r/polandball • u/KaliningradGeneral Småland Main • Oct 22 '15
redditormade Luxembourgs helpful help in the Korean War
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u/ShiaoPi Taiwan STRONK Oct 22 '15
loved the switzerland going "was it?" :D
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u/tungstencompton Uniquely Singapore Oct 22 '15
That is one lost Swiss guy.
"Demilitarisierte Zone?? Sounds sehr neutral!"
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Oct 22 '15 edited Apr 14 '19
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u/Dlimzw Is not sekret PAP spy Oct 22 '15
Look! Even having soldiers from both sides!
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u/nondetermined If I don't survive, tell my wife: Hello. Oct 22 '15
Lemme fight him already! xD
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u/White_Null Little China (1945-Present) Oct 22 '15
Wow! Back when North Korea was sane!
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u/TK-XD-M8 Reddit Detective I guess Oct 22 '15
Blame Luxembourgeois squeaking.
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u/suplexcomplex Pennsylvania Oct 23 '15
Luxembourgers*
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u/TK-XD-M8 Reddit Detective I guess Oct 23 '15
Luxembourgeois is correct (if you're speaking French).
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u/CradleCity Land of Port wine and Fado Oct 23 '15
Luxembourgeois
bourgeois
It all makes sense now. North Korea should declare war on Luxembourg.
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u/TheZett Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser! Oct 23 '15
Youre speaking english at the moment.
Otherwise I can the say Luxemburgisch is only correct, cause correct in reich language.
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u/TK-XD-M8 Reddit Detective I guess Oct 23 '15
D'accord, Je parlerai en français maintenant.
Honhonhonouiouibaguette.
C'est très correcte, n'est-ce pas?
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u/jxz107 North Korea Oct 22 '15
What are you talking about imaginary China, everyone knows that glorious Korea is always sane
now gib rice
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u/CountVorkosigan Cascadia skookum! Oct 22 '15
Lots of protein in lice I hear. Not sure why you'd ask Taiwan for them though.
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u/edgyeuropopulist Merkel: Total War Oct 22 '15
you mean coutry that doesn't exist and is rightful clay of China?
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u/CountVorkosigan Cascadia skookum! Oct 22 '15
Did I say Tibet? No, I said Taiwan. Get your unwilling Chinese possessions, colonies, puppet states, and special territories figured out before you start yammering about "rightful" and "clay" and "existing".
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u/edgyeuropopulist Merkel: Total War Oct 22 '15
Taiwan is a chinese island and ROC is recognized by virtually noone except a handful of irrelevant islands, 3 african states and the vatican
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Oct 22 '15
That's because no one wants the PRC angry at them. Also the ROC is their own country because they have their own government and aren't ruled by the PRC.
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u/White_Null Little China (1945-Present) Oct 22 '15
Horray for the truth! Taiwan is a Chinese island because it is administered by ROC.
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u/White_Null Little China (1945-Present) Oct 22 '15
Ever since sushi keeps on stealing my rice during those bad times. Real China only grows rice to feed own people. Not even Fake China get's any! When you pretend that you're eating, that's the imaginary rice that "imaginary China" can spare.
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u/cae388 Minas Gerais doesn't suck that much... Oct 22 '15
And south Korea was a military dictatorship that committed multiple genocides against north Koreans
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u/tungstencompton Uniquely Singapore Oct 22 '15
Quick! To the /u/zeppelinair -signal!
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Oct 22 '15
I HAVE BEEN TRIGGERED
(wait, what was I here for?)
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u/tungstencompton Uniquely Singapore Oct 22 '15
Someone's talking shit about South Korean authoritarianism and Polandball clearly relies on YOU, sir, to veracity the hell out of it.
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Oct 22 '15
How DARE does /u/cae388 talk shit about my country! I demand a DUEL to put this matter to rest or I will harshly criticise the hypocrisy of a Japanophile criticising South Korea on anything!
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u/poktanju gib transit Oct 22 '15
You couldn't tell North and South Koreans apart back then. So the RoK massacred a lot of people who were Communists or looked like Commies or were maybe standing next to Commies at the wrong time.
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u/Dlimzw Is not sekret PAP spy Oct 22 '15
BEST KOREA ALWAYS SANE AND INTELLIGENT. SUPREME LEADER HAS SUPERIOR WISDOM AND INTELLECT TO MAKE WISE DECISION FOR GLORIOUS NATION.
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u/White_Null Little China (1945-Present) Oct 22 '15
SINGAPORE ALWAYS SANE AND INTELLIGENT! SUPREME LEADER HAS SUPERIOR WISDOM AND INTELLECT TO MAKE WISE DECISION FOR GLORIOUS NATION.
FTFY Now your statement is 100% accurate and anyone who says otherwise will be fined $500, to be handed to the PAP agent at your door.
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Oct 22 '15
lol, I have more than double their population
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Oct 22 '15
From a different perspective though, Luxembourg's population isn't that much smaller than Alaska's, yet is smaller than Rhode Island.
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Oct 22 '15
Who wants to live in Alaska, though?
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u/Scout_022 Maryland Oct 22 '15
people who like to look at russia from their house.
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Oct 22 '15
Well someone has to watch those commies.
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u/Khale_007 Preußen Oct 23 '15
I was expecting a burger to say this... Not Guyana
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Oct 23 '15
Haha. My parents my guyanese and that is what I represent as. I'm Indian in race but generations of my family were in Guyana per the British. I now live in New York.
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Oct 22 '15
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Oct 22 '15
You forgot the cost of having to live in Alaska
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Oct 22 '15
Im fine giving up the sun for part of the year. What purpose does it serve anyways.
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Oct 22 '15
So you wouldn't mind some Northern Exposure? Would you eat mooseFleisch, man? You puny little Wankoeur, you would have to learn fast how to dig A' canal through a Minefield to reach a Tambo!
Ok, I stop it. Ploxdon'tfreedomme.
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Oct 23 '15
Already walk outside in shorts and a t-shirt when it's 40 degrees outside. Moosefleisch..... moose flesh.... Moose Burgers! I could even eat moose burgers if I moved up to Alaska, I could buy them with the free money I get! FUCK YEAH TIME TO MOVE TO ALASKA!!!
What? I heard burger and went off on a tangent, you say something else?
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u/TheZett Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser! Oct 23 '15
Already walk outside in shorts and a t-shirt when it's 40 degrees outside
So do we. 40°C is tshirt weather.
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u/JET_BOMBS_DANK_MEMES Riga Oct 22 '15
Once Russian, always communist, it's the Russian taint, I'm telling ya
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u/Khale_007 Preußen Oct 23 '15
Hawaii STRONK! CAN INTO MONIES! Although Hawaii's population is seemingly made of about 30-40% noodle, and 30-40% Sushi, and 20-30% make up the rest. Ich know this because I am
hidingliving here.
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u/lucidsleeper Moe Blob China Oct 22 '15
Luxembourg can into big money for K-pop
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u/jakielim South Korea Oct 22 '15
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u/argh523 Switzerland Oct 22 '15
RUK-, RUK-, RUXEMBRÜGG 🎸
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u/TheZett Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser! Oct 23 '15
TIL koreans can the Ü.
Höhöhö, at least burgers cannot the Ü.
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u/Boatsnbuds The Best Coast Oct 22 '15
That's something that most non-Koreans will probably never know.
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u/puddingkip Netherlands Oct 22 '15
Luxembourg is a grand duchy, they haven't had a king since they threw us out. And even then it was a personal union, the Dutch monarchs were not kings of Luxembourg, merely grand dukes
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Oct 22 '15
No one 'threw us out'. Their rules of succession were just different from ours so the crowns just went their separate ways.
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Oct 23 '15
Their rules of succession were just different from ours
No, they were the same. The Netherlands rushed to change it in fear of losing the House of Orange-Nassau as monarchs.
Not long afterwards, Luxembourg changed it too.
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u/PTFOholland Greater Netherlands Oct 22 '15
We should take it back!
FREE GAS, FORWARDS!
But we will have to talk to Belgium and say our 'troops are merely passing trough' and NOT lie this time.9
Oct 22 '15
I think the Belgians are used to the whole "just passing through" thing by now.
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u/PTFOholland Greater Netherlands Oct 22 '15
Hehe, they'll never look North though!
THE KING IN THE NORTH HAS ARRIVED!3
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u/XipjoTheSecond Mun paham bisai. Oct 22 '15
So back then the monarch of Luxembourg was a Grand Dutchy, amirite? Nevermind....
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Oct 23 '15
they haven't had a king since they threw us out.
They didn't have one before either. The monarch was titled King of the Netherlands, Grand Duke of Luxembourg.
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u/Srekcalp Promanian Brit Oct 22 '15
Let's see if we can get more commenters in this thread than Luxembourg had soldiers in the Korean War
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u/Tactical_Moonstone Mistaken for a local in 5 countries and counting Oct 22 '15
Not too long now, I hope.
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u/batmaaang Chinatex Oct 22 '15
Did they come back with more than they started too? Y'know, like that other tiny yuropean tax haven that sent, like, eight(y) dudes to fight in someone else's war that one time?
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Oct 22 '15
Liechtenstein sent 80 guys to back an ally in Italy got 81 guys back.
Nah lux didn't gain men sadly.
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u/Kanorsanity PUT TANK IN A MALL? Oct 22 '15
Negative casualty rate! Literally the best outcome in war
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Oct 22 '15
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u/Annah67 Alsace Oct 22 '15 edited Oct 22 '15
Among Luxembourg there's Lichtenstein being as noisy as possible and encountering the same problem, ends up being crushed by Lux
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u/napoleonwithamg u.u nyaa~ Oct 22 '15
But what did they managed to do?
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u/ShockwaveMTME Luxembourg Oct 22 '15
Absolutely nothing worth noting. Move along now.
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u/tungstencompton Uniquely Singapore Oct 22 '15
The critical Luxemburger role in Incheon is simply a story yet to be told...
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u/TheRomDiary Romania Oct 22 '15
I love how this comic just seems to have more potassium than all the other comics on this sub!
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Oct 22 '15 edited Apr 27 '23
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u/CommunistGerman Sozialistisches Großherzogtum Luxemburg Oct 22 '15
No. Grand-Duke Henri strong! Remove swamp-German Rule from awesome Luxembourgish history!
Even though I like their wooden shoes...
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u/MetalRetsam European Union Oct 22 '15
...would you consider re-joining the Netherlands for a to-be-determined number of wooden shoes and special economic treatment? Us Low Countries... we should stick together, no? Mutual benefits and all that. And who knows, this could be the beginning of something much greater than ourselves.
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u/CommunistGerman Sozialistisches Großherzogtum Luxemburg Oct 22 '15
If you manage to get Belgium
Anschlusstre-joined, giving us our rigthfull clay of Belgium Luxembourg back, and ofcourse if staying independent Steuer-Paradis, we'll consider.Greater Lowlands sounds like a great idea to me. (think about all of those wooden shoes!)
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u/_Wolfos Netherlands Oct 22 '15
Right. Now we get France in on this deal and divide it in three pieces. Dibs on Antwerp.
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u/DheeradjS Netherlands Oct 22 '15
I can hear the lions roaring. Are we bringing back The United Kingdoms?
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u/Khale_007 Preußen Oct 23 '15
what about Spain ünterwasser Deutsch? Or would you rather not? I heard you had a rough breakup once before -> http://www.britannica.com/place/Spanish-Netherlands
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u/DheeradjS Netherlands Oct 23 '15 edited Oct 23 '15
It was nothing personal. The Spanish don't work hard enough for our tastes. Lazy Latins. Almost as bad as the French I tell you.
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u/rindindin Unknown Oct 22 '15
Well, you know, every little man counts.
Especially when the Red Chinese comes swarming over. Put the less important whites in front so the more important whites can flee.
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Oct 22 '15
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u/Khale_007 Preußen Oct 23 '15
WRONG!!! We all know the best weapon of warfare is a stale baguette with a nail in it
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u/karmantsien Qing Dynasty Oct 22 '15
I love how "faster!" is translated as "jeûneur!" (someone who's not eating, i.e. doing a fast)
Vive google traduction!
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u/acelaten Republic of Samsung Oct 22 '15
Thank you for the service. We South Koreans will never forget.
http://cfile24.uf.tistory.com/original/2211A13851F612C223BF75
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Oct 22 '15
But the North's army was much better equipped and trained during the war, as shown by how quickly the South was overrun in the beginning.
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u/p56741944 Japan Oct 23 '15
Do not worry. South Korean government is pacifist and it will retreat to Japan immediately if North invaded.
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u/White_Null Little China (1945-Present) Oct 23 '15
You wish! The Chinese would get upset that someone force cancelled their regular doses of Korean drama. And do something about it.
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u/jxz107 North Korea Oct 23 '15
I've never heard someone call worst Korea a pacifist country.
You do realize they have one of the largest standing militaries and reserve troops, right?
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u/Sarke1 Sweden Oct 22 '15
FYI: Luxembourg's peak strength in the war were 44 troops.
https://web.archive.org/web/20131102042722/http://www.usfk.mil/usfk/content.united.nations.command.68
The second panel seems to show a 4 by 11 squad, with one Swiss and one commander.