bs2Why 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...
'... 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/