From the 30 years war to WWI they were the punching bag of France and Prussia.
Most of their victories were against petty Italian states or the Ottoman Empire, and even then they needed Polish help and you had things like the Battle of Karánsebes
They barely could even keep their empire without help from the Russian.
This was the "Empire" that was supposed to dominate Germany and most of Europe yet it kept being beaten and humiliated and they didn't seem to learn much about and step up their game.
They had plenty of time to strengthen themselves.
1866 is inexcusable.
>>2394979
>keep surviving anyway
There's your answer.
>>2395104
Well shouldn't a country learn from that? Maybe not having decades old military tactics and equipment might help.
>>2395185
Their win/loss rate in war in better than Britain's and only just below France's. Obviously there's a reason they lasted centuries as an empire and Britain didn't, for example.
Is America a nation of "blood and spirit" / "blood and land" or a nation built upon ideas?
I'm torn between these two notions. On the one hand, I tend to reject ideas of racial supremacy in favor of cultural supremacy. BUT, then I look to those whose ideas I find superior to others, and the ideological heroes all tend to be the same color and generally of European descent. So, which is it?
>>2394760
America is no nation at all. It is a country. The idea is freedom, blood plays not much of a role traditionally. To bring heritage into play is a very sad turn of events for the US.
America as a large economic space inhabited by people who live in relative isolation to one another.
>>2394760
But historically Americans have made VERY much of heritage, especially European heritage, up until the late 1960s.
Was it autism?
>>2394577
Yes
>being so multikulti that you have to release your mobilization order in 15 languages
it was severe autism
diversity is our strength
If you are +13 and interested by dinosaurs, does that make you an autist?
>>2394462
Define "interested"
>>2394493
Watch multiple documentaries about them, and buy some occational books about it
>>2394506
Eh, you're fine. Everyone needs a hobby or three.
What are some comfy books of medieval history, /his/?
WE
ARE
ROMANS
Can anyone reccomend me some good War FPS games like Wolfenstein: TNO or something similar with a good story mode that makes me feel the pressure of a full scale war and the desolation, and destruction?
Prefferably one with an inasion of Normandy-type scenario. Bonus points if you can play as a Nazi
sage, you cancerous wheracuck
>>2394322
Red Orchestra 2 is good. It doesn't have a proper campaign but the multiplayer is fairly historically accurate and realistic. You can play as the Germans in it.
>>2394337
Yes the wheraboo, who likes a game all about killing Nazis in all sorts of bloody manners
What are the main differences between Indian religions? (Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, and Jainism)
Hinduism:
Gods: Yes, many gods responsible for many aspects and ideals including creation and destruction.
Reincarnation: Yes, and the goal is to escape its cycle. You must achieve enlightenment to do so, or a God can help you.
Has a caste system. The higher caste you are, the closer to enlightenment you are.
Buddishm:
Gods: None
Reincarnation: Yes, and the goal is to escape its cycle. You must achieve enlightenment to do so.
There are no such things as souls, aka indestructible individual ego-entities .
Sikhism:
Gods: 1
Reincarnation: Yes, and the goal is to escape its cycle, only God can help you escape.
Jainism:
Gods: No "gods" with powers, but there are "perfect" semi-mythical individuals that have acheived perfection.
Reincarnation: Yes, and the goal is to escape its cycle. You must achieve enlightenment to do so.
>>2396161
There are higher realms of existence with beings that are basically gods in Buddhism, but none of them are absolute powers in themselves
>Reincarnation: Yes
Conceptually rebirth is meant to represent a midpoint between reincarnation and annihilation but in practice a lot of Buddhists treat the two synonymously. The nonself can be hard for some to understand.
Side question: Buddhists do not believe that plants or minerals are conscious incarnations themselves, but I hear some other Indian religions do. Which ones?
Is John Lennon history? I don't mean this as a shitpost.
I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?
>>2394046
Yeah it is, honestly it would be neat if /his/ talked about domestic and cultural history more
Born a poor young country boy
Mother Nature's son
All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone.
Sit beside a mountain stream
See her waters rise
Listen to the pretty sound of music as she flies.
Find me in my field of grass
Mother Nature's son
Swaying daises sing a lazy song beneath the sun.
Mother Nature's son.
What the fucking fuckity fuck was this fucking guy's fucking problem? fuck
>>2393971
Old people don't like change.
>>2393971
Daily reminder the only source for those quotes is 20 years after the fact and hasn't been corroborated anywhere else
>>2394126
This. Republicans love to repost this and respond woth this image (without using a real argument) but there is only one shady source that this was ever even said by him.
Found on an island near Vancouver BC
what is it?
2/3
3/3
>>2393842
dimensions?
t looks like maybe it is a sedimentary rock,in which case I suspect that it is not a worked artifact at all, but that the rock happened to break in away that looks unlikely to have happened naturally.
>Revolutionized the field of psychology
>founded the field of psychoanalytic
>plebs and edgy teens nowadays remember him for saying that men have subconscious attractions to their mothers
>SJWs hate him because he said women subconsciously feel envious of men because they have penises.
Greentext /his/ stuff that grinds your gears.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penis_envy
He was a Jew. That's all you need to know.
/thread.
A few of his ideas have become so idiosyncratic that people don't even realize how his thought permeated the public consciousness. His later ideas are were you run into some loopy shit, and he has rightfully received flack over them.
If a king is the monarch leader of a sovereign state;
If an emperor is the monarch leader of multiple sovereign states or a collection of colonies;
Then what do we call the theoretical position of a leader of the world
>>2393472
A caliph.
>>2393472
Head rabbi.
Kosmokratos
>might makes right
>right should restrain might
Which one is true, /his/?
>>2393316
my pepe twitched when i saw your picture
>>2393316
Might is shite
>>2393316
Legitimacy.
The French struggles in Indochina and Algeria are fascinating to me but as an English speaker it is hard to find anything on them. Can anyone dump some English language sources on French colonial wars? Personalities too like Marcel Bigeard etc
>>2393108
>>2393118
>>2393108
Difficult to find sources even in French tbqh. Our Army is nicknamed the "Great Mute". I can recommend movies though. Pierre Schoendoerffer made a bunch abount Indochina, and there's always the movie "The Battle of Algiers"
Why did the West betray Spain during it's most crucial hour? Why were the only nations that supported the Republic turn out to be the Soviet Union and fucking Mexico. Why did thousands go to volunteer to defend democracy but the supposed defenders of democracy tried to block them from going such as in Britain? Was it a lingering feeling of non-interventionism from the end of WW1 or was it just purely out of not caring, someone else's problem? Genuinely interested for an answer.
Due to prevailing public opinion stemming from the unsatisfactory conclusion to WW1 the US was firmly committed to isolationism despite Roosevelt having pro-republican sympathies and attempting to send a small amount of arms to Spain through France. Recently passed "Neutrality Acts" meant that the US could not legally trade arms with ANY belligerent power.
>>2393014
>Why were the only nations that supported the Republic turn out to be the Soviet Union and fucking Mexico.
Because they were literally anarcho militant atheist commies and those were the only two governments that sympathized with that bullshit.
France wanted to help, but the Eternal Anglo diplomatically prevented France from doing so.