/tv/ here, how legit was George S. Patton?

most definitely /k/

wait isn't this /k/

>>31880478
How did he die? Some people say he was assassinationed because he didn't want to de-nazi germany because he learned thst they weren't the bad guys, but the reds were

>>31880619

His car crashed into an oxcart and he hit his head on the windshield, he was paralyzed and died in hospital 12 days later.

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>>31880478
General George "Sail to Moscow on a river of blood using a boat made out of spent brass" Patton was legit.

He was not the end-all be-all. He was not our most gifted commander in terms of tactical acumen. What he was, was a futurist. He was an early proponent of mechanized warfare and he lobbied to have us develop that capacity. He also listened to his Intel people and never forgot that the Germans were never more dangerous than when they were backing up, preventing a disaster at the Bulge. On top of that, he was our most aggressive commander. No one took acreage like Patton.

Now, he wasn't without his flaws. He took casualties that he didn't have to and he was an egomaniac who made his soldiers take the field in ties. In that sense, he was out of touch and chickenshit. Overall, the George C. Scott biopic provides an accurate summary of the credible criticisms of his performance.

>>31880619
The theory, and there is something to it, is that Stalin had him offed because he realized that the commies were just as bad. While this is true, it was politically untenable. Additionally, he saw the folly of repeating the mistakes of the Treaty of Versailles and did not want to punish ordinary Germans for the crimes of their government when no one else, understandably, gave a fuck.

Oh, and >>>/pol/

He sounded like goddamned Bugs Bunny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYjnWXFTQkM

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>>31881296
Also, wisdom.

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>>31881306
Fun fact: The narrator in that documentary is Ronald Reagan.

>>31881335
>Fabricated and out of context/10
>>>/pol/

He is a general. They are just politicians in uniform.

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>>31881376
>>>/biz/

kike go home.

>>31881376
>>31881296

go home Schlomo

>>31880478
Legit and good. Thats why someone tried to kill him so many times.

>>31880478
>Some fat POG that sat behind a desk his entire career.


Sums out /k/ perfectly

>tfw all the good people died out
We should have stopped the soviets

>>31885535
We did. Or rather, they did, because they were always unstable idiots

>>31885490
>Some fat POG that sat behind a desk his entire career.
>I also don't know what the fuck I'm talking about.

Patton served on the front lines in the First World War. He crawled alone across no man's land at night to scout out enemy positions before attacks and rode on the top of tanks as they went into battle. Earlier in his career he killed several of Pancho Villa's men during Pershing's expedition into Mexico, notably strapping the corpse of a high ranking one across the hood of his car like it was a deer.