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Were there any impressive feats from UN troops during the Korean War aside from the US ? I heard a few of them but I'm curious about /his/
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>In the battle for Jipyeongri, when the Chinese used their previously successful psychological warfare tactics of banging gongs and blowing horns, the French blew their own. Then they fixed bayonets and charged. The Chinese ran away.
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The Soviets spent the entire war fleeing from the Wermacht, burning down their grain supplies, murdering their own countrymen and raping their own women. So dreadful was the state of the Soviet Union that hundreds of thousands of Soviet Citizens fought with the Germans against their countrymen.
It was the weather that stopped the Wermacht, not the Soviets. Just look at the soviet deathtoll versus the German deathtoll if you're ever in any doubt again.
Commies had as much to do with it as the Japs had to do with stopping the Mongols
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>weather
Read German incompetence. Not attacking in winter is like How to War 101.
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What was his problem?
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> At the Battle of Waterberg, he issued orders to encircle the Herero on three sides so that the only escape route was into the waterless Omaheke-Steppe, a western arm of the Kalahari Desert. The Herero fled into the desert and Trotha ordered his troops to poison water holes, erect guard posts along a 150-mile line and shoot on sight any Herero, be they man, woman or child, who attempted to escape. To make his attitude to the Herero absolutely clear, Trotha then issued the Vernichtungsbefehl, or extermination order
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Currently reading about the Eastern Front of WWI and something struck me.
Where the fuck did all these Russians come from? Why is Russia so populous? I understand it's a massive fucking country but for it to be filled with so many Russians is another thing entirely. Austria-Hungary got fucked by it's disparate peoples that made up the empire, why didn't Russia? Did all the steppe peoples just assimilate really well?
WHY ARE THERE SO MANY RUSSIANS?
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>tfw my thread is going to die
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One of the Tsar's titles was Emperor of All the Russias, that is all culturally Rus people. Which is basically most of Russian territory west of the Ural mountains, so that's a lot of Russians. That is my understanding of it anyway.
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friendly ukranian is here to bump and tell you THAT WE WERE NOT ALL RUSSIAN
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Is it OK, from a humanities point of view, to not have strong political ideas or engagement?
I came to this realization recently. I was interested in politics, followed all the news, thought about it deeply, voted and so on. I'd spend hours a day arguing about it online. But about a month ago, I came to the realization that:
(a) its not my area of expertise, and both me and the people I argue with weren't providing sources, spending more than 15 minutes doing research on the shit we're arguing about, and trying to argue and solve problems that have been around for decades, if not centuries and
(b) I really don't care enough to invest a lot of time in it. I have my own shit to worry about, I'm interested in science, video games, art, history, philosophy and literature. Those are things I *enjoy* doing, and can have a conversation about confidently without getting involved in petty squabbles.
So, is it really OK, would the world fall apart, would Britain sink beneath the waves, if just one person, me, said "you know, I really don't care about the NHS, or immigration, or austerity, I don't know enough about them and I'm probably never going to"? Most of the philosophies that attract me focus on the stability and morality of the state being built from the individual upward, not the state downward anyway.
So if I didn't vote, and many other people chose not to vote on issues they don't know a lot about and just focused on the shit they do, would that be sociologically damaging? Or is it too dangerous for individual not to worry about these issues these days, with climate change, mass immigration and capitalism having huge effects on our lives? I ain't asking this on /pol/ by the way, because first I'm asking this from a broader perspective than politics, I'm asking it from a philosophical point of view, and second I already know their answer will be.
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You do you, after all, you are an individual. Is it in your self-interest to have strong political ideas or engagement? No? Then it's fine not to partake in it.
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There's a difference between centrism and not having an interest whatsoever in politics.
I feel like it's my civic duty to be read up on politics (which you can argue is a moral obligation).
However to have a balanced and fair viewpoint when it comes to politics is completey ok and normal. Only people with autism deal in absolutes or believe the world is black and white and that there are no grey answers for grey questions.
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>tfw can read the most ridiculous radical philosophically disparate political treatises from sjw critical theory stuff to ancap stuff to communist stuff to ethnonationalist fascist stuff and still be able to recognize validity in all of the arguments presented on some level while also thinking of the flaws
either I am very very smart or very very gullible
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How much is known about this period of Hispania? How did they get so easily destroyed by muslims? Would history be completely different if they were never conquered and the Reconquista never happened?
I've read that contrary to popular belief, it was one of the most advanced Christian kingdoms of Europe because of how romanized the Visigoths became.
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Apparently they pretty much lived like being in the Roman Empire without the taxes. The country was also clean as there were baths present all over the country. Baetica (Andalusia) was the one of the most developed regions of the country and the country was divided as the kings were arians where as the population was catholic until Isidore of Seville converted them to catholic.
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>>3273455
was one*
Also to mention that the Visigoth king was at the north of Iberia fighting against the Basques when the invasion happened.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPpXFnHoC-0
Looks kinda promising. I bet it will be banned in Russia.
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It's definitely gonna trigger some commies in the Internet
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It's Paul Whitehouse!
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>>3273077
It will probably trigger some people, but it probably won't actually get banned. As far as I'm aware, there's not even been a campaign against it like there is about the upcoming film about Tsar Nicholas II.
Has anything in history caused more kraut butthurt /his/?
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Other krauts
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I'd say Harris would be an equal to the IS.
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>>3272958
You should have posted a T34. In the great schemes of WW2 the IS2 seems rather irrelevant compared to other things.
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How come this place is not more talked about? 2017-08-21 10:21:57 Post No.3272633
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How come this place is not more talked about?
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>Greatest producer of copper in antiquity, extremely infuential for bronze age trade
>Home of the philistines and other sea peoples who caused the bronze age collapse
>opened the silver trade routes to Europe and showed the Phoenicians the routes towards it, leading to the alphabetic revolution and the urbanization of South Europe
>Home of the founder of the Stoicism school of thought
>Reason for the greatest naval battle ever, the battle of Lepanto between Europe and Ottomans
The list could go on
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>The list could go on
Do.
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>>3272646
This. Dpn't leave us hanging
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>>3272646
>Cyprus became the first country in the world to be governed by a Christian ruler.
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Why are Brits larping as Anglo-Saxons(germanic people) if they don't even look the part?
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Because the genetics of most local English peoples haven't substantially changed too much since Anglo-Saxon times.
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>>3272598
So most of them aren't actually anglo-saxon then.
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Because they speak a germanic language.
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How can one man be so absolutely correct about everything?
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>>3272258
I agree, the Cambodian Genocide never occured.
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>>3272292
He's so right about everything that people that dislike him have to make shit up instead of discussing what he says.
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>>3272292
Wrong Jew
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Was there a bigger cuck in history than Neville Chamberlain?
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>be mr. chamberlain
>let germany annex czechoslovakia
>don't do anything, just wait
>let germany get bigger and stronger
>tfw you've let germany turn into a bull
>only until then do you realise what a cuck you are
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>>3272203
"Drop the economic sanctions on Germany? Central Banking as a fundamental issue in the cause of the war? Whatever do you mean?"
>According to the history books, Hitler wanted the war, but the point still stands.
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>>3272192
he didn't have the foresight that we have
the Czech actually had a good chance of winning if they had allied commitment in place but as far the Brits know they would need time to prepare for a new world war
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Why do today's gangsters lack the honor that the old school gangsters had ?
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>today's gangsters
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>>3271655
>implying Lucky or his clique had honor
It's just a facade from being romanticized by Hollywood.
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>>3271655
>Gangsters
>Honor
Hollywood isn't real friend.
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Historically, what would you say are America's most core values?
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>>3271518
telling authority figures to go fuck themselves
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Defending her allies, once they do most of the dying
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>>3271518
Constantly shitting on every immigrant group that comes into the country for a couple decades until they become so commonplace that no one notices or cares anymore, then acts like they were never shitty to them in the first place.
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Private Sector Corruption VS Public Sector Corruption 2017-08-21 01:06:16 Post No.3271465
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Private Sector Corruption VS Public Sector Corruption
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We're familiarised that corruption within ”The System” or the public sector or the state has long been a thorn for every country, in the past, nowadays, and future. There isn't a year or month or week or day where an individual, knowingly-unknowingly, isn't witness to some shape, form, and/or appearance of corruption in the daily life. Whether it is constructing or repairing roads, bridges or holes & whether he watches or reads in the news that a corporation, commercial bank, or a transnational company is being suspected of wrongdoings that'd be the antithesis to incorruptibility. Nevertheless, corruption within the state mechanisms, on all levels, is a lot more dangerous (and it should be) in the eyes of the beholders.
However...
Despite corruption being condemned in the public sector, on the other hand, the private sector doesn't face the same sternness from society. Sure, you'd get pundits or columnists or commentators saying a piece of their mind into the matter discussed, yet corruption within private sector is, largely speaking, ignored or downplayed into a mirage of self-pity & bitterness from those that see it.
The private sector is plagued, but not limited to: favoritism, nepotism, cronyism, fraud, money laundering, cooking the books, and overwhelmed lawsuits according to costs, These are just a couple of examples.
Not only that but I've actually read (it wasn't a case of trolling, it would'e been obvious,the person was dead serious) that somebody I was communicating with believes that corruption within the private sector is ”A-ok”, while corruption in the public-state sector is a problem. How is this not a clear-cut example of cognitive dissonance?
What can be done, fixed, patched, and minimise the impact of corruption in the private sector?
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i think we all know what teh solution is
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>>3271482
>Ancom
>solution
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