There's a great deal of anecdotes for people in Jamaican cinemas cheering for the U-boats in 1940, when tensions with the Colonial government were high. Less evidence of that in 1942 when the subs were prowling in the Caribbean and tensions...remained high!

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There's some real odd stuff WRT CLR James and the radical black Atlantic set cheering on allied defeats at Bataan and Gazala but their aims seem to have been "allied victory in a weakened form" more than "Axis domination of the world"

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Deeply underestated how the underlying rhetoric of the international anticolonial conversation - from Jamaica to the Philippines - in the 1930s and 40s is "listen we're gonna get the bastards here, but my god we cannot let the fascists win either"

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Honestly, if you told any Jewish or Ukrainian person anywhere in the world at any point in the 20th century that one day a Jew would be President of Ukraine and regarded by the majority of Ukrainians as a national hero, they would think you were psychotic, shitfaced, or high as a kite.

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I was astonished at what the Americans were *publicly* saying in 2022, because it implied a catastrophic counter-intelligence failure for the Russians.

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