>provoke a war
>superior military wins a war
>enforce demands
>repeat
Truly a magnificent diplomatic mind, that kind of prodigy that only appears once every thousand years
>>1898110
Th-there was more to it than that!
>>1898110
>Implying war isn't diplomacy
haha, GERMany?
like EWWWWWW :P
they like destroy europe and stuff :(
Why were the Northern Europeans historically taller than Southern Europeans?
If diet is the answer, what type of diet would contribute to the increased height?
As a Southern European I always thought Northern European food was generally bad for you, since they just eat what they have available while we have a wide variety.
>>1898050
Animal protein consumption explains 95% of cross national variance in height. Tru fact
>>1898050
>If diet is the answer, what type of diet would contribute to the increased height?
Cheese and Milk. Calcium is vital for proper growth.
>>1898050
>since they just eat what they have available while we have a wide variety.
no, that's exactly why northern diet had MORE variety. you had to know lots of things you could eat while southerners could take almost all of their energy consumption from plain wheat.
Hi /his/, I want to make this thread because it is something I have been dealing with for a while now, and it is Sunday again and I don't know if I should go to Church. About 2 years ago I reverted to Catholicism(was an atheist). I loved Church history, loved the traditions, the architecture, essentially I reverted for all the wrong reasons. As time went on, I read the gospels, some of the epistles, and looked back on the Pentateuch a bit(I read the Pentateuch up to Leviticus in Catholic School when I was kiddo as well), and got more into theology. I eventually saw that a lot of Catholicism didn't seem biblical, and I got into reformed theology and biblical Christianity. I still had many doubts about Christianity, and couldn't force myself to believe a lot of it, especially creation. I tried to repent, I tried to give myself to Jesus, but I always fell back into sin, I always fell back into doubt. I started smoking weed and drinking again, I fapped more, I even looked into the occult and /fringe/ stuff for a short week. I didn't get fulfillment from these things either, and after a few months stopped the smoking and drinking(still working on the fapping though). I got into more philosophy, I read more, and tried hard to find solid meaning, but ultimately I went back into nihilism, and apathy. Now I am doing better, and have been trying read more of the greeks, specifically Plato, but yesterday I got into a theological argument with a lukewarm "Christian"(she is essentially a universalist) and found myself getting really into my old ways. I was quoting scripture, explaining why I have faith, talking about CS Lewis, etc. I felt like my faith was reignited last night, albeit for a short while, but I even read the bible once again for the first time in a while(I used to read it every night before bed). Now, I woke up today and was thinking about going to my local baptist Church, and I turned on the TV to watch a sermon on a Christian Channel.
>>1897952
Stop being a baby Christianity is about a personal relationship not rituals.
cont.
I was quickly reminded of the reasons I grew away from Christianity in the first place. The sermon was about why the end times are near, and the pastor kept talking about Israel and why Russia's future is foretold in Ezekiel, shit like that. This reminded me about creationism, and how basically every good protestant denomination, especially Baptists, are creationists. I have looked into creation "science" with a pretty open mind, but it is bullshit, true bullshit. Then I thought about all the virtuous pagans, people like Socrates, Plato, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Aristotle, where do they all fit in? Marcus Aurelius was definitely aware of Christianity and did not accept it, that must mean he is in hell. An extremely good man by most accounts would be in hell. This example works for many other Latin philosophers and writers. So, I guess my question is /his/, Is Christianity true, and if it is how? How can it possibly be true? Which denomination is true? If I pick wrong I could end up in hell, it is like russian fucking roulette. Why can't I just focus on living a moral life here on Earth?
>>1897952
I'm currently on your situation right now, But I was born catholic but Am now a christian, and now a backslider... I'm so deep with my sins and addiction that I don't know what to do now, I left out my church(Baptist) and here I am reading on /b/ and /gif/ fapping forevermore.
and then I remembered the parables that jesus taught to the people of galilea, about the seed that is thrown on the thorn, it grows but it doesn't end well. or maybe that house built upon a sand, and when the waves crashes down, it falls. just like me... and I'm thinking maybe God doesn't wanted me anymore, that's why he can't hear me
Is this correct?
>>1897881
Every country is artificial. You just have to do it right.
>>1897890
this
borders are a nationalistic meme
>>1897881
Borders are social constructs therefore artificial
Should we start writing the Tome of the Grand History of 4chan before it closes shop?
>>1897788
Hiroyuki is lying to you. He just wants more money. Don't believe a word he says
>>1897798
Moot shouldn't have sold 4chan to a greedy jap
>>1897788
No. Let it fade into the abyss
Apologies for the basic question but I need to understand this. Were there ANY redeeming features (victories, notable wins in battles etc) in WW2-era Italy or were they absolutely 100% retards of the highest level? I hear about them being an absolute joke but surely they must have done some things right.
>>1897748
All I know about them is the tried to invade Greece early on and failed fucking hard, dragging it on most of the war
Meanwhile Germany conquered Poland and France in 5 minutes
>>1897748
They held Ethiopia for a while
They took sidi baranni
The advance into italy was slow and grueling for the allies
They never did a french-tier instantly surrender and heavily collaborate thing.
>>1897748
The italian army wasnt motorized, it's generals had learnt nothing from the successes of the germans, it had contracted FIAT to produce tanks and those tanks were awful, it did not have any resources of its own but relied on it's colonies, the british controlled both chokepoints into the mediteranean, the italian artillery and arms were all from the great war, it's ammunition was outdated and weak, it had roughly 150 modern airplanes when it entered the war, it had a highly conservative grand marshall who said of the german reports on mechanized warfare "we'll read it after the war", it had no aircraft carriers, it did not impose a war economy like the other nations, it did not sieze Malta straight away and their only real power was in their surface fleet which the british caught napping at Taranto pretty much straight away.
>The Najibullah government fired over 1,000 SCUD As at Mujahideen forces in the late 80s and early 90s
>Largest employment of ballistic missiles in history
>Afghanistan
>>1897641
Aren't those things cheaper than dirt?
>>1897641
Dam
>>1897641
>Operation Bomb Useless Dirt
When did you realize he was right but it was impractical to now carry out his beliefs?
>>1897450
I like his thing as a critique of industrial society, but as you said, a solution like his isn't viable in the slightest.
We've broken the earth and society irreperably.
>>1897450
Who listens to Poles these days?
>>1897450
Hey OP, I got this message on goodreads if I want the review copy of his newest book "Anti-Tech Revolution: Why and How" in exchange for two reviews. What do ya think?
I actually kek'd out loud since I thought I wasn't even such an extreme environmentalist. I am a big pessimist however.
what was his deal?
to make France great again
lindybeige
hemorrhoids
stomach cancer
and a tooth abscess when he arrived at St Helena
Of the seven members of the first Soviet politburo, five members were Jewish. Only one was Russian.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politburo_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union#Background
Similar ratios were seen in the leadership of Communist organizations in Hungary and Germany, for example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918%E2%80%9319
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Soviet_Republic
Why are Jews so historically prevalent in communist movements? Is there some aspect of their culture or religion that lends to these kinds of sentiments?
does /pol/ organize these "red pill" raids in Irc or what
>>1897285
what aspect of the thread is /pol/?
are you arguing that these movements weren't dominated by Jews or that it isn't important to find out why?
So how big a deal is government debt?
I know very little about how it works i.e. Government Bonds and treasury bills etc but are there any examples throughout history of government debt literally destroying a nation, i suspect there is.
And how much of a big deal is this in an age where we can just print money through quantitative easing?
I suspect quantitative easing would raise inflation and so on, shouldn't this be a bigger factor as inflation can clearly destroy a nation?
Also, can a government just literally refuse to pay back debt? I suspect it is MUCH harder nowadays when we have markets, for example, if the US just denied to pay back the debt China owns, the Chinese could literally just sell them off at a cheap price tanking the US economy, right? Or am I just being stupid?
the notion that the US will never default on its debts is a foundation of the global economy, US treasury bonds are considered to be a risk-free investment.
That's one of the big reasons why so many economists hate Trump, he suggested America should negotiate with its creditors to pay back its debts for pennies on the dollar. This is something that is often done with debts in business when declaring bankruptcy, but doing so on US bonds would mean a default on loans and would absolutely destroy the global economy. It was very worrying to many economists because it showed a lack of understanding beyond his narrow experience in the business world.
>>1897123
I still don't understand why so many Americans believe success in business can be transferred to success in government. But it's pretty clear at this point Trump will just be a puppet for Pence the same way Dubya was for Cheney.
>>1897112
National debt is only bad when other people think you can't pay it back and stop giving you more loans.
Did it work?
are the chinese heads shaped like moons?
>>1896977
Not even a little. The number of ground rule doubles this wall has given up is embarrassing to the sport of baseball.
>china got conquered by northern invaders
>twice
you tell me
Given the state of American TV today, we can all agree that he did LITERALLY nothing wrong, right?
isnt that the national hero of armenia
what did he do again
Deserved to die TeaBeeH
If it's true that he was decapitated, all the better.
Is that someone cosplaying as Super Mario?
Thoughts on Königsberg/Kaliningrad Oblast?
>>1896266
A jewel turnt a shithole thanks to eternal Ivan
>>1896321
Germanboos out
>>1896266
A reminder to Germany of Russia's triumph over them.
Did native Americans ride horses before white people came?
>>1896205
before meeting white traders, maybe. not before europeans reached the americas
>>1896205
>horses
>america
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution_of_the_horse#Return_to_the_Americas
horses were not native. they had very few beasts of burden.