Redpill me on the Xiongnu, /his/.
>>3300594
Chinese-attacking Huns/Proto-mongols
>>3300594
Ancient central asian super power. Could field >300K cavalry at time for war.
But Han' destroyed their empire. Remnants of the old super power tookover Eurasian tribes and formed the Huns. Lasted until last of the Xiongnu died off (with Atilla)
A confederation of steppe tribes. Western Xiongnu had also Slavics/Germanics whereas Eastern Xiongnu had Iranics, Tungusics, Mongolians, Turkics etc
Red pill me on Shi XiangGu. How did she, an asian women, become to most successful pirate in history?
>>3300523
made up bullshit. To show how abominable women are when they don't act like them
So, the /pol/ Jewish control scheme is a load of shit obviously, but it is no lie that Jews always manage to become prominent and powerful members of society, far more percentage wise than others. Why is this? Genuinely curious.
Also another related question: Why do Jews seem to get outcasted and scapegoated throughout European history i.e poisoning water wells etc, why them?
>>3300473
>yeah sure jews are rich and powetful but they couldn't POSSIBLY be colluding with each other and working together to further their tribal interests...right guys? r-right?
don't worry you will swallow the redpill in whole eventually
>>3300473
>So, the /pol/ Jewish control scheme is a load of shit obviously, but it is no lie that Jews always manage to become prominent and powerful members of society, far more percentage wise than others. Why is this? Genuinely curious.
Jews have mobile careers, doctors, lawyers, film makers, they've never been able to have immobile careers because they had to move around a lot and now its just their tradition.
>Why do Jews seem to get outcasted and scapegoated throughout European history i.e poisoning water wells etc, why them?
A religious minority whose religion also claims that yours (Christianity or Islam) is wrong and false, they also do strange things and have strange habits. Oh and you also happen to owe money to them as well as half the town because they're the only people allowed to loan money, so when things get a bit tough, its a good opportunity to "wipe out" that loan you have to pay back.
>>3300484
My redpill was in reverse, I use to be a /pol/tard until I realized that all Jewish people getting together and having control of the world was just silly, and there are no real "global elites" somehow ruling everybody. Extremely rich and powerful corporations maybe but not Jews ruling over human society like some kind of demigods
Is the winter on the eastern front overrated? In all my life I've always heard people proclaim that it was general winter who defeated the germans. Is it true?
I mean could the germans have taken Moscow if it wasn't like -30 Celsius and instead it was like the middle of june? Same thing applies to the stalingrad area.
>>3300465
>tfw hitler believed that because he used shorts at -10° when he was a kid the german army could conquer russia in winter
Winter has nothing to do with the shitty and dusty Soviet roads putting upwards of half your machines out of service.
Winter has nothing to do with the Soviets' scorched earth policy towards the railroad network, forcing you to rebuild track and service facilities, operating them at low capacities, and having to deal with the poor roadbed by using older and lighter locomotives.
Winter has nothing to due with partisans destroying said railway lines once you've rebuilt them.
Winter has nothing to do with the scorching hot summers requiring your horse-drawn supply lines to stop frequently for water breaks, or outbreaks of disease immobilizing them.
Winter has nothing to do with the literally thousands of types of vehicles you use, taken from all over Europe, and the resulting maintenance nightmare that follows when you need spare parts for all of them.
Winter has nothing to do with the millions of Soviet reservists being called up every month and fanatically defending every inch of ground.
And of course, there's the muddy spring and autumn seasons where mechanized units are basically immobile.
In short, winter was a pretty big deal, but there were a million other factors that were just as serious and weren't related to it.
Nah, it's the thawing snow and ice making seas of mud that really fucks you up, in winter at least the roads are solid
What ancient civilizations are modern day Iraqis related to? Are Northern Iraqis different from Southern Iraqis?
I read that all iraqis, aside from a few tribes (such as Jabouri), have very little arab admixture and crusader dna. And that they are their own unique Arabized ethnic group in Middle east.
Im not talking about Assyrians or Kurds. Im talking about the ones that consider themselves "Arab."
I was looking into this, because i met an iraqi guy at uni who considers himself arab, and he looked weird as fuck. Olive skin, tall, and hairy as hell.
>>3300430
I heard Marsh Arabs are probably the genetically closest to Chaldeans and Babylonians. And that some Iraqi Arabs chart closer to Iranians then other Arabs, though that might be implicating that they are Arabized Iranians considering that Baghdad and most of Central and Eastern Iraq were considered literal parts of Pars/Far/Persia for a long ass time before the rise of the Arabs.
>>3300430
They're descended from Arabian tribes
>>3300430
No ancient ones, but Umayyad and later.
Meet Heinz Guderian, the alpha general who had the balls to challenge Hitler the manlet on many cases
>>3300219
>Challenges Hilter
>Serves in Hitler's army
???????????
>>3300219
But during the july 20 plot he refused to help the plotters by sending his school tanks to arrest nazis
can we end the 'All Hitler's military decisions were terrible' meme, btw?
Hitler was a lot more aware on military matters than most realize, and many times made smarter choices than Manstein and Guderian. Take his plan to secure Kiev prior to an attack on Moscow. The eastern front would've collapsed sooner had they not.
I'm not even a Nazi, i'm a raging Tankie, but this 'lol hitler was le dumb idiot, would've won if he listened to guderian' shit is tiresome.
Historical Music Thread?
I have found that Irish or Irish-Based songs are of a bizarrely good quality regardless of context.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8wgrZ6t5BA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ot7amDyqbY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0zBlHlnR4Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUcTsFe1PVs
Part of the epic of Gilgamesh, sung in Sumerian and played on a Sumerian gish-gu-di
>>3300202
https://youtu.be/GbOCob23pw4
https://youtu.be/IzRhFH5OyHo
I often hear that Italy performed poorly in WW2 due to the Army being in a poor state and worse than it was in WW1. But this begs the question, why?
If Mussolini improved and industrialized Italy, and the military budget was increased, why on earth was the army in such a bad state?
Shithouse officers and a resulting lack of motivation, no inter-service cooperation, different units receiving different pay for the rank, Mussolini withholding equipment from offensives and then complaining when they don't advance fast enough. It was pretty much a shitshow the average soldiers valor or skill couldn't do much about
>>3300047
Okay, but what about the material issues? Divisions not having enough equipment, barely enough men mobilized, etc?
>>3300002
Luigi Cadorna being a terrible commander isn't just a meme. It is a meme, but it is a meme based firmly in truth.
Whats wrong with nudism?
As long as you are hygienic I see no problem to it.
>>3299966
It's some religious bullshit basically.
>>3299966
Clothes were invented because of awkward spontaneous erections
>>3299982
This would be all we wore if that was the case.
Now, thanks to my book; people talk about Auschwitz, Hiroshima, and Dresden all in one breath.
But only 80,000 people died in Hiroshima?
>>3300065
no you firthy gaijin 1 mirrion peopre died in hiroshima and nagasaki
>>3299951
Someone watched that long ass video
So we can all agree that the Yorkists were the good guys right?
Both were the bad guys, it was just an autistic English aristocratic feud
>>3299936
>Plantaganets
>English
Of course, Edward IV was legitimate, and the line was usurped by the Tudors. Richard didn't kill those kids: Tudo propaganda.
Richard III was valiant and strong, and died as a result of that Valor
Well, /his/?
>>3299900
foreskins
>>3299900
G*d's blessing
Inherited wealth, intellect, scheming, and being a dick.
Jesus was a communist. Why did communists persecute Christians if Jesus followed communism?
>>3299823
Jesus was the leader of a Jewish doomsday cult. Nothing more, nothing less. He certainly wasn't a communist.
>Advocate charity
>Get called a communist
Gas thyself.
>tfw you let the greatest empire in world history die
tbf I think he was like 14 when he was deposed
>>3299791
What the fuck was he going to do? the WRE was completely unable to muster an army that would be required to retake the now much poorer italian region, and the ERE was content to keep in the balkans and anatolia and politic itself to death.
>>3300037
obviously he was supposed to take that spear and personally kick the barbarians out of the empire's borders according to great man theory
Does anyone have a source on what the weather was like in the Soviet Union in April-May of 1941 and how it would effect combat operations? Whenever someone says that Barbarossa should have been done in the spring people usually respond with rain and mud keeping that from being possible, but I haven't found anything detailing the weather at the time.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputitsa
>>3299801
>mobile
>look at me everyone I'm out having a life
get off 4chan
>>3299816
>implying i'm not laying in bed, getting comfy and waiting on greens about my waifu.