Ha, hier zijn we weer. #Minard #Gent #hetuurblauw

@strypey In the basic outlines of history, it seems like it's been the West that attacks (encircles) both Russia and China. For Russia we have that #Minard poster and people from Sweden (@clacke). For China I think the Opium War tells us a lot. My general impression is that the Middle Kingdom wasn't interested enough in other lands to do a lot of invading and trading. But Galeano writes that there were impressive exchanges, it's just that they didn't colonize and make genocidal history...

'... a similarly conceptualized work depicting #Hannibal’s disastrous march from #Spain to #Italy...has almost always been ignored or treated as a separate piece, even though, according to a 1997 paper by Michael Friendly of York University, “it is certain that #Minard meant for them to be compared”... Both show the destructive results of storied, ego-driven commanders leading massive forces out of their element, though on different scales... '
https://edspace.american.edu/visualwar/minard/

@clacke I didn't know anything about a Swedish invasion. Thanks! Thanks to #EdwardTufte 's #BeautifulEvidence where he introduces the "greatest anti-war poster" by #Minard . It is about Napolean's #invasion . I think a search for Minard years ago showed that he did a similar poster of #Hannibal going from #Spain to #Italy that I'm just reading deeply about now.
https://edspace.american.edu/visualwar/minard/
@strypey

Why some people in #Russia might be concerned about #Nato (Controlled by #Germany and #France more than #Greece I guess, not to mention the #USA ) expanding to their borders... It wasn't just the Nazis that invaded and killed millions before leaving in frozen defeat. #EdwardTufte in #BeautifulEvidence says #Minard made the best #antiwar #poster ever. #PaulGoodman in #PacifistFilms says plain documentaries are good, scenes of extreme bloody cruelty just make us think we all deserve to die...

And you wonder why Russia might be a little nervous about Western Europe (or NATO and the USA) moving in, on, and around the Ukraine...
- https://snap.as/bsmall2/books-for-gdm-ideas/vm5h4x0n

#EdwardTufte #BeautifulEvidence #NoMoreWar #WarIsStupid #Minard #CharlesJosephMinard