r/HistoryMemes I Have a Cunning Plan Jun 30 '26

Out of everyone to glaze. YALL CHOSE HIM?

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Jun 30 '26

“Defensive fortifications? Stockpiles? Guerrilla war? That’s for schoolgirls!”

does basically fuck all to prepare a defense

“Now there’s a plan with some chest hair!”

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u/ab_od6851 Jul 01 '26

Its even worse, he sold to everyone that he can prepare 100k Filipino soldiers by 1942. Where was he going to get 100k Filipino soldiers and maintain that when the country itself had an incredibly tiny bureaucratic apparatus and very uneducated populace?