Why do people still believe in the "Europeans were illegal immigrants trope"?
Because people are unable to comprehend how things have changed over time.
They cant comprehend how morality has changed, or how things like citizenship and immigration have changed.
They deal in absolutes in their 21st century viewpoint on everything.
>>3343780
Incas were superior to Europeans though.
Because white people don't want to accept that they're invaders.
So... some background... my mom is leftist, and very anti-American. I ended up centre-right, and slightly pro-American, which is ironic.
Anyway, she is always eager to believe any conspiracy theory that is anti-American, and often says things I consider pretty retarded.
However, I remember when I was a kid, and the First Gulf War was going on, that my mom had a theory that stuck with me, and that actually made a lot of sense.
She claimed, that the war on Iraq ended because Saddam set the oil wells on fire. The US would rather pull out than risk one of the largest sources of oil in the world burn out.
It sounds pretty far-fetched, but at the same time it does make some sense.
So... was Saddam's idea to set the oil wells on fire a brilliant gamble or a retarded sideshow?
Was that the cause of the US ending the war Iraq?
Were they too busy extinguishing the fires to keep going?
Was my mom right?
>>3343764
Saddam was already dead, dude.
>>3343814
In the FIRST Gulf War?
>>3343764
So what exactly was the point of this? What did America hope to achieve by "opening" Japan? Was it just a sense of manifest destiny, or was there something more sinister going on?
>>3343701
Trade relations, and the political foothold that goes with it, in East Asia. Remember, by this point, the biggest market in the region, China, had already mostly been swallowed up by the various European great powers, and America was working to hammer out some sort of free trade for everyone setup there as well.
Yeah gunboat diplomacy is pretty sinister.
What can you tell me about this photo?
It appears to be a photo of the incumbent Russian President.
>>3343685
A man who wanted nothing more than keep his country functioning after the fall of communism (and money and power) realizes he must become increasingly involved in the Middle East. He knows the following years will either be a repeat of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the start of WW3, or bring his country to the forefront of the world stage.
>>3343685
It appears to a picture depicting a group of humans facing a similar direction towards a platform with an object in it. The two closest humans appear to be wearing attire that indicates they are in military-related positions, despite the attire being unsuitable for combat due to a lack of flexibility and storage. The man in the center appears to be Vladamir Putin, the president of Russia, who appears to approach the table to interact with an unknown object on it. Behind the president is a group of individuals wearing business attire, due to the fact that in societies eyes, this particular attire demands respect and is a sign of wealth and importance.
I truly wish I could converse with Vladamir Putin someday, I could have very simulating conversations with him. The world is absolutely massive, and being able to understand it all and understand how it all works and fits together would make you extremely powerful, a polymath. Of course, the humans with this understanding are quite rare, but are capable of seeing what others cannot. A true genius realizes that we know nothing, and our science and various fields are our attempts at understanding reality.
>wrecks England harder than anyone had since 1776
Pshh . . . nothin' personal, perfidious anglo.
>>3343579
Since 1921.
>>3343579
>If you kill your enemies, they win
>ruled by two men and a bycicle for 200 years
you s-sure showed them
How come America didn't start any colonies in Africa during the 19th century like all the cool European powers?
arguably liberia was one
>>3343563
Because they did reverse-colonialism in their own country.
Because it was more profitable to just expand out west.
Remember, the frontier only closed in 1890, and after that we invaded Puerto Rico and the Philippines, and annexed Hawaii, just to get it out of our system.
What did Germany mean by this?
>>3343518
Germany and Italy didn't like each other until the Spanish Civil War. Earlier they were disputing who would rule Austria.
>>3343518
> material support to a landlocked country on a different continent
How the fuck did they do that?
>>3344680
Send arms through French Djibouti probably, the French had a railroad into Ethiopia, which the Italians most likely wouldn't want to bomb for fear of pissing off France
Do tiny island countries that lack self-sufficiency really have a right to exist?
Where am I going to launder my money you fuck?
define "right to exist"
what are you gonna - do destroy them?
they won't just stop becoming islands
>>3343479
How many countries are really completely self sufficient?
Most would have to revert back to the 16th century without imports of oil and gas.
If i had a penny for every time a schizophrenic Chinese prophet lead a massive holy war against a declining Chinese empire which ultimately failed yet still directly contributed to said empire's eventual balkanization, I'd have two pennies.
Which doesn't sound like a lot, but it's still weird that it's happened twice.
>>3343473
4 pennies actually. . .
If you are refering to the 2 two Christian leaders Zhang of Daxi and Hong of Heavenly Kingdom.
You also got the Taoist uprising of the Yellow Turban, and hyprid religion of the White Lotus that started the Red Turban rebellion.
What >>3344111 said, it actually happened 4 times.
You'd think "4 times isn't that many in a country over 2000 years old", except it kinda is considering the circumstances needed to cause something like this.
Did you know that the Byzantines and the Normans were at war at one point?
Yeah, cause it was in JJN's History of Venice
Everyone knows that
>>3343426
>no one will ever talk about the Venetian-Genoese Wars with me
feels fucking awful man
If I want to talk about religious music do I post here or /mu/?
>>3343367
>/mu/
You already know it
>>3343380
But this is the religious board and I've never had success with these threads on /mu/.
>>3343367
Definitely here, /mu/ it's a p4k dronefest since forever so you aren't going to achieve getting more than three posts if you don't post about Radiohead or Death Grips.
Is this the most clear cut good and bad black and white conflict in history?
>Jews see some Pagans being Pagans
>This enrages and confuses the Jews
>They decide to slaughter hundreds of thousands of Greek civilians
>Emperor Trajan is in a different war, gets word that Jews randomly chimped out and started committing genocide
>What the fuck
>Sends the Roman army to stop that shit
>OY VEY EMPEROR TRAJAN IS A FUCKEN ANTI-SEMOITE
>>3343361
I'm no anti-Semite or /pol/tard, but why the fuck the Romans put up with the Jews? They've killed larger populations.
>>3343454
They were a major population in the Eastern Mediterranean with numerous communities throughout the empire and there was concern that pointless provocation could lead to a proxy war with the Persians.
But I don't think you realize just how extensive the devastation was after the first Jewish Roman war. Judea had been savagely laid waste, sending a huge amount of Roman investment down the drain. And yet you ask why didn't they just kill everyone lol??? Over a million Jews were killed, enslaved, or fled the empire to the east. The Romans had no word for economics, but you don't have to be an economist to realize just how bad that is.
>>3343454
they know who their masters are, read the illiad and the odesssey and youll realize that jewish genocide of pagans is supported by their own poets. Socrates and its supported by their philosophers. Julius and by its most famous leader
Were humans meant to live in large urban areas? Something about city life seems so terribly depressing. It seems to strip people of their very humanity.
I think humans were never meant to leave rural society, it was what we were meant for. Living in cities is destroying us.
>>3343325
>meant
>>3343325
>meant
That aside all civilization is inherently dehumanizing. People were happier in the past.
>>3343331
I'd rather be a high IQ urban dweller enjoying the fruits of civilization than a low IQ bushman who wallows in his own shit.
Okay fellas, just remind me, who was simply the worst roman emperor in history? Who went out of their way to weaken the empire through their selfish shortsightedness, and pettiness? Who was Rome's weakest link?
>>3343282
Constantine the "Great".
>>3343282
>who was simply the worst roman emperor in history
Francis II
He lost at Austerlitz and the Roman Empire thus ended
Diocletian was responsible for killing the Western Empire. He damned it.
Memers will throw out shitty post-Diocletian emperors, mostly Honorius, as shittier ones, but it was ultimately Diocletian policies that set the West's already evident decline into full force.
>inb4 muh cabbages
>all the nonsense doomsday predictions that could have been avoided if we had just left Revelation out like he wanted
Apologize.
>The divide between Religion and Science could have been prevented had we burnt Luther at the Stake like we wanted
Apologize
>>3343257
what could have been
>>3343257
Proofs?