Was the Texas Revolution the most embarrassing failure by an overlord country to put down a rebellion, ever?
Mexico didn't even lose because of attrition, unfavorable logistics, guerrilla warfare, or any of the usual suspects in why an underdog sometimes manages to upset.
They just straight up got their ass beat by an independence faction which didn't even have a proper army at the start of the conflict due to amazingly terrible war strategy.
>>2348678
It really was, most of the Texan rebel leaders were just con artists and even with so few numbers they still managed to win
It was worse when americans gave the comanches free reign to invade and plunder the mexican countryside
Thats right, Mexico was btfo by an indian tribe with little resistance
Shit was so bad mexican politicians were afraid of finding indians freely roaming Mexico City
>>2348737
Huh? Sam Houston was by all historical accounts a very compassionate, astute, and benevolent guy. He continually showed mercy to enemy combatants, and cared deeply about the well-being of his own troops. He once asked the Tejanos in his army to stay back from an engagement so they wouldn't accidentally get friendly fired in a clash, but they refused because they wanted to fight for him, so he had them wear some identification to prevent any accidental friendly fire.
What was the first question ever asked by man?
Am I a cuck?
>>2348664
>Why do Poles even exist?
>>2348664
Unga rock stick?
Is there a bigger meme organisation than the ICC?
They have no legitimacy since they only prosecute poor African countries. Why don't they prosecute Kissenger? Why don't they prosecute Bush?
You should watch that speech Gadaffi gave to the UN I think you will like it.
>>2348653
They only prosecute who they can get away with prosecuting. Bush was too powerful of a warlord to prosecute, and well protected by the American administrative system still to this day. It is much easier to pick on nations less important to the world stage.
>>2348653
>one verdic says
>karadzic is guilty of joint criminal enterprise with seselj and milosevic
>seselj verdict says
>seselj and milosevic did not participate
>Named the deadliest war in modern African history, the Second Congo War has directly involved nine African countries, as well as approximately 20 separate armed groups.By 2008, the war and its aftermath had caused 5.4 million deaths, principally through disease and starvation,making the Second Congo War the deadliest conflict worldwide since World War II
And yet i never heard about it. Can somebody give me a tldr what it was about? Because i can't understand shit from the wikipedia article.
Interesting facts also welcome.
Also how the hell did small Rwanda beat all of huge Congo in the First Congo War?
Note just how mind-bogglingly huge the combined landmass of all the involved countries is.
>>2347985
Niggers killing each other in Africa, what a surprise.
Does anyone else find the British Raj interesting?
I also like colonial Africa.
bump for interest
>Large scale rape, plunder, murder and economic exploitation is interesting
Thats a weird way of putting it
>>2347351
it is interesting though
How did the ancient Greeks make such gains?
Squatz and oats
>>2347212
Superior Nordic genetics
>>2347212
idealistic sculpting
Thoughts on this man?
Pretty cool guy.
Black Muslim kang that ruins Egypt's economy, feeds the poor and doesn't afraid of anything.
I feel like even /pol/ and /r/the_donald combined couldn't say with a straight face that Mali wasn't at any point in history badass.
Wtf is up with Ghandi
He always stabs you in the back with diplomacy and threatens you with nukes
Slimey bastard
Was he the best statesman of the 20th century? The results surely suggest so
>>2345881
that's not Saddam
>>2345881
that's not Mugabe.
That's not Deng
>i invented calculus!
What is calculus?
>its something i just made up and am now claiming to have invented!!
Oh right on man
>>2342034
>its something i just made up and am now claiming to have invented!!
But thats literally what inventing something means
>>2342034
Virgins pls go.
Imagine explaining calculus to someone who's never heard of it. How would you even? Like the queen of England visits you at your country house and she says she heard you were working on something called the theory of calculus. What would you tell her after hiding all your occult manuscripts in a lockbox?
Out of the three major known ones, which one, in your opinion, is the best/least worst, /his/? Explain why
Christianity is the oldest one, and therefore legitimate. judaism and islam are newer.
>>2351420
Christianity because of its ability to evolve and generate different philosophies. Also because of the fundamental dissatisfaction with the current world it instills in its believers. This facilitates a drive to change the fabric of society, rather than simply to dominate it. I am not a Christian, btw.
>>2351420
Best = Christianity. Teachings are the closes to the Truth. Actually recommends precepts which will advance your soul. Christ conquered death and life and by accepting it and following his teachings we are also saved. A nice mix of Greek philosophy and Near Eastern theological thought. Europeans turned it into something truly unique and aesthetic.
Second it best is Islam. Its a mix of Christianity and Asiatic tyranny.
Worst is Judaism. autistically following a law code, hating everyone else and circlejerking your supposed "chosen blood" that no one cares about.
>Ship an army of African muslims to Spain and encourage them to rape civilians in Madrid
>Describe the oldest cultural/linguistic group in Europe as a "cancer" and drive it to the verge of extinction
>Intentionally bring raccoons to Europe and fuck up the ecosystem
>Bomb the fuck out of Britain and Malta, causing catastrophic destruction of heritage
>Destroy Warsaw and order the destruction of Paris
>Eight decades later
>Autistic shitposters glorify fascism on the basis of "muh European heritage"
I can't even describe fascists as retarded because most retards are well-meaning
>>2349823
>Describe the oldest cultural/linguistic group in Europe as a "cancer" and drive it to the verge of extinction
Who? Greeks?
>>2349829
I think he means ((((Jews)))
>>2349823
>Franco
>Fascist
You don't even know what you're shitposting about, ignoramus.
where did it all go so wrong?
War on Drugs
>>2349484
about 1980 in the US it seems
>>2349486
When will this "war on drugs" is bad meme end?
Why do anglos get so much hate for the Opium Wars? There were no laws stipulating that Opium was illegal. It wasn't the anglos that got the Chinese hooked on it in the first place. Chinese were simply making a consumer CHOICE because the zeitgeist of late Qing China dictated that the demand for Opium was high. Qing workers had seen a decline in living standards because population pressure made competition for scarce resources fiercer, driving wages down in a natural manner. According to good laissez faire Confucian Principles, the Qianglong Emperor fostered small government by pegging the quotas of new officials and tax revenues to the 1790 census, therefore making sure that more Chinese talent and money could be diverted to private enterprise, the true engine of economic growth. The Opium Suppression went AGAINST these principles. Inspector Lin was a true Oriental Despot, breaking NAP and seizing 1.2 KG of private property from honest western merchants, depriving consumers of an opioid that helped relieve pain from farming and dragging boat barges on the silting Grand Canal. When you break NAP, all bets are off. Not to mention that Inspector Lin poured all the Opium IN THE OCEAN, therefore ruining prime oceanic resources before private property laws could divide the sea into parcels. The only way the British, a people embodying the ideal of fair play, could get recompense was to use rightful military force to get compensation for their private property wealth. They were well within their bounds to do so.
>>2349255
>1.2 KG
1.2 Million KG*
>>2349255
Its generally agreed that states can control the flow of imports into their territory.
>>2349255
Furthermore, the British cannot be accused of Imperialism. The British, by law of supply and demand, stumbled upon a good that Chinese valued highly. True to form, the British made innovations in the production of Opium, so that that the average Chinese consumer could afford it, whereas in the past only courtiers in the Chinese court could afford to consume opium for recreational and medicinal purposes. This was a revolution in Chinese capitalist development, creating the first mass market in China connected to international global trade networks. For those who complain "MUH TRADE IMBALANCE," or the wicked slander that the British used opium to reverse the trade deficit caused by the importation of Chinese tea for British silver, this is a grotesque caricature of the facts. According to the laws of supply and demand, there exists a concept called elasticity, or the rate at which the price of a good or service responds to changes in market forces. In the short term, in other words, the British dependence on Chinese tea was inelastic, meaning that the price of tea was high because the tea growing was limited to China. However, in the LONG TERM, the tea market was elastic, and enterprising British entrepreneurs found ways to mass produce tea in India, greatly increasing the volume of tea, and significantly cutting the distance of tea to the British market. All of this cause tea prices to PLUMMET, by the 1850s. This is perfectly in line with classical economic principles. Any British politician would have seen that the tea deficit with China was a spook because, why, the British political class was the first to adopt the liberal economic principles of Adam Smith!
But economic principles yield us yet more insights. If, for example, the Anglo was a rabid imperialist, then why were other nations soon competing to import opium to China, driving down prices further? (cont.)
Does anyone dispute the mistreatment and mass deaths of Soviet POWs under German control? If so why is the Holocaust seen as so impossible to some people?
Also, why does no one ever talk about this?
>It is estimated that at least 3.3 million Soviet POWs died in Nazi custody, out of 5.7 million. This figure represents a total of 57% of all Soviet POWs and may be contrasted with 8,300 out of 231,000 British and U.S. prisoners, or 3.6%. About 5% of the Soviet prisoners who died were of Jewish ethnicity.[5]
>The most deaths took place between June 1941 and January 1942, when the Germans killed an estimated 2.8 million Soviet POWs primarily through deliberate starvation,[6] exposure, and summary execution, in what has been called, along with the Rwandan Genocide, an instance of "the most concentrated mass killing in human history (...) eclipsing the most exterminatory months of the Jewish Holocaust".[7] By September 1941, the mortality rate among Soviet POWs was in the order of 1% per day.[8] According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), by the winter of 1941, "starvation and disease resulted in mass death of unimaginable proportions".[9] This deliberate starvation, leading many desperate prisoners to resort to acts of cannibalism,[7] was Nazi policy in spite of food being available,[10] in accordance to the Hunger Plan developed by the Reich Minister of Food Herbert Backe. For the Germans, Soviet POWs were expendable: they consumed calories needed by others and, unlike Western POWs, were considered to be subhuman.[11]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_mistreatment_of_Soviet_prisoners_of_war#Death_toll
>>2348511
>Does anyone dispute the mistreatment and mass deaths of Soviet POWs under German control?
Naziboos, but not sane people.
> If so why is the Holocaust seen as so impossible to some people?
Because they're the same retarded naziboos.
I mean for fuck's sake, the amount of killing per day was higher in the Rwandan genocide than it was in the Holocaust, and that was with a bunch of people primarily armed with machetes. The ability of the Nazi state to kill people in mass quantities was never in doubt.
It's okay the German race at this very moment is being raped out of existence by Africans and Arabs. Alls well that ends well.
At least they treated the western pows better? How can they tell what Jewish ethnicity looks like?
Why don't Muslim's actually believe in the Qur'an? Why do we vilify and scapegoat a book they don't adhere to, instead of holding the Middle Easterner's responsible for their shite culture?
Islam is cancer and ISIS are the only real Muslims.
>>2348200
Original Image that some faggot would have you believe about the fourth installment in the "polytheist is bad" tetralogy
>>2348200
Cool, it decided not to attach, wicked.