finally someone evil

[ladymuck]

Mladic

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/27/ratko-mladic-the-butcher-of-bosnia-dies-aged-84

There is a dead dictators thread here somewhere but evidently not enough of them die

 

[cojak]

We are all waiting for the other shoe to drop (AKA When It Happens).

 

[DoctorStrangelove]

We are all waiting for the other shoe to drop (AKA When It Happens).

Wot? The Orange shoe? Askin' for a friend. .

 

[willendure]

"All borders are drawn in blood" was a brutally astute line though.

 

[DoctorStrangelove]

The Putney Pusher (allegedly but since the alleged one est mort the mother****er can't sue).

 

[NotAllThere]

"All borders are drawn in blood" was a brutally astute line though.

Weren't some drawn with a ruler by some minion of the British Empire? The blood came as a result.

 

[DoctorStrangelove]

'Twas the Race for Africa innit.

The conference in Berlin in 1885/6 had a hand in some of it.

IIRC the top bit of Uganda is a straight line because the surveyors got fed up & legged it to somewhere more conducive.

Not forgetting Syria, Lebanon, Eyerack etc. Some pretty straight lines around there.

And the 49th parallel. The Orange Mother****er's favourite line that he wants to remove. .

 

[ladymuck]

The 49th parallel that divides US and Canada? I was just reading about that yesterday. Very bonkers.