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>>2115838
That image is from Rhodesia's Bush War it looks like.
Mandela undoubtedly did some terrorist activity in his youth, but he went out of his way to avoid directly killing anyone. His work was mostly based around sabotaging infrastructure and destroying empty buildings.

>>2115838
>he went out of his way to avoid directly killing anyone. His work was mostly based around sabotaging infrastructure and destroying empty buildings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Street_bombing

speaking objectively, it wasn't an 'evil' empire. At the end however, it was largely controlled and hijacked by very militaristic and idealistic officials.

The Japanese empire was actually great allies with the British initially and even sided with the allies during World War I. This alliance also allowed Japan to model their navy after the British, hence becoming a great naval superpower within a very short time. But this alliance also largely influenced the Japanese on British colonialism and Japan soon started to see that it as an empire, was starting to lack materials that it as an empire needed to modernize.

What the Europeans were doing in China wasn't exactly helping either. The Japanese who participated, further emphasized their point that there were only aggressors and victims in this world in that period.

So Japan set out to heavily militarized and put a great emphasis on their military. Military matters soon started to govern civil matters. This emphasis soon started to lead to ballooning of two branches, the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Imperial Japanese Army. In fact, each had their own separate ground forces and air forces. They both believed in different areas to expand too with the army wanting to go north and the navy wanting to go south. My point is that Japan at that point lacked cohesion and their command was almost schizophrenic.

But like how there were many different bad people (or I would say, heavily brainwashed and militant), there were also many good men who wanted truly good things. For example, Iwane Matsui feevously wanted an independent Asia and was distraught when he realized Prince Asaka's hikacking of his troops to commit atrocities like this in Nanjing.

I currently am in Japan and talked to a few older folks who maintained that was what they wanted, hoped for too - an independent Asia. What the militaristic leaders might have wanted could have been different.

On my phone. Sorry about typos.

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China? Really? Fighting China? Nice job fuckos you had everything you needed to be a sweet ass country forever, Sweet bushido and samurai traditions, a mostly safe island homeland, homogenous population with little internal strife, westernization going well.

Colonialism ruined everything for Japan, and every other 19th century power to some extent. Colonialism is too short term a policy unless you settle the land America style, and even then it still usually ends up poorly.

I mean fuck, Japan is still pretty sweet, but its Nintendo, anime, porn sweet, when I should be samurai and yamato sweet.

Living proof that karma doesn't exist.

>>2115752
Based, Bismarck tier diplomatic genius.

>>2115752
Flawed genius

go back inna woods and revert to hunting and gathering then

Protip: you literally won't :^)

life is still better if we maintain the illusion

>>2115675
define "average person", "better off", "the world" and "nightmarish hellscape" and we can have a discussion.

>>2115587
'Merica.

the first crusade, so much shit just went perfectly right for the crusaders

they really had no business winning that

The Seven Years' War and American Revolutions, as draining as they were to British coffers, were also costly for the ancien régime of France. Their participation in the American Revolution alone, for instance, had cost over one billion livres, all paid for by high-interest loans. Though Louis XVI had attempted Enlightenment-era reforms, such as the abolition of serfdom and tolerance towards non-Catholics, in the end it seemed that every reform he offered just fueled the popular desire for more. On July 14, 1789, these increasing resentments boiled over and the Bastille was stormed.

After seeing the American example, and now the French crisis, the monarchs of Europe did not take this republican threat idly. Once the nascent Republic declared war against the Bourbon Emperor of Austria, and the imprisoned French monarch Louis and his wife, Marie Antoinette, were executed by guillotine they closed ranks. This became known as the War of the First Coalition. But the coalition fell apart, and France's victory in the war stunned the world.

By the turn of the century a daring officer would rise through the republican ranks following his campaigns in Italy and Egypt. This man, Napoleon Bonaparte, would transform the frail Republic into a powerful and terrifying Empire.

>>2115377
>Leave the aggression and warfare to the Fr*nch.
So that Britain has to save them again like in WW1 and WW2?

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>>2115395
>Britain
>Saving anyone

Pretty sure WW1 was won by the French and WW2 by the Americans

>mfw a deluded bong thinks he's relevant near me

>>2115410
>muh opinions are facts
Fuck off.

So nobody could grab them by their hair in combat.

>>2115372
>>2115378
Not true. I heard from a person studying Japanese history it was because a bald top made their helmets stay on better. On top of that, it probably symbolized you were a devoted warrior and all that honor shit. Not every guy did it though Some would also just have "buzz cuts" or extremely short hair too.

The memespeak on this board is getting out of hand.

>>2115281
>too

> tfw home nation is too irrelevant

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>tfw so intelligent that I became a nationalist again

>>2115182
Fantastic piece of work that produced a fundamental shift in Oriental studies.

>>2115182
Lousy piece of sjw propaganda.

>>2115182
Pretty decent piece that didn't do much of note but still was noteworthy.

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>>2115109
Yes.

>>2115117
Any solid sources (that aren't the bible) saying he did so?

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>>2115126
Josephus' Testimonium Flavianum attests to Jesus performing miracles. Skeptics will say this is an interpolation added by medieval scribes along with language about Jesus being the Christ. However unlike the messianic claims, miracle working was commonly attested to in Jewish history so it is entirely possible that Josephus could have conceded that Rabbi Yeshua performed miracles.

Isn't that what Serbian nationalism was about in the breakup?

>>2115119
For South Slavs, yes.
But I'm talking about uniting all Slavs together in a union.
The closest we came was the Visegrád Group, but sadly it was absorbed into the UN

>>2115107
Any sort or recent pan-slavism was going to be dominated by Russia/the Soviet Union, which none of the other slavic nations had a interest in happening. No chance.

>>2115065
they da been the greatest rulers of all time if whitey could just stay the fuck out they business

>>2115065
Europe isn't a country.

>>2115168
They were a segregated slave dictatorship ruled by black devils.

How did such a small virus manage to get a hold on and spread through such a large host?

Divine intervention

>>2115061

White privilege

>>2115005
White men on 2017

>>2115005
You do know that all of that's bullshit right?

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>>2115009
so sorry

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Stalingrad by Antony Beevor.

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>>2114977

>>2114984

NO. Don't ever recommend Menzies. It has absolutely no scholarly merit and is complete and utter pseudo-historical drivel. Menzies is not a historian and he has very little proof for any of his claims.