Why the fuck did Hitler declare war on the USA?
He wasn't obliged to do so since Japanese attacked first, and Japanese did jack shit to help him in his war against the Soviets. Also by December 1941 his army got stalled in Russia and was getting it's ass kicked. Why did he felt it was a good move to declare war on the biggest industrial power in the world at the time? I know the US public was hungry for Japanese blood because they were the ones who bombed Pearl Harbor but I doubt they'd want to fight in an another European War just because Roosevelt said so.
>>2820455
He thought Japan could keep the US occupied until he knocked out the USSR (German troops were in the suburbs of Moscow at this point). After this, he'd have the resources to defeat Britain and America, or so he thought.
>I could google this but I want some (you)'s on 4chan so I might as well post this on /his/
Get out. /his/ won't give you a real answer.
>>2820455
are you familiar with the meaning of alliance?
>"If a king will arise from the House of David, who is learned in Torah, observant of the commandments, as prescribed by the Written Law and Oral Law, as David his ancestor was,
and he will compel all Israel to walk in the way of the Torah, and reinforce the breaches in its observance, and he will fight the wars of G-d,
we may presume that he is the Messiah.
>If he does these things, and is fully successful, builds the Third Temple in its place and gathers the dispersed of Israel, then he is definitely the Messiah.
>If he did not succeed to this degree, or he was killed, he surely is not the Messiah promised in the Torah".
Why did Jesus not build the third temple, not gather the dispersed of Israel, and then he died?
>>2820361
The. Third temple was spiritual not physical
>>2820361
He did.
>>2820371
/thread
So, When did you grow out of your Byzaboo phase and realize that the Western Roman Empire was superior in every way?
*collapses*
>>2820060
>superior in every way
>Poorer
>Less developed
>Doesn't contain the Holy Land
>Britain
>Raped to death by Barbarians
Nah
>>2820082
Why didn't the Romans abandon the not so useful territories like Britain? The WRE could have abandoned the Brits and focused their efforts on preserving the important parts of their Empire.
Why butthurt towards Russia turned into open hate towards russia?
Is because of nato and the fact they can hide behind big brother nato if they go to far?
Gee, I don't know, maybe because they vassalized their countries under a strict communist regime and forced various dictatorships throughout Eastern Europe? Oh, and imperialism.
>>2819777
Because they no longer live under an oppressive communist regime and can actually manifest themselves towards the authoritarianism of their big neighbor and his crazy ex-KGB member president.
>>2819777
is there even a neighbor of russia that doesn't hate it?
Don't worry, I'm not /pol/.
Anyway, there's this guy on YouTube who posits that Islam didn't so much preserve Western civilization (key philosophical writings and so on) so much as they burned most of what there was when they overwhelmed the Christians and just happened to transmit back to us what was left.
Another part of his argument is that Islam was not only a terrifying force, but that they its leaders were cunning enough to know what to target. He suggests that they always went out of their way to destroy the trade routes that were in place, and that they made the trade on the Mediterranean (and living on the coasts) a nightmare due to their desire for slaves etc.
Finally, the points out that the Crusades are blown out of proportion, and that they were not only an adequate response to Muslim aggression, but late and underwhelming. However, he makes no mention of any attacks the Christians might've had on the Muslims outside of the Crusades (and I'm sure there must've been some), so I don't know how to take what he's saying as a non-expert.
I would love some real information on this. I'd also like to know from Muslimbros how their conquests are seen in their countries too--is it just propaganda?
Here's the presentation from that guy,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y
>>2819752
The problem with the idea of Islam "preserving" Western Civilization is that it implies that the Byzantines, Sassanids, etc. were going about destroying the Greco-Roman traditions, which is nonsense.
>>2819774
So why is this idea so widespread? I remember reading stuff a while back about how people like Rousseau propped Islam up and transformed it into a fantasy land like Prince of Persia to make their own political systems and countries look bad.
>inb4 /pol/ replies to this and tells me it's the jews again
1.that pic is so bullshit that i don't even know where to start talking
2. you talk about "islam" like it's the driving force that makes the arabs/turks invade, when in fact the reason these wars happened was because of Umayyad/Abbasid/Ottoman empires imperialism (i.e hunger for clay and economy), Think of it as the same reason the roman empire and carthage and the mongols tried to invade lots of shit.
3.Crusaders are a meme, if they really wanted to liberate the "holy lands"' and "drive back the evil muslim invaders" they wouldn't sack Constantinople and leave it defenceless, they wouldn't go around massacring people of the Baltic and Catholics (see:teutonic knights), and what further proves my point about them is that they were too busy infighting instead of doing something effective, which got them BTFO by Saracens and whatnot.
When most Byzantines where actually non-Greeks
Pic related, Serbian Constantine the Great
>>2819677
Bait harder friend
>>2819677
Constantine was actually British
>>2819677
Everyone here knows that the Serbs were Greeks (if you've taken the Balkanpill).Anywho next thread
How long did you last, his, and what was the final straw?
>>2819339
Last episode I watched was them entering Paris on some pretend funeral.
I should see the later ones, I overall liked the show, since I am not autistic and I can suspend disbelief to enjoy an action movie with a historical aesthetic that roughly follows an old legend.
>>2819339
stop watching at Muh ebin shield maiden meme
Him being unironically xtian
>USA
>Nazi Germany
>Soviet Union
Your country got occupied during WWII and you were back in time. Which one of the three would you realistically argue to support, if you want your country to be independent/liberated/restored/etc and not annexed?
>>2819287
I don't understand.
If you wanted to be liberated, wouldn't the US be the only option? The other two both assimilated countries.
>>2819287
My country is the US and I would also choose the US because it is the best option.
>>2819287
what kind of question is this? Only /pol/ autismos think Nazi Germany and the USSR would be super fun to live in. The only choice close to realistic is the US to what is practically not even a worthy question
How does one man BTFO the entire german race?
>german race
There are only five races.
Voltaire was born before the age of nationalism
He cared about enlightenmend and fighting religious authorities, not BTFO Germans.
If anything, he was a pan-European, and the protagonist of his most famous book was a German
>>2818939
Truly a man ahead of his time.
>"Eastern Roman Empire".
>This is very difficult to say while keeping a straight face. I wonder who can, because indeed it is hard.
>"Eastern", you say, grinning like Procopius did. "Eastern", it is its name. But when thinking of "Eastern", you think about how Rome was located in the West. You think about all those who succeeded Rome in the West. You think about how the Catholic Church continued Roman political system in the West.
>But then, the funniest is coming: "Roman". Yes, now, you cannot contain your laughter. "Roman" it is called, despite the fact that this "Roman" body is standing on Greece, a land so harsh and poor that it took the Legions of Rome 66 years to set foot in it. A Greek-speaking and non-Roman Catholic people, yes, but still calling themselves "Roman".
>And now, here is the end of the fun: "Empire". Now you fell on the ground, laughing so hard you can't breathe. An "Empire", a body made of dozens of pretenders to the throne, all fighting for themselves, giving strange names to their position, full of Despots or Autokrators. An "Empire" who will stay divided and eventually ruled by Turks , while the great powers of Europe create colonies all around the world.
Oh wow i thought you guys were kidding when you said he hates byzantines, what the fuck was his problem?
>>2818599
Why are british people so autistic when it comes to the word "empire"?
>>2818599
Is this legit?
Fucking rek'd byzantineboos
>Eastern
>Roman
>Empire
/sci/ makes fun of us for being "useless" and "brainlets." What is the deal? The humanities can be just as intellectually rigorous as STEM and can be applied to the real world as just as much too. We have law, ethics, logic, politics, music, art, literature, etc.. All of which are very much applicable.
No. This board would be a lot better off if & humanities was dropped.
Humanities is so broad it makes /his/ into /pol/ minus flags, except we get a couple of tryhard raiders from /leftypol/ trying to make this into their new home.
No. Just no. As much as I enjoy history and even some humanities they don't even come close to the intellect required for high level math or sciences.
Resentful technicians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lepanto
The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement taking place on 7 October 1571 in which a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of European Catholic maritime states arranged by Pope Pius V, financed by Habsburg Spain and led by admiral John of Austria, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras, where the Ottoman forces sailing westwards from their naval station in Lepanto (the Venetian name of ancient Naupactus Ναύπαkτος, Ottoman İnebahtı) met the fleet of the Holy League sailing east from Messina, Sicily.
In the history of naval warfare, Lepanto marks the last major engagement in the Western world to be fought entirely or almost entirely between rowing vessels, the galleys and galeasses which were still the direct descendants of the ancient trireme warships. The battle was in essence an "infantry battle on floating platforms".[10] It was the largest naval battle in Western history since classical antiquity, involving more than 400 warships. Over the following decades, the increasing importance of the galleon and the line of battle tactic would displace the galley as the major warship of its era, marking the beginning of the "Age of Sail".
The victory of the Holy League is of great importance in the history of Europe and of the Ottoman Empire, marking the turning-point of Ottoman military expansion into the Mediterranean, although the Ottoman wars in Europe would continue for another century.
>>2818447
Why were the Ottomans so autistic about conquering Europe?
THEN THE WINGED HUSSARS ARRIVED
>Meanwhile, the centers clashed, with such force that Ali Pasha's galley drove into the Real as far as the fourth rowing bench, and hand-to-hand fighting commenced around the two flagships, between the Spanish tercio infantry and the Turkish janissaries. When the Real was nearly taken, Colonna came alongside with the bow of his galley and mounted a counter-attack. With the help of Colonna, the Turks were pushed off the Real and the Turkish flagship was boarded and swept. The entire crew of Ali Pasha's flagship was killed, including the commander himself. The banner of the Holy League was hoisted on the captured ship, breaking the morale of the Turkish galleys nearby. After two hours of fighting, the Turks were beaten left and center
How true can this be?
>a black guy moves to a cold climate and within 10000 years he becomes white, with blond hair, blue eyes, and now his skeletal structure has changed for some reason even though evolution is meant to take a reeeeeally long FUCKING TIME
defend this
White people aren't real.
Why don't you post this on /sci/?
>>2818451
i was thinking about but i didn't want to trouble them with it
now answer the question
>A second, unexplained, internal explosion sent her to the seabed in 18 minutes, with the deaths of 1,198 passengers and crew.
hmm...
>>2818146
well yeah it had munitions on board
Are you implying with your filename that it wasn't a German U-boat at all? because thats stupid.
>2818150
This. The germans still hit it first.
>>2818150
This.
Also remember reading something about coal dust in the bunkers contributing to the explosions.
Who else has watched him debating? He destroys every atheist in every single one. He makes Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins look like children trying to build a valid argument.
You cannot remain an atheist after watching a debate with William Lane Craig.
>>2818011
WLC is a compromiser who likes to excise portions of the bible to help convince atheists that "a god" (read: not the Christian God) exists
>>2818021
well you gotta start somewhere
baby steps anon
>>2818032
WLC is correct that if Jesus rose from the dead then Christianity is true, however what he fails to realize is that if Jesus rose from the dead ALL of Christianity is true. He should point that out instead of offering people to abandon inerrancy.