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>>3388166
>(((Bronstein)))

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Yeah, I mean all Stalin wanted to do was pick his brain.

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>>3388166

When we become illiterate and lose the internet you fucking nerd.

Feudalism provides less services and requires less resources than state centralism.

It'll return whenever the economic surplus in our society declines to such an extent that we can no longer sustain a higher level of social complexity.

Pretty much the only public service feudalism provides is security, and people want more than security.

In addition, a feudal society will generally lose against a centralized state, in terms of both economic and military competition.

We saw this before, when Roman imperialism was replaced by feudalism in the first place. As Europe became poorer, a state became impossible, and people turned to local lords for security.

As prosperity returned to Europe, states began to emerge again and people began to escape from the feudal system towards systems of government that provided more for them.

>>3389018
So post WW3?

>>3388140
Guys so badass they named the historical period after his first name.

Not with that attitude.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

We'll see what happens.

>>3388030

Not remotely surprising familia. Sports are serious business.

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>>3388035
This. Historically sports have always been serious business, it's only modern American sports fans who treat games like going to the movies.

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>>3388030
sports riots are best riots, the muricans have now idea what they are missing out on.

>inb4 multitrack drifting

>>3387985
Because they thought America didn't have the stomach for a long war. They were wrong, but the plan was never to match America on the battlefield, it was just to be too tough and expensive and bloody to easily dislodge.

>even in battles where they were in complete defensive advantage
I really hate this meme. In WW2, while exceptions existed, the defender almost always took more casualties than the attacker when attacks succeeded in securing their objective. The amount of extra losses the attackers took first breaching lines of defense was more than compensated by overrunning all those second echelon guys you inevitably picked up.

>>3387985
They didn't think America cared much about its Pacific possessions and that if they could have their nose bloodied they'd quickly lose interest in a war in Asia. Keep in mind they'd taken territories for several European powers already with little to no repercussions, and they considered themselves a formidable military that had won modern wars, even against major Western powers like Russia.

>>3387985
>how the fuck they think they could win against USA in an attrition warfare with all odds stacked against them?
They didn't. You're assuming the Japanese actually had a plan.

Imperial Japan had this horrendous mentality where they felt the entire world was out to get them, they were entitled to (what they believed was) the same kind of Imperialism that the West was taking part in, and that no matter the odds, they were invincible.

The US forcing open their ports in the 1800s kicked this all off, and their feeling of invincibility started when they won the first Sino-Japanese War. However, the West intervened, forcing them to cede certain territories seized, only for Japan to turn around and win yet another "unwinnable" war against Russia to retake that lost land. They tried to join the West in WW1, but were disappointed when they weren't given the same treatment as the rest of the Western powers at the victor's table. Then you had the Washington Naval Treaty - although it in reality was a godsend for Japan, to the public it seemed like the West keeping them down once more.

Meanwhile, you had the military literally doing whatever it wanted without direction from the central government. The Kwantung Army assassinated the leader of and then invaded and occupied Manchuria all on its own and later was responsible for literally thousands of border incidents, culminating in the Nomonhan Incident with the Soviets in 1939. A similar series of escalating incidents also took place on the Chinese border, sparking war with China in 1937. And, after the Soviets thoroughly slapped their shit and the US was threatening sanctions, the IJA decided it was the perfect time to go invade French Indochina out of nowhere.

>cont

It's easy to take a passage from Bernays and allude to something very sinister and all-inclusive but it doesn't seem to work like that in reality where there are many many channels of information all competing for a limited attention with often contradictory claims on the subject-- only rarely (like in the World Wars) do we see channels of information almost completely throttled with power granted by crisis conditions in order to induce a complete conformity of opinion.

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Childhood is when you idolize Socrates
Adulthood is realizing that Thrasymachus makes more sense

Christians say forgive your enemy, Muslims are not so polite

>>3387959
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_of_the_Jews_in_Europe

There weren't any sizeable non-Christian minorities in Europe. Except the Jews, and the Jews had various discrimination policies against them.

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>>3387956
Nope. In fact they didn't really depict them at all because that would be idolatry, but they described them to look like this.

>>3387971
>them
one class of angels*

>>3387984
No angel was depicted as "dude with wings". Angels could take on a form of a human (like the ones in Sodom), but they didn't have wings, they just looked like humans.

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Hi, this is OP.
Posted the wrong pic

>more humane
muslims castrated their african slaves

>>3387802
>more humane slavery

Doublespeak.

>>3387833
So did Westerners

I assume they weren't the best of friends seeing as how Nazis actively opposed and physically assaulted Germany commie parties, but surely something positive must have been said to support the non aggression pact

>>3387839
>Something positive
>"Ayo Stalin u want haf of polan and shieet"

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>>3387839
Enemy collaboration is the best collaboration

https://youtu.be/8kZ5C4YSqZM
first for canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQ-X34BKvKk

>>3387768
it's Deutschland Erwache, or Heil Hitler Dir.

>implying China would cause a war due to colonial grudges instead of America starting a way due to it's hegemonic decline and refusal to accept spheres of influence for rising powers

The conflicts of the modern world are economic.

>>3387694
>I think race wars are done in Europe
Nigga what?