Comments by "Winston Smith" (@kryts27) on "The Strangest Foreign Fighters in History | Foreign Legion, International Brigades" video.

  1. I don't know why Abraham Lincoln refused the Thai king's gift of Asian elephants. They could have released them in Florida; ah oops, that was in the Confederacy.
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  2. Seems a lot of nationalities fight wars for other nationalities here, and that is sometimes for far away wars that their governments or nationalities have nothing to do with. Why you would volunteer to do this is another extended question. Even in the nineteenth (and earlier) centuries, you don't need go to war somewhere to travel. Politics is like shifting sand and war is an extension of it by other means (Carl von Clausewitz, "On war").
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  3. I don't know why Abraham Lincoln refused the Thai king's gift of Asian elephants. They could have released them in Florida; ah oops, that was in the Confederacy.
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