trying to take over. The Western press made it into a black white racist war, at least the coverage was slanted that way. It was nothing like South Africa. The legislature was moving to equitable representation. The British didn’t like the fact that Rhodesia was charting a path was not dictated by the Home Office.


9 posted on 05/25/2025 5:08:09 PM PDT by Waverunner
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They Lost and so did the people, black and white, in Rhodesia. Race hate killed them as it is now killing South Africa.


10 posted on 05/25/2025 5:17:36 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I couldn’t imagine leaving the country my parent and grandparents came from, and that I was born in. All I have to say to the Africans who want to legally immigrate to America. “ WELCOME, almost all our ancestors did it, and so can you”.


11 posted on 05/25/2025 5:51:00 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Waverunner

How does importing even more third world people help America?


12 posted on 05/25/2025 6:02:36 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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The ones that will leave are the productive members who get tired of a government that just takes from them, their liberty, their wealth, their children. Hey as they said in Blazing Saddles, to paraphrase to avoid sensitivities, even the Irish can contribute.


13 posted on 05/25/2025 6:10:14 PM PDT by Waverunner
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To: Pol-92064
Luke 21:35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth. 36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Christians have to remember that this is not our final home. We all may have to escape our home countries at one point or another.
14 posted on 05/25/2025 6:17:30 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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What an idiotic thing to think, and even worse to say, you sound like one of the idiots that supported JFK’s anti-America immigration changed passed by his party in 1965 after his death.

We have your immigration policy now, and you like this modern America?


15 posted on 05/25/2025 6:21:06 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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No we don’t, we just had 4 years of uncontrolled immigration by the Biden administration. American can absorb about 1.5 million skilled immigrants a year. I’m sure your family tree is impeccable with a lineage that goes back to the great migration at the end of the ice age. Mine were sold into servitude by the English crown as debtors after the brits took Scotland. They were indentured and served in Oglethorpe’s Regiment of Foot. Not from around here originally. Made it our home. Fought to hold it. Not everyone was conjured here by the great and powerful OZ.


16 posted on 05/25/2025 6:34:32 PM PDT by Waverunner
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You are still supporting mass immigration, and from the third world no less, just like we have had since 1965, incredible.


17 posted on 05/25/2025 6:40:21 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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Last time I checked my math, 1,500,000 was less than 0.5% population growth. Hardly mass migration.


18 posted on 05/25/2025 6:47:37 PM PDT by Waverunner
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It is mass immigration of the most damaging immigration possible.

We need to end all immigration except for a few thousand administrative imports for scientists, defectors and minor cleanup of special cases.

It is hard to believe you support this immigration that destroyed us and makes us unable to ever recover.


19 posted on 05/25/2025 6:51:41 PM PDT by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Pol-92064

BFL


20 posted on 05/25/2025 10:03:30 PM PDT by The FIGHTIN Illini ("Let Us Never Forget What They Have Done")
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