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Back before trigger discipline was a thing.

I had a client who was South Afrikaner and was a mercenary soldier in Rhodesia. He was scary because he radiated his death skills and talked about them, though in a non-menacing way. He said he had to leave because he 'crushed the trachea' of an abusive superior officer who was on his case leading to early retirement by fleeing.

He also had a very strange girl friend and the pair of them were so zippy and exotic, I don't know if I have ever quite run across anybody like them since. She was loaded, so I guess she liked to run with him as a bad boy.

https://x.com/Will_Tanner_1/status/1924950255176651028

The reason for our present dysfunction can be seen in the reaction to what Rhodesia PM Ian Smith once said about decolonization, and the truth of his words. He said:

“If blacks are to rule themselves, people in towns will walk on sewage until they believe it’s normal, all the gains from colonization will vanish, infrastructure will collapse, roads will be impassable, trains will kill people until they’re abandoned as an usable mode of transport, hospitals will be closed, farms will be grabbed and nothing to feed the people.”

Of course, all that came to pass. Rhodesia was a hugely successful country in every respect, particularly in the realm of preserving a unique and beautiful culture while also ensuring living standards and economic growth for blacks and whites remained on the upswing until Mugabe wrecked it. And wreck it he did, with the result that everything that was once built and once successful was wrecked. The infrastructure survived the Bush War, and was even relatively good during that war, but couldn't survive a few years of race communism.