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>Churchill declared war on Germany

>>3385386
Why would a German sub surface by a neutral ship?
A torpedo is big expensive and you can only carry a few. So German and British subs would use its deck gun to sink unarmed ships. That's what Q ships were for, it would be pointless for them to be marked as neutral.

>>3385386
wat about hitler

Need oil. Go to Baku get shit pushed in from behind. Retreat, no oil. Must fight bad guys first. Bad guys at Stalingrad.

it was a doomed operation from the start

the red army learned from 1941, engaging in urban combat was a god send to them, the flanks were covered by allies without sufficient anti tank or heavy weaponry

stalingrad was an important target, but no target worth sacrificing your entire army responsible for advancing

there was no pulling out the 6th army, it was mainly a horse towed army, you dont move those rapidly, the panzerdivisions could have been pulled out, but thats a death sentence to the rest of the army

they didnt stayed there willingly, a breakout could have been ordered but they were encircled, the results of a breakout attempt could easily result the same as they did in Budapest

once you march an infantry army somewhere, and you have no trucks or trains, that army stays there or advances, retreating against soviet tank divisions wont happen

this is why elastic defense was developed
you have multipline layers of defenses, the 1st one only loosely occupied and used for scouting, 2 others behind it have the AT and most anti personnel deployed, while at the very back its the artillery

should the enemy attack in huge numbers you pull back asap to avoid being overrun and cut up into defensive pockets, it happened time and time again because hitlers retarded "not one step back" orders

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>>3385377
>YFW Everyone mocking Germany and Hitler for not taking a city.

>>3385287
Mental illness, don't shill is nonsense here.

>>3385289
So you'll rather reply to/post /pol/ spam rather than discuss something related to the humanities? Hmm, you're the mentally ill one.

>>3385323
>if you don't like eating shit you must like drinking piss
Fuck off Ray

>>3385217
What in Christ's name is this picture
DELET THIS

>>3385167
Fuck Trump

>>3385167
Black and white
Either you break the law, or you don't, you can't have a middle ground.

>Professer is convinced Hannibal is black
>mention he was probably of near eastern descent because carthage is a Phoenician colony
>some guy in the back says he was "born and raised in Africa so he black"

>>3385144
The Republic of Finland

Russia

In the royal sense, Rome died with the Russian Empire. In terms of which nation fills the current role that Rome did, the United States.

Fuck Russia

>>3385094
>how did the top leadership actually battle over power?
Bysanthical bureaucratism and/or political cliques ganging up to take out one perceived enemy only to reform into different factions later.

Just like everywhere else.

>>3385094
It was like IRL version of Gay of Thrones. Nothing but backstabbery, murders, show trials, intrigues, etc.

>>3385081
Well OP, going off my history expertise as well as my assessment of the picture and article you posted, it appears that 20,000-30,00 civilians were eaten

>long siege
>food shortage
>people die
>people eat dead people

>>3385081
absolute devotion to your nation in action

the soldiers rounded up civilians and butchered them for food to outlast the sieging army. the partial victory of the attackers led to their defeat.

Three more from the same book

>''Free spirit and marriage. Will free spirits live with women? In general, I believe that, as the true-thinking, truth-speaking men of the present, they must, like the prophetic birds of ancient times, prefer to fly alone.''

>''Marriage as a long conversation. When entering a marriage, one should ask the question: do you think you will be able to have good conversations with this woman right into old age? Everything else in marriage transitory, but most of the time in interaction is spent in conversation.''

>''Masks. There are women who have no inner life wherever one looks for it, being nothing but masks. That man is to be pitied who lets himself in with such ghostly, necessarily unsatisfying creatures; but just these women are able to stimulate man's desire most intensely: he searches for their souls --and searches on and on.''

>>3385080
/his/ once again takes the wrong things from Nietzsche.

>attacking force suffers more casualties than the defenders
Wow how unexpected

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>>3385009
They were called "human wave tactics" for a reason anon

I think soldiers themselves where just incredibly dumb and got themselves killed. By the end of war soviet officers had learned a thing or two(Bagration was a beauty of an operation).
Also >>3385020

>>3384980
I believe the mace was to knock the enemy off their horse.

They were highly situational weapons mostly used to hit through armour and dismount a rider. Spears were the most commonplace weapon.

>>3384980
Short axes were used to bust up shield walls.

>>3384967

Based on what I've read, I believe it could have been done, but only if the German generals made perfect tactical decisions the entire way through. They would need to have perfect knowledge of French army movements, which is only possible with the benefit of hindsight.

>>3384977
It was an extremely tight timetable.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe Von Moltke wanted to start the war before 1913 because he feared the plan would not work if France kept militarizing but his plans were sidelined by the Navy which felt they were not ready.

Utter fucking autism, I wonder if Russia and France even would had declared war over Serbia, but there's no doubt UK wouldn't have

>>3384938
Literal Aruba flag just more red and MS paint

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>>3384958
How???

No, looking for one universal meaning is meme and also suffering.
What you do, gives you meaning.
Then again once you mature a lot of people usualy find meaning in their family,kids,community or field they work in if it's something interesting to them.
Looking for universal meaning is for edgy,confused youngsters.

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Is math true?