Martijn Faassen has moved on Nostr: I remember reading a passage in Lee Kuan Yew's autobiography to this effect. And of ...

I remember reading a passage in Lee Kuan Yew's autobiography to this effect. And of course when the Dutch showed up in Indonesia after WW2 and said "we're back" people said "no you're not" and that resulted in years of vicious warfare euphemistically called "police action" in Dutch at the time.

Sent a whole new generation of young Dutch men over to fight there for years, to traumatize and get traumatized. I met a grand uncle once who had stories.