The world’s only surviving German A7V Sturmpanzerwagen tank from World War I is preserved at the Queensland Museum in Brisbane, Australia. To protect this rare vehicle from dust, humidity, and other environmental damage, it is displayed inside a sealed protective enclosure.
Known as A7V “Mephisto,” this extraordinary vehicle is the only surviving example of Germany’s only operational tank design from the First World War. Germany built just 20 A7V tanks during the conflict, a tiny production run compared with the thousands of tanks fielded by Britain and France.
The A7V entered combat in 1918 and weighed about 33 tons, requiring a crew of up to 18 men. Equipped with a 57 mm cannon and several machine guns, it was designed to smash through enemy defenses, but frequent mechanical problems and poor cross-country performance limited its effectiveness.
Mephisto also took part in the Battle of Villers-Bretonneux on April 24, 1918, the first battle in history in which tanks fought directly against other tanks. During the fighting, German A7Vs clashed with British Mark IV tanks, marking the beginning of tank-versus-tank warfare.
The tank became stranded in a shell crater near Villers-Bretonneux, France, in July 1918. Under the cover of darkness, Australian troops carried out a carefully planned operation to recover the abandoned vehicle despite the threat of German artillery. After the war, Mephisto was shipped to Australia as a war trophy and eventually became one of the Queensland Museum’s most treasured artifacts.
Today, Mephisto is preserved inside a transparent protective enclosure that shields it from dust, humidity changes, and other environmental contaminants while allowing visitors an unobstructed view. As the world’s only surviving A7V, it remains an exceptionally rare link to the earliest days of armored warfare.
Friedrich Nietzsche put suicidal empathy into his own words nearly a century and a half before Gad Saad.
In Beyond Good and Evil he writes about a society grown so “pathologically soft and tender that it sides even with those who harm it.”
Once it reaches this stage, he noted, anything which raises a man above the herd and intimidates his neighbour is declared evil.
Mediocrity becomes the highest achievement.
Elon Musk Just Called Out Mass Muslim Migration DESTROYING Western Civilization
“If people come with antithetical views, I am against that.”
“I am against rape and murder. Against imposing rules contrary to the West.”
“It’s a crying shame the media like YOU don’t recognize this"
MARCO RUBIO: "They can call themselves Communists, or anarchists, or Marxists.
But the fundamental character is always the same: an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built."
MIC DROP!🎤
Elon: “The fact, as you pointed out, is that a quarter billion people follow me. I think a lot more people actually like me than don’t, and I think a lot more people hate you and the media more than you realize.”
Take note, sir:
Suicidal empathy was literally the sin of Judas.
Think of what that money could have done for the poor, says the man who turns Christ over to the Roman authorities, and later hung himself in despair.
He makes the statement when Lazarus's sister Mary annoints the feet of Jesus with a costly perfume.
The wisdom in making a misapplied, deceitful and narcissistic empathic altruism the sin of the betrayer of Christ Himself is breathtaking.
It's another example (along with bottomless depths of the story of Cain and Abel and the brazen serpent who is also Jesus) of the truly incomprehensible literary genius of the Biblical canon.
We think of this evil as Marxism. In reality, Marxism is nothing more or less than the current instantiation of a much more ancient evil: possession by the envious and hateful spirit that drove Cain to murder his brother Abel.
The great book of Genesis thus portrays mankind as riven by an eternal fratricidal conflict.
Those who reject genuine sacrifice become embittered by their subsequent failure ("rejection by God").
Instead of repenting and changing, they turn to revenge.
And who do they target? Those who strive to do well and offer what is best.
I can't believe how much wisdom the author of Genesis 4 compressed into that story's few sentences. You might even come to believe that God Himself had a hand in it.
Truly: it's uncanny. The first two human beings born into history are, respectively, a good, honest productive man and his brother, who allows himself to be consumed by resentment and the desire to destroy.
Communism, in a nutshell.
MARCO RUBIO: "Marxism is a distinctive & unique evil. They take revenge on the world for their own inadequacy.
It is a revolt of the worst, against the best. They tear down what greater men have built."