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Iraq tried to chimp out with the help of krauts but they got btfo by the RAF and armored cars

>>3292467
WW2 is quite literally why most Arab states are independent

>>3292473
I mean uprisings, France and Britain were in their weakest

>>3292450
they feared the ladyboy warrior

>>3292450
they sucked up to the Europeans and played them to each other
French in Indochina and Brits in Burma and Malaya would probably find that its the best to keep Thailand free

>>3292459
This. Also keep in mind that when it had the opportunity in 1941, Thailand allied with Japan (albeit after the Japanese invaded) and tried to annex land from British Burma and French Indochina.

How about not fucking dying. Seriously, that was the biggest issue. Had Alexander lived and properly set up administration of the empire, it wouldn't have been torn apart so quickly or at all.

I'd have the Persians win

Seriously, there's no way that without the greeks democracy would have never made it, yeah they had the concept early on but it would have developed on its own, Persians on the other hand had a lot more to offer the world

Sire an heir and not die like a bitch.

>>3292389
He was technically brilliant but totally incapable of going on the offensive.

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>>3292389
>If we had a million men, McClellan would swear the enemy had two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three.

>>3292389
He was a coward

>>3292351
They didn't.

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>>3292336
The Germans were kinda outnumbered in that one, but that's nothing compared to how outnumbered the irrelevant barely armed tiny flottilla of Mers-El-Kebir was by britscums

>>3292336

Yeah like the Spanish armada

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>>3292355
Britain can thank the weather for that one

>>3292321
pascals wager

>>3292321
tf is a murphy's law atheist?

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>>3292321
>>3292335

>Is it better to be a Murphy's Law Atheist or a "Better safe than sorry" Christian?

What about a "better safe than sorry" atheist?

"I read the Pentateuch, therefore I am an expert on intergalactic superhuman entities, an agent of an intergalactic superhuman entity, and have a license to kill from an intergalactic superhuman entity."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdI0QzcWfio

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>>3292227
>tfw Project Gutenberg's translations of the later d'Artagnan books are painfully mediocre

The Sharpe books are the cringiest shit I've ever read

>And then Sharpe walked through the door and the beautiful Spanish girl said "Wow Mister Sharpe you are so tall (exactly six feet as I mentioned in the preivous page and the page before that one and the page before that one too) and also very handsome, I wish I could leave my husband and take your Enormous Anglo Cock into my sultry vagina." And the Spanish girl's husband, who was short and hunchbacked and had a hook nose and also a mole on his lip, said "Grr! I hate Sharpe because he is so brave and noble and I am weak and foreign!"

>>3292442

Those were his first novels, I haven't read them but the Archer's Tale in the OP was written almost 20 years after the first Sharpe book, I imagine he improved quite a bit by then.

>>3292173
the eternal Hohenzollern
if they hadn't started and lost the war, France wouldn't have occupied the Rhineland

>>3292187
but really was it a Jew's idea to move colonial troops to germany?

>>3292240
Where would you put troops if you were a French general?

I think they should only pass resolutions they intend to enforce.

>>3292151
So does this make Mugabe a criminal for not prosecuting murders of whites?

>>3292151
States may do what they want with their own inhabitants.

But States may also do what they want with other states. So if a nation wants to commit genocide, and other nations don't want it to, it must be able to defend itself from those other nations.

If it can't, it really has no right to do anything.

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>>3292142

19th century middle class life looked comfy af desu

>>3292140
You're seriously underestimating the importance of the cotton industry to the South. Mississippi and Louisiana used to be the richest states in the Union.
King Cotton wasn't just a meme, Britain would delight in propping up a country hostile to the US, Europeans were just too busy stuffing around in Mexico.

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>>3292140

Six million European Jews and countless millions of Eastern European Slavs would still be alive if they had won because it would have prevented US intervention in WW1 and thus stopped the rise of the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

>>3292170

That's not something we can say about the confederates, it's something we could have said in your imaginary scenario.

>>3292116

People don't "idolize" the Vikings.

>>3292123
Most white supremacists unironically do though.

Most of things were done by south asians actually

>>3292003
Because you're taking their statements at face-value.

>guy says they're the most rational
>people who came afyer him actually believe him

Im from Argentina, I have read the diaries of the loli lover Juán Peron had, she was a low class starved girl yet she wrote better than the majority of current argentinian population.
Its not an anecdotical evidence, its a trend, people had a high regard of culture and morals.

>>3292003
I think that the moral high point of humanity was Classical Greece, while the early 20th century was its cultural high point, but close enough.

>>3291952

The biggest difference would have been no Vietnam war.

>>3291952
You wouldn't see the major Great Society reforms passed by LBJ (Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start).

>>3291952
The Civil Rights autism would have been delayed