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#wartime — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. Blood on Four Flags [historic media map, Java, Indonesia, 1945]
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    davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/d  shared #DavidRumseyMapCollection scanned map
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    “A 1945 Time magazine map by R.M. Chapin Jr turns geopolitics into graphic storytelling. “Blood on Four Flags” shows the Netherlands East Indies as a prize fought over by Dutch, Japanese, British and US interests. Red ink equals blood, islands equal resources, and nationalism..”
    ~ @SimonKuestenmacher
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    #spatial #mapping #Java #Sumatra #Indonesia #cartography #CartographyAsPropaganda #Japanese #Invasion #Dutch #Colony #SEAsia #WorldWar2 #colonialism #naturalresources #oil #sugar #coffee #coal #economy #resources #exploitation #rubber #Netherlands #EastIndies #colony #nationalism #infographic #pictorial #imagery #geopolitics #Soekarnoites #wartime #propaganda
    @Time Magazine

  2. Friday, July 18, 2025

    Explainer: What Russia could achieve in Ukraine by Trump’s 50-day deadline — Germany to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles very soon — Leaked documents claim Russia’s 41st Army suffered ‘catastrophic’ losses fighting in Ukraine — How Russia modified Iran’s Shahed-136 drones and what it means for Ukraine … and more

    activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025