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Was the Russian Empire the most powerful state in the world? I mean sure the British Empire was more influential and larger but still the Russian Empire possessed more raw power(much more population in the core, powerful land army) so they were able to directly project power in mainland Europe. I also feel like the British were always in advantegous position just because of their geography which allowed them to scheme and exploit other's to achieve it's own goals.
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>>2018478
Nice b8
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>>2018478
bait I know but i will nibble a little...
no, russia had larger population, although not massively larger, but it had far greater difficulty in mobilizing its available resources, due to being relatively backwards in both administration and technology, particularly due to the continuing practice of serfdom.
Russia had a lower GDP as well limiting its potential on the geopolitical stage, as did its limited outlets to the atlantic and pacific. it had potential power but relatively little effective power
britain on the other hand had global reach, a very high GDP and agricultural productivity meaning that its effective power was greater
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>>2018687
what was the British "effective power"? yes they managed to gather an impressive colonial empire but when they were clearly unable to directly confront mainland European powers(they also didn't have to as they are an island), look how were they getting absolutely raped everytime they went to actual war which wasn't shooting up some tribesmen with spears
it only took for Germany to unite to completely ruin muh Pax Britannica and erase their doubtful influence on the continent(and in consequence wipe out their colonial empire)
Russians on the other hand directly confronted both the French and the Germans - mainland powers aiming to dominate Europe and they decisively beat both of them and then took control of half of Europe
USSR was a level of domination the British Empire never achieved
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Constantinople, Antioch, Alexandria, Mecca and Medina should be independent city states
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>>2017823
>Antioch
Doesn't really exist anymore.
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>>2017831
If it was
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>>2017823
And Jerusalem
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Why didn't Spaniards and Portuguese immigrate to North America, even in recent history when it was clear their colonies had failed?
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There's no direct link between north american trade nodes and sevilla's
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>>2017591
>Why didn't Spaniards and Portuguese immigrate to North America, even in recent history when it was clear their colonies had failed?
Spaniards in the colonies are probably wealthier than other Europeans in the US.Mexico being shit doesn't mean that the Spaniards there are not wealthy.All the high caste in LATAM is from European descent
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>>2017878
I once heard that. The more Indian blood you had in you, the poorer you are, at least in many Latin American countries.
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ITT:Battle that if the winners had lose the whole Western civilization would be fucked 2016-11-29 15:16:06 Post No.2017573
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ITT:Battle that if the winners had lose the whole Western civilization would be fucked
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>pic related
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The siege of vienna
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>Americans spent almost 15 years without drinking a drop of wine or beer (unless you were a mafia mobster).
>In the 20th century
How did this affect the biological development of those unfortunate enough to spend their young adult years during the Prohibition?
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But that's wrong.
Prohibition was a joke if you wanted to get some hooch you were going to get it.
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My grandparents ran hooch and they weren't mobsters. Bootlegging was super common. That and almost everyone knew how to brew their own beer.
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>>2017305
alcohol consumption did drop dramatically during prohibition, though.
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Is creating Hierarchies a part of Human Nature /his/? Is a functioning non-Hierarchal society impossible?
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>>2016181
>Is creating Hierarchies a part of Human Nature /his/?
Yes, the vast majority of people are idiots that want to be told what to do.
>Is a functioning non-Hierarchal society impossible?
No, it would just require everyone to be an ubermensch.
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>>2016185
Basically this.
Also, the more humans there are, the more social complexity is needed to process information and coordinate different groups.
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>>2016181
human nature is a social construct. if society was diffrent we would not necessarily look, act, or think according to "human nature." for instance, the fact that we grow up to stand vertically is just a product of our vertically-directed society.
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what do?
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>>2015984
UTE!
*fires Matchlock musket*
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>>2015991
*misses by roughly the longer side of a football pitch*
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>>2016558
>missing
>at that range
Tanegashimas weren't that innacurate you know
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>muh divine purpose
Why is everything meaningless without god/aliens confirming it? In order to say that objective purpose cannot be confirmed, you have to admit that centering the entire nigilistic argument on it is just as spooky, and there is no way to tie nihilists bullshit "epiphanys" to actions or ideas in an objective manner.
Anywho, if there is an objective will of the universe, humans are favored by it because they exist in it, and will eventually have dominion over it.
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>Anywho
Literally stopped reading there
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>>2015850
Go back to crying in a corner fuckboy.
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>>2015837
u wot m9?
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Who should own Alsace Lorraine? 2016-11-29 02:30:56 Post No.2015640
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Who should own Alsace Lorraine?
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I found out via ancestry sites that my family came from Alsace Lorraine. I know the ownership of it has flipflopped, but who has held it for longer, and who made up more of the population Germans or French?
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Right of conquest
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>>2015640
held for more time: Germans
if you look at last 200 years: the French
population till 1700 was mostly german speaking since then french is on the rise bcause of french conquests of parts of it.
Today it's almost entirely french just a small minority see themself as alsacian and even fewer as german.
So today for population reasons it's better of in France + we renounced all claims outside of todays germanys borders in 1990
Also ownership doesn't really matter because of the Eu, as long Fessenheim doesn't become Tschernobyl 3.0.
t. not butthurt german
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>>2015640
You mean Elsaß-Lothringen?
ITT: recent philosophical discussions
So I was walking in the park with a fellow NEET. We had an utmost interesting discussion (if you were NEET you would understand, us NEETs like to read a lot because we have time for it).
He said: "We NEETs are truly the Nietzschean overman, oui?"
I nodded in agreement: "Of course! We strive for excellence and create our own morals."
He continued: "So what is a wagecuck then? A wagecuck is but a mere drone. Its purpose is simply to sustain us NEETs. We shouldn't feel sorry for them. Imagine our body it contains millions of cells, which are to be replaced time and time again. The wagecuck is but a cell to serve the higher body that is the NEET."
Really makes you think huh?
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are NEETs contemporary monks?
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>>2015360
No, contemporary monks are contemporary monks.
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>>2015360
in a sense, yes.
we are the philosophical and spiritual leaders of our society.
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What do you thin the ME would look like if it had not been drawn up by a Frenchman and a Brit? 2016-11-28 22:54:43 Post No.2014696
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What do you thin the ME would look like if it had not been drawn up by a Frenchman and a Brit?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sykes%E2%80%93Picot_Agreement
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I think it would look something like the HRE at first, and then with wars and diplomacy, nations would be formed.
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>>2014696
Like This. Plus Israel doesn't exist
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This assumes the central powers win ww1
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>The population of Germany, excluding conquered and annexed territories, is about 70,000,000, about equally divided between male and female. To achieve the purpose of German extinction it would be necessary to only sterilize some 48,000,000. [...]
>Concerning the males subject to sterilization the army groups, as organized units, would be the easiest and quickest to deal with. Taking 20,000 surgeons as an arbitrary number and on the assumption that each will perform a minimum of 25 operations daily, it would take no more than one month, at the maximum, to complete their sterilization. Naturally the more doctors available, and many more than the 20,000 we mention would be available considering all the nations to be drawn upon, the less time would be required. The balance of the male civilian population of Germany could be treated within three months. Inasmuch as the sterilization of women needs somewhat more time, it may be computed that the entire female population of Germany could be sterilized within a period of three years or less. Complete sterilization of both sexes, and not only one, is to be considered necessary in view of the present German doctrine that so much as one drop of true German blood constitutes a German.
>Of course, after complete sterilization, there will cease to be a birth rate in Germany. At the normal death rate of 2% per annum, German life will diminish at the rate of 1,500,000 yearly. Accordingly in the span of two generations that which cost millions of lives and centuries of useless effort, namely, the elimination of Germanism and its carriers, will have been an accomplished fact."
Would this work and Europe could be free?
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If I was going to go to all that effort, I'd hit the Musselmen first.
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I will never understand /his/ and their autsitic obsession with germans.
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>>2014680
mostly american edge lords. If you actually speak german and can talk to people you get quite a different point of view.
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Favorite person in history 2016-11-28 19:21:08 Post No.2013783
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Favorite person in history
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What is your personal hero among all historical figures?
>Mine is Shakespeare.
Other ones that I really love are Beethoven, Tolstoy and Michelangelo.
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Enrico Dandolo is my hero
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Epicurus.
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>>2013894
Eat shit you fucking blind Italian Jew fuck I fucking hate you
Im looking for more French war heroes from World War One and Two. Preferably officers but anything goes.
>pic related: it's Louis Barthas
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>>2013268
>French
>War Heroes
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>>2013268
Wouldnt say Barthas to be a war hero
He Survived the whole time and his memoirs are really remarkable but thats it
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>>2013268
Fear Written by Gabrielle Chevallier
He won the Croix de Guerre
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Give me 1 (one) good reason why Kissinger hasn't been tried for war crimes?
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>>2013208
Because he is well connected and protected?
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he did not commit any war crimes
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Corruption of the governing body.
Political connections.
Money.