Has any one artist contributed more to their nation's sense of nationalism and patriotism than John Phillip Sousa?
inb4 the Austrian Corporal
>>2291460
kek
But Wagner was very influental in german nationalism
>>2291429
Hoffmann von Fallersleben
Why have city states fallen out of fashion?
>>2291279
Because they typically ended up being annexed by non-meme states. That being said....
>monaco
>luxumbourgh
>San Marino
>Singapore
might is right
>>2291279
>ROMan empire
Empires are just very powerful city States
Is 'Hitler interference' the new 'stab in the back' meme?
>>2291189
As in it started as soon as the war ended, and was debunked decades ago, yes.
>>2291189
richard spencer is a controlled shill. hitler is dead and should stay dead. fuck ethnic germans. all white people should unite.
>>2291189
Yes. It was only because of Hitler's willingness to take risks that France was even conquered. When he left High Command on their own, they gave him disasters like Kursk.
Reminder that the original OKW plan for the Battle of France involved a two-year slugfest and optimistically around 1 million German casualties.
Who was the strongest disciple?
>>2290905
Peter
>>2290906
/thread
Judas.
Why were nomads so strong?
>>2290889
lots of weightlifting competitions?
>>2290889
Harsh lifestyle.
High mobility
Low cost of living
Low downtime
Effective warfare utility
The myth of a Flood that kills off almost the entire human race is present in various cultures around the world, from Mesoamerica, to Greece, to Mesopotamia, to India, to Australia.
What could be the origin of this legend?
>>2290877
There are 165 major rivers in the world and thousands of minor rivers.
According to wiki pages, roughly 20-30 floods hit each year, atleast recorded ones on wiki. I suspect the number of actual floods happening per year is in hundreds.
If we assume 30 minimum each year, over, the past 2000 years, thats roughly 60,000 years. Over the span of 10,000 years, that's around 200,000 major floods.
A myth coming from few of those is not out of ordinary.
The first agricultural civilizations formed on the banks of rivers which flooded every year. Some floods were bigger than others. A story about a REALLY big flood is basically inevitable.
>>2290877
Ancient aliens, like everything that links civilizations
>Jesus canonically handpicks St Peter to be the foundation stone on which he will build his church
>over a thousand years later, your obese drunkard king decides to starts his own new church so he can legally divorce and fugg more bitches
>tfw present day: "hurr durr Cathlicks aren't christyunn"
>>2290698
Ever notice how Catholic Anglos are the most based? I feel their "church" has done more damage than history would like to admit.
Is it fair to compare the church that St. Peter founded to the corrupt, decadent beast that the papacy is today?
>Protestants
why isn't he seen as evil as Genghis Khan
is it because he is part of the Western world?
'barbarian' memes
>>2290300
He spread his culture instead of destroying others. He also learned to adopt some of the ways of the Middle Eastern people later in his life, proving that he wasn't just a bloodthirsty warlord like the Mongols. Also, he's possibly the greatest military genius this world has ever seen and deserves respect for that.
>>2290311
Greater genius than Khan or Hannibal?
What if the republic of Novgorod had beaten Muscovy instead? How would the world be different? Would a Russian republic have been for the better or worse?
>>2289799
Who knows?
>>2289799
Idk
Russia would evolve as a burgher mercantile power instead of an expansionist empire.
The world would be a lot better of.
Did the nazis loose the war at stalingrad or did they loose it a Kursk later that year?
Not one battle decided the war.
A mix of having to fight on multiple fronts, not focusing on Moscow, Hitler disregarding his commanders to take control himself among other things.
>>2289653
So loosing Paulus' army wasn't that devastating?
I mean, Stalingrad was at least a turning point right?
From America's perspective the generals wrote up war plans not long after Barbarossa that assumed the USSR would be knocked out of the war by 1943. Was the resilience of the USSR a complete surprise to everyone?
At what point is it acceptable to take up arms against ones own government?
At what point can you consider things bad enough to consider that a reasonable alternative to protest and negotiation?
>>2289459
>acceptable
>>>
Those who can't hold onto the reigns are unacceptable
>>2289459
>At what point is it acceptable to take up arms against ones own government?
when they fail to provide the benefits of government.
Once you are ready to die for your cause.
If you only incite a revolution then sit back while the tanks roll over others, you are a shitbag and probably French.
Thread failed on /pol/. Let's see here.
So a point of criticism of USA and modernism brought up by Guenon, Evola, Gobineau and others is the lost of hierarchy.
The need of a rigid caste system with a "priestly" / "warrior"/ whatever caste that rules over the rest, who are deemed to be completely degenerate. While indeed it guarantees an order, imo it's also explicit that this is a double edged sword, for it exposes itself grealty to abuses, exploitation, elitism. We all know that elites are majoritary degenerates. Traditionalists argue that this is because: either the caste degenerates or it's infiltrated or because le kali yuga.
But, how are we sure that high castes weren't degenerate even in the past and that the pure perfectly priestly caste isn't just an idealization of something that didn't really exist? Of course, righteous rulers always existed as well, but that doesn't means that the caste system is perfect either.
Several imperial castes in China were of peasant (ie lower caste) origin. Abuse/degeneration of brahmin caste is mentioned since centuries before Christ in India.
Therefore, are rigid castes just an idealized vision of exploitation? Or is social mobility and democracy (perhaps not in its modern form) superior?
>>2289267
Hierarchy is always going to exist. Whether or not its (((bankers))) or kings who share your ethnic ingroup, nothing will change the fact that there is a top and a bottom. This is simply reality.
As for social mobility, the idea the hierarchical systems don't have them is false. In the Middle Ages a peasant could move up the social latter in the span of several generations. While this slow and steady approach may not be exciting, it doesn't change the fact that it isn't there.
Societies that have caste systems today (India) do pretty good.
inb4 some fucktarded fedora compares India to the USA or Switzerland in order to criticizes it.
>>2289293
>India does pretty good
A great division of labor was needed back then.
My name is Shirvan and welcome to Caspian Report
>>2288897
Not a bad channel lad.
He does good stuff and I was surprised at how objective he was when shit hit the fan in his country, recently.
>>2288897
another other channels/media like this? geopolitical stuff from unconventional perspectives that isn't shit/heavily biased
Post strange weapons from history. Pic related, throwing knife from east Africa
>>2288368
>okay obongo I have a weapon idea
>okay
>so you know axes
>...yes
>and also spears
>dingus this better not be another retarded fucking schematic
>no no seriously, right
>okay
>so axes and spears
>right
>and also axes
>right
>and we throw it
>dingus this is why we aren't kangz
>>2288416
it doesn't look like a bad idea in a place where proper armour is not that much of a thing
>>2288416
>doesn't look like a European weapon therefore completely retarded and unusable
What does /his/ think of H.P Lovecraft?
>>2287959
He was cuck afraid of a lot of things. Basically a neet of his time. But he was talented at least.
>>2287967
Sounds like me. Thats why i think i like him so much because i can relate to him so damm much
>>2287959
100% sure he would have posting on /pol/ if he were born 100 years later.