Neville Johnstone

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Neville Johnstone

Neville Johnstone

@Johnnyboy833

An old, progressive guy; grateful for being around

Victoria, Australia Katılım Eylül 2015
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Jasmina
Jasmina@Jassmini2·
Me and my lovely daughter Bella , she’s saying hi to you all . Please it cost $0.00 to say Hi 👋 to my daughter it will make our day 😊❤️
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Sony Thăng
Sony Thăng@nxt888·
Here is something American culture cannot process and has spent fifty years refusing to process: Vietnam did not win because of luck. Vietnam did not win because America made mistakes. Vietnam did not win because of Soviet weapons or Chinese support. Vietnam won because Vietnamese people were better at this war than Americans were. Better strategists. Better at understanding the terrain. Better at sustaining morale across decades of unimaginable suffering. Better at building an underground economy of resistance that no bombing campaign could touch. Better at turning every American escalation into a recruitment tool. Better at knowing what they were fighting for and why it was worth dying for. General Võ Nguyên Giáp, who defeated both the French and the Americans, was a history teacher before he was a general. He had no formal military training. He studied the Vietnamese landscape, the Vietnamese people, the psychology of colonial occupiers, and he designed a strategy around all of those things. He understood something American generals, with all their training, all their technology, all their experience, did not understand: This war would be won by whoever could outlast the other side's will to continue. Not firepower. Will. And he was right. He was right about the French. He was right about the Americans. The most powerful military on earth was out-thought by a history teacher from a colonized country. That is not an accident of history. That is not a mistake or a miscalculation. That is what happens when you underestimate people. When you look at a rice farmer and see someone beneath you. When your own arrogance becomes your greatest strategic liability. America's arrogance cost it Vietnam. That arrogance has never been honestly examined. It has never been corrected. Which is why the same pattern keeps repeating in different countries with different names.
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Ayatollah Alireza Arafi
Humanity check IIf you’re scrolling, PLEASE leave a dot.💔
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Sahar
Sahar@Sahar393815·
I am from America ❤ today is my birthday
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Eliana Alice
Eliana Alice@Hazelkeech0918·
I’m a disabled girl, and today I gathered the courage to ask a simple question: “Can I get a hi?”🥹🥲🥲
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Manahil💅
Manahil💅@Noa__sayS·
End of chemo ✨ My wife has won her battle with cancer! 💖❤️ Today, you deserve the happiest birthday 🥳🎂🎉
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Sana khan@Kaylee1780·
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Olivia ♥️
Olivia ♥️@Oliviaxrtx·
sad because i know that most people who see this will scroll past without even saying hi..😢
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Sadiafatma
Sadiafatma@sadiafatma1278·
After ten years of marriage, we finally became parents, but no one even said "congratulations".
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Mahik Rani@MahikRani50377·
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Hafez Ba.🇵🇸
Hafez Ba.🇵🇸@EngHafez189·
I’m Muslim Palestinian 🇵🇸 Israelis and jews are reporting my 𝕏 account. They want to silence me so they can kill my words. If you see this post, please reply a dot. If you would like to support my kids this is the link 👎 gofund.me/e992423f
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