THIS DAY IN HISTORY – General Patton relieves Allies at Bastogne – 1944

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The Untold Story of Patton at Bastogne

Christmas at Bastogne | National Review

The Race to Bastogne

On December 26, General George S. Patton employs an audacious strategy to relieve the besieged Allied defenders of Bastogne, Belgium, during the brutal Battle of the Bulge.

The capture of Bastogne was the ultimate goal of the Battle of the Bulge, the German offensive through the Ardennes forest. Bastogne provided a road junction in rough terrain where few roads existed; it would open up a valuable pathway further north for German expansion. The Belgian town was defended by the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, which had to be reinforced by troops who straggled in from other battlefields. Food, medical supplies, and other resources eroded as bad weather and relentless German assaults threatened the Americans’ ability to hold out. Nevertheless, Brigadier General Anthony C. MacAuliffe met a German surrender demand with a typewritten response of a single word: “Nuts.”

Enter “Old Blood and Guts,” General Patton. Employing a complex and quick-witted strategy wherein he literally wheeled his 3rd Army a sharp 90 degrees in a counterthrust movement, Patton broke through the German lines and entered Bastogne, relieving the valiant defenders and ultimately pushing the Germans east across the Rhine.

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Anonymous
Anonymous
December 26, 2022 7:03 am

Indeed.

YURI BEZMENOV: DECEPTION WAS MY JOB

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THE FOUR STAGES OF IDEOLOGICAL SUBVERSION – YURI BEZMENOV (1984) (CONDENSED INTERVIEW)

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The Dumbing Down of America
(John Dewey said to socialize, not educate, kids.)
https://chalcedon.edu/magazine/the-dumbing-down-of-america
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John Dewey’s Plan to Dumb-Down America
http://alpha-phonics.weebly.com/uploads/2/4/6/5/24650255/181591329-john-dewey-s-plan-to-dumb-down-america-the-primary-education-fetich-forum-1898.pdf
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Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, by Charlotte Iserbyt:
https://mpnl.org/Dumbing%20Down%20of%20America.pdf

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MORE:
https://www.google.com/search?q=dumbing+down+dewey+iserbyt+chalcedon&source=hp&ei=AA5rY52GGI7Y5NoP99yhwAE&iflsig=AJiK0e8AAAAAY2scEHDvDMRf7gocX159AXr79dIginwV&ved=0ahUKEwidhpazhKD7AhUOLFkFHXduCBgQ4dUDCBA&oq=dumbing+down+dewey+iserbyt+chalcedon&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAxQAFgAYABoAHAAeACAAQCIAQCSAQCYAQA&sclient=gws-wiz
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Dumbing Down – Tavistock Agenda
http://tavistockagenda.iwarp.com/whats_new_12.html
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Dumbing Down Education Key To Dismantling America (Pt. 1)
https://www.gpkmedia.com/opinion/dumbing-down-education-key-to-dismantling-america-pt-1/article_42655f74-7a44-11ec-a491-7f2132cd6569.html
Dumbing Down Education Key to Dismantling America, Pt 2
https://www.gpkmedia.com/opinion/dumbing-down-education-key-to-dismantling-america-pt-2/article_7b63a60c-9b2b-11ec-b3ac-23f92da47e22.html
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“I’ve noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my thirty years of teaching: schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. No one believes anymore that scientists are trained in science classes or politicians in civics classes or poets in English classes. The truth is that schools don’t really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions. Although teachers to care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic — it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”
― John Taylor Gatto, Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling
MORE:
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Iggy
Iggy
December 26, 2022 7:49 am

You see the sorry state of our pathetic country to see how much we’ve lost.

Swrichmond
Swrichmond
December 26, 2022 8:07 am

Look at the top photo. The young man is lightly dressed and is comfortable. The old men are more heavily dressed and are visibly cold.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
  Swrichmond
December 26, 2022 1:38 pm

That enlisted man was ordered to be comfortable …

Warren
Warren
  Swrichmond
December 26, 2022 2:37 pm

That’s Patton’s Aof de Camp, Colonel Charles Codman who is probably about 50 in that picture.
He was a highly decorated WWI fighter pilot who served in France during WWI. After WWI he became a wine buyer and because he spoke fluent French ended up with the US invasion forces that went into French North Africa.
He ended up working for Patton during the North African campaign.
Fascinating person in his own right.

Iggy
Iggy
December 26, 2022 9:07 am

Good think he liberated Bastogne so they could give it to sand niggers 80 years later lol what a fucking joke.

Iggy
Iggy
December 26, 2022 9:09 am

Glad they are flooding this shit hole with spicks they’ll make great cannon fodder.

Anthony Aaron
Anthony Aaron
December 26, 2022 1:37 pm

And then our own government killed the good General Patton … 

LEONIDAS
LEONIDAS
December 26, 2022 2:06 pm

Bastogne Was NOT the ultimate goal of Operation “Watch on The Rhine”(The Bulge). The goal was to retake Antwerp in order to deny use of that city’s harbor for resupplying the Allies.

Warren
Warren
December 26, 2022 2:10 pm

Patton said that we fought on the wrong side. We shouldn’t have even been involved

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Warren
December 26, 2022 6:17 pm

“Go not abroad in search of monsters to destroy”

“Entangling alliances with none”

~ From quotes of the Founders

SGT SNUFFY
SGT SNUFFY
December 26, 2022 11:53 pm

YEP AND MY REGIMENT WAS THE FIRST TANKS INTO BASTOGNE TO RELIEVE THE 101ST AIRBONRE, 37TH ARMOR OH YEAH!!!