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>>2209129
A crutch with half a scissors on it?

>>2209138
>half a scissors
is called a scissor

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>>2209129

There's this.... thing.

>Hurrr duuurrrrr their borders touch so logistics don't matter.
Because soldiers magically get supplied as long as they're on native soil right? Fuck off /v/

>>2208607
>X vs Y
>guaranteed replies

>>2208615
Logistics of going across the desert is no longer an issue, but you still need to supply the troops across the border.

This is X | Y scenario rather than X | ........................................ | Y scenario

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>we missed out on the Gaelic supremacist ethnostate that Collins wanted and instead got Dev's pissy Anglophile theocracy
It's not fair lads

>>2208581
>History's worst politicians
>Posts one of the best politicians to have walked this earth

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>>2206720
No, Lesotho is

No, Ethiopia was

Absolutely.

>inb4 /lit/ sjws

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyJFRTJgPbU

>>2202621

http://www.meforum.org/441/why-arabs-lose-wars

>>2202625
Very in-depth and interesting. In following the Syrian war, I've definitely noticed the trends (obsession with pride, lack of lateral communication, lack of combined forces, sectarianism) this article talks about.
This makes me wonder though exactly what has changed in Arab culture since the military successes of the Caliphates.

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>>2202671
>what has changed in Arab culture since the military successes of the Caliphates.
legitimacy. Its hard to create a strong army in an unstable state that has to constantly police its own populace. Its also hard to put the state before tribal politics if the aforementioned state is just a meme created by foreigners drawing lines n the sand.

>>2201551
I think it's conception (the Reformation) cleared the way for the Enlightenment and a lot of important scientific innovation, as well as some interesting philosophy and writing, and is thus a key event in history and advancement of western society.

However, I don't really have any strong opinions on the religious doctrine itself. I'm not religious, so I tend to just lump it in with the rest.

>>2201551
I think it was a poorly handled mistake that spiraled into decades of brutal warfare and centuries of animosity which last to this day.

The Council of Trent was what the reformation should have been: An emphases on anti corruption while maintaining the theological integrity of Western Christianity.

>>2201551
it's basically Christian hipsterism

>>2134801
Books
>http://www.freebookspot.es/Default.aspx

Here's a bunch of art stuff.
>http://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/titles-with-full-text-online

A bunch of Buddhist and Indian stuff (there's a great 'Indology' section towards the bottom)
>http://www.ahandfulofleaves.org/Library.html

A bunch of (mostly ancient) Middle Eastern stuff
>https://oi.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oriental-institute-museum-publications-oimp

>http://www.oapen.org/content/

Here's the US Department of Defence Military Intelligence 1944-1998.
>http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dodmilintel/index.html

Lesser Known Books
>http://www.ebook3000.com/History---Military/list_55_1.html

general torrent database but I found some books that I couldn't find elsewhere
>http://btdb.in/

seems to be public domain exclusive but I think some of you might like it with books like "Private Life of Napoleon Bonaparte" or "The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms" by Newton.
>http://www.bookyards.com/en/categories

>https://monoskop.org/log/

>http://avxhome.se/ebooks/history_military

>http://documentaryheaven.com

>http://www.pssurvival.com

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I want to get into philosophy, and I know to start with the Greeks, but... where do I start with the Greeks?
Also, thanks OP for all these links.

>>2134878
There's a chart on the wiki in the /lit/ sticky.

better than one drop rule autism I think

I grew up around Colombians in NYC and it only recently dawned on me how "white" they look, I always remember other Hispanics hating Colombians for being conceited and not realizing why, made me kek.

>>2217427
Colombians are pretty annoying desu. They are thughish scum or conceited pseudos

>>2217134
thick forest would give euros the advantage

an archer cant see nearly as far in the trees
and a horse is cumbersome in the brush

ambush tactics

>>2217134
Time

Thats how they defeated the mongols. Time gave them the advantage they needed. Mongols power divided, Europe had half a century's time to build up defenses/alliances/restructure their governance/etc.

>What could Europe actually do
Not much. Mongols were utilizing OODA loop within enemy territory. Subutai had already planned, had spies reporting on the European powers for months/years at time. So if they really wanted to, they can scale up the invasion and europe wouldn't even know what hit them.

>>2217134
Read up on the second Mongol invasion of Hungary and the third Mongol invasion of Poland. Thats how you stop Mongols.

>>2216948
Of course not. That's why all dogs go to heaven.

>>2216952
Will it be the same heaven as humans anon?

>>2216948
Where can myself a fine pupper exactly like this?

>>2216812
There are a lot of books on that topic.
An easy to read book is "Why the West Rules--for now" by Ian Morris

colonialism
safe distance from major wars (western europe's bloodiest war was the 30year war, no ottoshits, no mongols, no russians)
sufficient resources till you can exploit other places

>>2216812
Organized production, industrial revolution, trade with far away colonies.

>>2216736
The treaty was only to become involved against German aggression, and the Soviets got involved a lot later, anyway.
Although the western allies almost did go to war with the Soviets when they were thinking of getting involved in Finland.

>>2216736
>Operation Pike
They planned it, but it would've been suicide.

>>2216736
They planned to intervene on behalf of Finland but were too late like the rest of the entire beginning of the war.

>>2216507
They already had a sphere of influence in the Arab world as a bulwark against turkey, and the Arabs had an extreme dislike for Israel. Stoking that rivalry ensured a higher demand for soviet military equipment.

>>2216507
Because Israel decided to lean to the US, obviously.
>Russian communists
Man, communist is not a nation.

>>2216617
>>2216507
they pulled a bigger Tito on USSR and went full CIA

>1948 USSR officially the first country to grant Israel de jure recognition
>Israel marxist state with Stalin portraits and USSR flags everywhere
>Maipai, Marxist party in Israel, and was the dominant force in Israeli politics.
>Gurion was a member of the state sanctioned EKP (Poaleĭ-Tsion); kommunisticheskaia partiia (Poaleĭ-Tsion) USSR Communist Party.

>American Secretary of State John Foster Dulles refused to concede that there was such a position as neutralism. To him, countries had to be either for the United States or for the Soviet Union, for capitalism or for socialism. For Dulles and the oil companies he had represented as a corporate lawyer, the Middle East was a giant pool of oil to be guarded for U.S. corporations.
>To Eisenhower, the Arabs offered assets — the Arab states were useful for ‘containment’ — while Israel constituted a liability to American interests.”

>US afraid of success of USSR in Eastern Europe and Israel
>US trying to wedge itself in between USSR and Israel
>Seeing Israel won the war and seeing the success of USSR establishing Israel, US tries to take Israel away from USSR
>US Middle East Peace Initiative was explicit. Israel should be integrated into the region, and Israel should not see itself as “alien” to it, and its Arab reality.
>The US open goals for Israel to accept an end to Zionism.
>1950-1953 Gurion gets solicitations from west to break loyalty with USSR
>US foreign policy objectives in the Middle East opposed to Israel, and skillfully removed from USSR-sphere
>US objective was to remove Israel from USSR and dissolve it to US-led Arab ME
>Soviet Union witnesses Gurion now moving with loyal to west, breaking the pact, as Tito did
>1950-53 end of USSR-Israeli friendship, US successfully takes Gurion
>1950s USSR lost loyalty of communist Israel, which it created, is now hostile towards it

http://www.samizdat.com/rinkreview20.html

Yeah Angela is definitely on the spectrum

>>2216175

To be fair, Germans were acting like a bunch of autistic retards ever since the early 19th century.
They called Indo-European languages Indo-Germanic for no reason except to make themselves feel special.

>>2216184
>People call something whatever they'd like in their own language
sad. I bet you like to control how other people act.

1. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, slayer of fascism and architect of the most prosperous period in American history, stay mad stormniggers
2. Abraham Lincoln
3. George Washington
4. Ulysses S. Grant
5. Lyndon B. Johnson

Gee, he's not there. Check again some other time.

>>2215861
>LBJ
>top 5 president

Are you trolling right now

>>2215861
>FDR
>top 5 president
>not 1 dictator
Are you trolling right now