Redpill me on the Franco-Prussian war. Why were the French beaten so badly? Why did France think Alsace Lorraine was theirs when the majority of the people spoke in German tongue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War
>>2195954
redpilling isnt just a pol thing anymore faggot
Was it true that the more civil people the softer they are?
>>2195905
yes
>>2195905
It's a lot harder to get out of bed in the morning when you're wearing silk pajamas.
>>2195905
I think it depends and that the pic is a big generalization.
It has to do with incentive. If you've got everything you want there's little incentive to get more, and if you're lacking the incentive gets bigger. This arguably applies to most people, but there will be people living in good times that are ambitious and that will want to get more(strong men) the same way some people will be scared and choose to suffer rather than to risk(weak men).
Pic related
Can someone tell me why so many people think the Rhodeisians were the good guys again?
I dont know much about the conflict.
>>2195994
It's mentally handicapped /pol/tards only.
>>2195994
it's contrarian /pol/acks combined with the fact that Mugabe completely ruined the area after Rhodesia fell, so it's easy to call them the good guys
The phone call that changed history forever
>>2195895
i don't get this meme
>>2195912
the Bogdanoff twins are in close contact with the Rockefellers, they have IQs in the 200s, and its widely speculated that they may be not of this world or in contact with extra-terrestrial life forms.
Why do people do this? Why are people so obsessed with the combat alone when the biggest ways you win a war is better supply and infrastructure?
When people talk about any military engagement whether real or imagined they forget that soldiers need food, clothing, ammo, new weapons when old ones break. Vehicles need maintnence, parts, fuel. You need specialists, many times non combatants.
Why dont people put discussion on wars in the context of infrastructure and supply rather than combat?
This came up due to a convorsation about the possibility of invading russia. To which I brought up infrastructure and supply problems to which he replied "but muh navy tonnage". Then we went to the invasion. I said the only real route is through the black sea and crimea, he said through Kamchatka and Siberia, but what fuckin roads? You need infrastructure not to be ground to a halt as you advance. And siberia is fucking huge.
So. Rant aside. Military supply and infrastructure thread
>>2195854
Because most people have never been in a war. Their closest analogue to war is playing first person shooters on video game consoles. So they try to analogize war on the basis of what they're familiar with, and what they're familiar with tends to gloss over those little details.
That being said, I've noticed, at least on here but also a few other online fora, the opposite trend in the past few years. People shouting "LOGISTICS!" (often with only the vaguest idea of what logistics is) as the justification for any crank policy or dumbass idea. A few weeks back, I had a guy vehemently claim that the biggest tactical mistake the IJN made in WW2 was not blowing up an oiler at Pearl Harbor and instead focusing on the battleships. Any objection as to how this would be easily replaced, wouldn't accomplish their short term objectives, or anything else, was brushed aside with
>Logistics wins wars, ur dumb.
There´s a military saying: "Amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics"
>>2195864
That sounds way worse. They probably thought the oiler cost as much as the battleship when im sure the battleship was much much more expensive
Way worse because to other people they might seem intellectual
*record scrarch*
*freeze frame*
Yep, that's me alright. You're probably wondering how I ended up in this miserable situation.
Why do people always mention the Lviv pogroms but not the 10,000 Ukrainians who were killed by Jews to provoke the pogrom?
>>2195823
Why do people always mention 10,000 Ukrainians who were killed by jews, but not the 230 000 Jews who were killed by reptilians?
>>2195818
That's hot
Asking again, because I only got one response. Whats the consensus on historical author Tim Holland?
>>2195688
shit
>>2195705
Do you have any arguments to back that shitpost up?
it depends on what he's writing about. nothing he's written is particularly academically rigorous but his writing style is engaging. for example rubicon is a good book if a little self indulgent. shadow of the sword is extremly controversial, maybe due to subject matter, maybe due to the fact Holland can't read the primary source languages.
take all pop history with a grain of salt, especially when it appears to take the form of a narrative.
We southerners fucking poor as dirt, but we can get food whenever we like, because of the great climate. You can find food in the trees, in the countryside,in the sea, etc. That is why the first ancient kingdoms were in southern europe: because survival is not an issue here. Winter is at worst cold.
When survival is not an issue, you move on; you create empires, you build temples, schools, you philosophise, you write books, you read them too, and all that.
In northern europe people used to struggle a lot to survive, so working hard all fucking day was required to keepliving.
Nowadays, that survival is not an issue, northeners still mantain this hard work ethic as cultural knowledge.
We southerners never give a shit about much, because as survival was never an issue, we just chilled. All day. And we still do, because it's been in our culture since the first humans inhabited this wonderful place called Southern Europe.
So basically, northeners are 100% focused on working their asses off, and we southerners just realx, take our time, and dedicate our time 50% on working and 50% on having fun. Because 50% is more than enough to survive.
Thoughts?
>>2195668
That's terrible.
Southern Europe developed faster before because the cold North couldn't sustain large agrarian societies to the same degree, and without great agricultural surplus you can't get urban development so easily, and the Mediterrenean enabled easier trade of goods, workers and information.
>>2195668
A good sociological view of the North South divide.
>>2195689
>agriculture
that does have to do with climate, which is what i'm saying here, so basically you're agreing to some degree
But think of Spain and Greece. Spain has vast planes perfect for agriculture, and greece is mostly mountainous. How did Greece develop such a culture when the Iberians and Celts didn't, when Iberia has the better land?
>Filthy Anglo agent """"teacher"""": Class, can anyone tell me what started World War 1?
>Brainwashed Anglofied student: World War 1 was started due to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
WRONG
This is REALLY why World War 1 started. Time to take the train all the way to Red Pill City
The eternal Anglo HATES German economic ascendance more than anything else. This is as true 2017 as it was in 1914. The Berlin-Baghdad pipe-line would have been a game-changer for Germany and the Middle East. This is why Germany had to go. This is why the independent nation of Serbia even exists. It doesn't matter if Ferdinand is never assassinated, the filthy Anglo would have concocted some other scheme or false flag to start a war with Germany. This is also why World War 2 was enthusiastically fought. Almost every major event of the last 200 years has served only to swell the coffers of the biggest robber nation in the history of mankind. NEVER LET THEM CHANGE THE TRUTH
>>2195633
lmaoing at your life
>>2195633
At least you're semi correct.
Maybe more than just semi correct.
The causes of WW1 were many and significant and said railroad was one of them, one that's often overlooked.
People tend to forget that the railroad originally featured Serbia, and the Belgrade-Nis railroad was specifically built by Serbia on Austrian demands with a loan from a French bank that went bankrupt shortly after.
You're wrong when you say it's only the Anglo ™
All the great powers were involved in creating such a stage.
Germany breaking it's alliance with Russia is the single stupidest thing in the period (try blaming that on the Anglo).
However the most retarded thing anyone can say is that a WORLD WAR happened because some dude shot some heir to the throne that everyone hated.
>>2195633
WW1 objectively started when Germany attacked Ryssia and France
Britain's entry to war was a nice addition, but France and Ryssia were enoygh to make it a world war
If you think otherwise, you've been brainwashed into overrating Britain's role
You are walking with your bae these guys slapped her ass. What do you do?
ask them politely but firmly to leave
Fleshcraft them into szlachta, heh.
>>2195606
Bae? What bae? I don't have a bae.
I've noticed a lot of people on here claiming that prisoners were treated very well in the concentration camps,
what do you guys think about josef mengele's "experiments"?
>>2195507
>people on here claiming that prisoners were treated very well in the concentration camps
holocaust deniers aren't people
What the shit is your image?
>>2195585
It's a strange time to be alive, isn't it?
Why do retards keep insisting that the soviet union was just as bad, if not worse than nazi germany? You could make the argument that stalin was worse but the soviet union existed after and before him as well
Are you literally retarded? The Soviet Union wasn't invaded and divided between the occupying forces, fake trials weren't held to kill their leaders and the deploy wasn't banned And made illegal to this very day.
>>2195482
>Why do retards keep insisting that the soviet union was just as bad, if not worse than nazi germany?
Because it was
Kill yourself
>>2195504
And the ideology* wasn't banned and made illegal to this day.
Fucking autocorrect.
No. The Soviet Union collapsed on its own. Which is definite proof that soviet style socialism doesn't work as a socioeconomic system.
*tips
'Sup dude?
the irony is that modern turks worship him yet unironically undermine his legacy
had a fat turk yell at me once because I used a turkish coin to open a can of beer
>>2195458
Women could vote in Turkey BEFORE France and much of Europe. Yet Turks are backwards and misogynistic?!
#TurkishHistoryTheyDontTeachInSchool
When did you realize Ashkenazi Jews are the biggest wewuzers of all times?
VE VERE COHENS UND SCHEIßE!
Hold it, Herr Pollackski. You bist saying zat VE...
Das is right, Herr Deutscher. Wahrlich ve vere Israelites und scheiße. Now ve can lend money on interest to the goyim vivout ze church interfering wiz our business.
But ve don't actually have to cut the tip of our SCHLONGS do ve, Herr Pollackski? I mean I'll just put on zis funny hat here and...
Do you vant to start ze bank or not, Herr Deutscher?
Oy vey...
Ze real Jews will never suspect anything...
Pretty much, Jews today have literally zero connection to the ancient Hebrews/Israelites and aren't even real jews. They gotta keep up the lies though, like being god's chosen people
>>2196021
Genetic test prove Jews are just larping Europeans
Let's talk about "what if" history for a second.
Imagine that the USSR never dissolved and the Berlin wall still stands today. What would the politics be like and how would you be living?
Also, feel free to post your scenarios.
It literally can't happen
In some amazing world where it did, the USSR is an economic misery.
>>2195426
I meant in a hypothetical imaginary situation. I know it can't.
>>2195423
>Let's talk about "what if" history for a second
That's 99% of /his/ though