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>>1670368

The US obviously.

>>1670368
America. They raised the bar higher than the USSR could match, so they won. Its like high jump at the olympics, you dont win by being the first to jump each of the lower heights, you win by jumping higher than the other contestants can match

>>1670368
I would say USA. They're the only ones who planted a flag in space.

>>1668240

No. But on the other hand, I don't believe in a duty to retreat either, and I tend to view defense of self or others in a pretty wide way.

So while I wouldn't object to you shooting an intruder in your home, I would do so to you leaving some sort of deathtrap behind while you and your family go on vacation.

Probably under some circumstances. But I don't like how libertarians pretend how it is somehow obviously encompassed under "self-defense".

>>1668240
Mostly yes, but it depends on the amount of resistance and value of what is being stolen though.

>>1669179
>or were they just too heavily outgunned/outflanked?

They were outsmarted more than anything
The German army was only a little more numerous than France and the BEF combined, it was nothing decisive.
As for the equipment, France had better tanks than Germany

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>>1669215
How did their air forces compare?

>>1669179

Blocking/protecting roads.
Act quick in Belgium.
Better relations with Brits

T. Marc Bloch.

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>>1665863

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like this

>>1665863
depend how much estrogen you could stuff into a sassyboipuc u acquire as qtpi slave from birth and raise to be ur cumdumpster

You can also use this list as a way to avoid foods high in estrogen if you have too much estrogen in your body.
Dried Fruits. Dried fruit, especially dried apricots, dates, and prunes, can help balance your estrogen levels in a big way. ...
Flaxseed. ...
Sesame Seeds. ...
Chickpeas. ...
Beans. ...
Peas. ...
Tempeh. ...
Alfalfa Sprouts.

Crashing this plane

Probably stone tools.

It's the first achievement that can be attributed to "humanity" and it's a little hard to do the other ones if you physically don't have enough protein in your diet to develop a large brain.

Fire and clothing also fall into this category.

>>1665025
Shrek 2

Zoroastrians faced heavy persecutions when Umar conquered Persia.
Also, remember Jizya, which in early Islamic history was a very large source of income.

>>1662939

Christians were mostly converting Pagans and Pagan religions generally don't fare well when confronted with organized religion. Besides, converting to Christianity gave lots of practical advantage to Pagan kings. Namely gave them access to far more civilized and stable government forms.

When Christians conquered some land already inhabited by adherents of organized religions, they more often than not failed to convert them. And mostly they didn't even try too hard. Look at Southern Philippines, India, all those Muslim states in Asia and Africa etc. There was never an organized state effort to convert those areas and numbers of Christians there are minimal.

Islam on the other hand, occupied huge areas already inhabited by adherents of organized religions, then slowly annihilated them.

>>1662939
>Zoroastrians, Coptic Christians, Yazidis, Kalash and Druze, traditional African beliefs as well as Jews

Look at demographics. Those religions are moribound in Muslim countries, save maybe for Copts in Egypt and Meronites in Lebanon. Some, like Kalasha, number just hundreds. We are simply witnessing the final phase of their existence.

>>1663012
Jizyah is similar to Zakaat, in the sense everyone pays a portion of their income. Jizyah was zakaat for non-Muslims.

And clearly persecution wasn't incredibly prevalent considering it took centuries for Iran to become majority Muslim. Often, we find Shi'a clergy exaggerating the violence of Umar et al against our forefathers (as Iranians) to create hatred for the opposition. And often, we find it mistaken for events during the Mongol invasions. People in my own family still believe the river running black with ink is was Umar and not Subutai Khan or whoever it was during Baghdad.

And I don't like Umar and pals either.

>>1668935
Because in WWII everything that the british used looked fucking ugly

>>1668935
>Seriously what is it with people thinking German tanks were any good in WWII?

Don't know, but the counter meme that they were totally useless isn't much better. I suppose your parodizing that sentiment, right?

Because the Germans achieved the most impressive strategic results with their tanks.

Up until 1942, of course.

>>1668734
Julius Caesar

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MOMMY

>>1668760
Also this

>>1667794
>>>/k/

>>1667794
It's greatest strengths were that it was cheap to make, and the biggest selling point, it was very light. Meaning squads didn't have to haul a machine gun that dedicates a member of the squad to just carrying it around.

having that much firepower in a gun that's only 15 pounds, where your standard machine gun can clock in at 35-50 pounds was a huge selling point for infantry mobility.

It's not as good as a light machine gun, but as a highly mobile squad support weapon, it did its job.

>>1667794
1) The USA operated on the belief that "soldiers will waste ammo if you give them a lot of bullets." So better what essentially is a 20 round rifle than Automatics for errybody,
2) Only Germany had an LMG. Shit like the Bren Gun could also be considered a fucking Automatic Rifle for all the ammo those things carried.

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>>1667337

Civilizations collapse because they cannot afford their military or can not afford enough to defeat outside forces.

Most of the time this has nothing to do with degeneracy, but rather over extension of the forces.

Really, the Romans fell but the Byzantines did fine until 1453.

It was because the west failed militarily while the East kept up their might.

They're all trash

but Teddy

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pic
muh national parks
panama canal is ok too ig

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>>1665101
>>1665836

>>1663076
Invariably.

>>1663076
Of course not. Why would you think that a man who found golden tablets that no one but he was allowed to see that told him he is a new prophet and can fuck little girls might be a scam artist?

he looks like a greek boy if you know what I mean

>>1659015
This thread again?

Fuck off with your biased poll, poopbrain.

>>1659041
t. New Age

>>1659049
Your reply doesn't even make sense.

>b8 thread

>>1664627
why are all Brits so butthurt, is it because they used to own the world, and now they only have one shitty island?

>>1664627
Yeah I remember reading about that incredible British victory at Dunkirk.

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>>1660166
I'll post a few.

Pic is an Iron Age bog trackway in Ireland dating to 148 BC. These kind of tracks are found across Europe in the Bronze and Iron Ages.

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>>1661513
Gobekli Tepe under excavation. It was probably built around 9000 BC by hunter-gatherers who had begun to form complex societies in the Middle East due to the abundance of natural resources, but had yet to adopt agriculture.

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>>1661527
The Oseberg viking ship under excavation, dating to before 834 AD when the ship was buried.