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Why didn't Italy?

>>2134199
They were the bridge between Asia and Europe, they were happy in being complacent because they didn't think they'd have to do otherwise
Spain, England and France decided to make their own lucrative empires, beyond just Europe and the middle east

>>2134199
The Ottomans were the cause of those fucking explorations.

Cockblocked Europe from the Oriental Trade Gravy Train.

So did Italy. Those miserly bastards.

Which is why Ottoman ships were sailing *eastwards* not West.

>>2134090
>to smart

>Tfw to smart to waste extra letters spelling too

>>2134113
tfw to new too post on 4chan

>>2134049

How is southern Scotland not Germanic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztOV2wrrkY

>>2134049
Hopefully never.

>>2134019
Gotta love the Bolivians having their rifles trained on a dead man.

And no, that's a stupid question.

>>2134028
>he's unaware of the meme

>>2134019
Of course!

>>2133923
Have an infallible AI run it
Really though they do "work" in the sense that they, by your own admission, last a long time. No one can possibly see the small shit snowballing over generations that undo empires. Otherwise they wouldn't have let it happen

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>>2133923

This is an easy material question with an easy material answer: Infrastructure.

Things like aqueducts, sewage systems, roads, canals, railroads, telegraphs, power grids and the Internet bind people together into one entity. A well built system will stand the test of time and will go a long way in making shared interests obvious, while making divisions more trivial. It expedites commerce, making things like chain stores plausible which help replace local cultures with a national one. Even better, in the event a conflict does happen it becomes easier for a military to move.

It's most obvious on the local level. Cities with the least divisions (comparatively speaking) are places like NYC which features a citywide subway connected to three feeder networks (NJT, NHRR, LIRR). Same for Chicago with the El, Metra and South Shore line. Hence why both have a unique, uniform culture across those cities. For comparison, Los Angeles still does not have much of a citywide transit network and the divisions are more obvious; someone from Weho will have a very different outlook than someone from Palmdale or Compton. They don't share the same spaces when they commute, they have individual private compartments (their cars) on clogged freeways.

Nationally, it's why things like the railroad land grants and TVA happened. This was so that American culture could be extended into the southwest and south, where it previously was not. Hence why Atlanta and Austin are full of faggots while Mobile and Tallahassee do not.

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>>2134000

Anyway, as it pertains to your specific question:

Infrastructure makes logistics much easier and thus creates greater room for error. A country with an amazing infrastructure can have a totally incompetent leader but won't crash and burn since people's lives will be less directly affected.

For a specific example, compare South Africa Transnet to the National Railways of Zimbabwe. TN's system is mostly electrified, which has proved to be a very good thing as it can run off coal and has low maintence costs. NRZ's system is not, and due to the country's economic problems they can no longer afford fuel. Trains then don't operate, then businesses relying on them cannot reliably ship or receive goods. Traffic piles up in the cities, causing roads to deteriorate, which affects emergency services. Meanwhile the diesel engines inside the locomotives rust away.

Yes? It's a bit overwhelming though, but then again so is 30yw.

>>2133641
Its the definitive work on the Thirty Years War

>>2133662
>>2133664
Thanks for the replays.

>>2133456
>Who the fuck is this guy?
He's Max Stirner, one of the Young Hegelians
>What are some books that you recommend me from this guy?
Ego and it's Own is his main thing
>What the fuck is a "spook"?
A fixed idea that one follows in contrary to your self-interest. Things like God, morality, nation, etc are often identified as spooks, though it's important to understand that not all abstract concepts are spooks. A spook is more about your attitude towards it rather than the thing itself.

>>2133456

An absolute nobody only remembed because the crudely drawn picture of him makes for dank maymays.

Ther are none.

Anything you dont like.

>>2133515
What a retard.

>the tsar deserved it

>byzantine was the sucessor of rome

>holy
>roman
>empire

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>>2133376
>Could the republicans have won?

>>2133380
>50% more likely to have AIDS

>>2133376
>Could the republicans have won?
The UK was cockblocking them from any supplies by setting up the flawed non-intervention committee and pressuring France's red government to cease all assistance to Spain.

>If so, how would things have changed?
Debatable. They would have stayed out of the war just the same, but I imagine they would face a lot more domestic issues with how split up the republican side was and their goals were all over the place.

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>>2133100
>The
>Union
>Of
>Great
>Britian
and
>Whales

>>2133100
>United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
>Northern Ireland
>a kingdom

>>2133100
reich means realm, kaiser means emperor.

>yes, its a bayonet
>and its damaged

>>2133063
Looks like a sword bayonet

The collar could very well have broken off during use. Whether that use was stabbing people or stabbing stuffed dummies is another question entirely.

In all likelihood it got broke because of something stupid.

>>2133067
its a
'sword' bayonet
that would of been used as a sword

>>2133033
Well they gave away literally half of germany. Half went to poland, and the other half got held onto by the USSR. Their folk culture is dead, yes.

>>2133033
TURK

>>2133046
RIP

>>2133322
Hmm? Turks have nothing to do with it.

>>2132837
Yes.

>>2132837
Maybe.

>>2132837
No.

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>>2132571
Brazil definitely

... the trannys... the "Hueh hueh hueh's... the horror

>>2132571
Vietnam. Fuckers beat the Mongols at a fairly strong point in their history and the US at their strongest point. You don't fuck with them in their jungle.

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>>2132607
I'll fuck with Brazil any day

>>2132554
>childhood is whatever I don't like, adulthood is whatever I like

nice spook

>>2132560
>spook

Even little kids (7-12) realise why direct democracy doesn't work.