Is war counteractive to evolution via natural selection or is the process simply post poned in peace time, and then taken to the extreme in times of war?
Does it really kill off the bravest and strongest or does it take those that are lazy, unfit and unaware (or even just kill at random)?
Im talking about modern warfare btw
>don't know if this is the right board but since /sci/ never discusses war i figured /his/ would be better suited to providing some insight
>>1596053
Didn't notice the file name, sorry ameribros
It doesn't really matter considering most periods of high-casualty conflict don't last more than 10 years tops and that's literally nothing on an evolutionary timescale
>>1596069
What about the World Wars, would they have had a significant impact on the genetic stock of Europe?
>Italy
>civilized nation
>Mussolini
>civilized
>>1581300
Oh boy a dictator rules at his whim for 20 years, executing dissenters, starting unnwanted wars that kill off millions of italians and literally split the country in two, also starting a civil war in the process; and then tries to flee like the coward he's always been instead of staying and facing the consequences of his actions.
Gee anon I dont know, let's give him a """fair""" trial like at Nuremberg, perhaps he wont end up hung.
Get the fuck off your "muh right to a fair trial" high horse amerishit, we italians revel in delight still today when we mention what end we brought to that fascist shithead.
>>1581300
>fascism
>totally works
How did you choose your denomination, /his/?
>>1591042
Born shia. But i dont care anyway
>>1591042
Parents desu
>>1591042
God's Holy Spirit guided me to the true Reformed faith.
Is there a philosophical reason for why Asian cultures don't privilege authenticity and originality as much as Western culture?
> billions gazzilions of people
There could be only like 500 000 original people at best, all other would be cheap knock offs.
harmony
>>1585742
This.
Collectivists do not value the individual.
It's worth pointing out that Europe was pretty collectivist in a lot of places until the plague hit.
>tfw no secular Iran
Feels bad man
Also is Esfahan as pretty as the pictures make it seem?
>>1600571
I wonder, would Iran remain secular is Anglos and Burgers didn't depose Mossaddegh?
>>1600580
Definitely yes. The religion might have stayed a strong political component but they wouldn't be a theocracy.
>>1600580
It most definitely would have. Actually Iran throughout its history was never really orthodox. Alcohol, dance, and music was always a big part of thier culture.
And now Persian dance and music is being slowly eroded since the Islamic republic made it illegal
REEEEEEEEEEEEEE
What's the biggest blunder of the 20th century?
WW2
The 20th Century itself
>>1599548
Balfour declaration
The world wars were ultimately an inevitable consequence of the power settling in the wake of industrialization.
Creating Israel by force created a fucking mess and we should 've known better. It was a genuine goof.
itt post your favorite empires
>empire
>>1597650
My favorite empire killed yours
Hi I came here for the memes
Historically speaking, who was the strongest recorded man? Was it Hercules?
>>1590510
It was probably an Italian guy.
>Nation full of manlets
>Manlets have to make gains to compensate
>Ancient Italy/Rome were extra short manlets
>Had to make extra gains to compensate
It's amazing that they conquered half the known world. Especially lanklet country like Gaul and parts of Germania.
Louis Cyr
>>1590510
>Ancient Italy/Rome were extra short manlets
Where does this meme come from? Northern barbs tended to be taller than romans (on account of their hyperproteic diet more than anything), but everyone else in the time period didn't.
Why didn't Poles and Germans reprimand for their old territories?
In addition to the return of the stolen territory and the compensation for the crimes committed nor costs for loss of use will be added to the expelling countries after the signing of the formal peace treaty concluding WW2. Since the German people has been withdrawn from him cultivated area over decades of own use, losses have now arisen in serious height. This concerns, for. Example, environment, agriculture, housing and in the meantime plundered natural resources.
For such payments, there are examples: To compensate Indian tribes in North and South Dakota and Montana and Oklahoma for lost revenues from natural resources in stolen Indian territories had agreed to a 13-year dispute, the VS-American government in 2009 with the Indians, to pay 3.4 billion US dollars. [4]
Besides the financial cost, there is a possibility that the expelling countries are donating over a period of several years the German people workers available to build East Germany and the Sudetenland again. The value of this land is immeasurable. If, per square meter to 5 €, the value of East Germany in the borders of 1937 about 594 billion €, the Sudetenland was € 112.5 billion, of all closed until 1945 German populated area in the east 75.000.000.000 €, ie about 500 billion 250 million €.
>>1599629
The Poles probably want their old stuff back, but can only take it at the point of a gun and that's not happening to Russia.
The Germans got all the shit they lost codified in treaty. They're never getting it back, especially not when all of Eastern Europe expelled all of their German population at gunpoint to make sure they could never claim "i-it's our ethnic homeland" again.
The term "Germany as a whole", the victorious powers of World War II gave the state territory of the German Reich and the Greater German Reich within the borders of 1937. The still valid term appeared in several resolutions and treaties of the Allies and the SHAEF laws of the main victorious power USA.
Even after the Second World War against Germany the Pole stretched out his greedy hand even after this German area.
"The German eastern territories were at the outbreak of war on 1.9.1939 under German sovereignty. Even at the time of the cessation of hostilities on 8.5.1945 had not changed. Although the Allies have taken the supreme power in Germany to complete, but expressly stated on 05.06.1945 in Berlin, to refrain from any annexation German territory. The Allies have therefore set not the limits of the prior from 31.12.1937. For this they were not authorized. They have also not intended, but determined that the borders of Germany are to be set out in the treaty. Only it came to them, divide for the purpose of filling the areas within the borders of 1937 into four zones. Moreover, they realized that there are also outside the borders of 1937 German territories over which, as stated in a Supplement "rightful position" would be to decide in the peace treaty. These include the Memel circles, Danzig and the Sudetenland. These have not been released for annexation. Most of the Soviet occupation zone was the Poles transferred for purposes of administration, so that the Soviets except central Germany between the Elbe and Oder only remained the Northeast. The annexation of northern East Prussia by the Soviet Union and the rest of the territories beyond the Oder-Neisse line of demarcation by the Poles is illegal under international law and therefore void. "[5]
Who was the most competent general of WW2 ?
Hitler. He dragged Germany out of the gutter singlehandedly and saved them from an economic depression, took over Poland in less then a week because Poles are subhuman savages, and then almost won a war against the whole world. Fuck Patton and fuck Churchill, they are race traitors who denied the white man a true aryan homeland in Germany
>>1591482
Joukov destroyed him though
>>1591482
>almost won a war against the whole world.
>almost
Aha yeah, was so close man!
Holy viking fuck! Vikings sucked!
Vikings wernt a nation though
its like pinning the California national guard against some LA street gang
>>1597820
yes, we know that
>>1597820
Yes, they were uneffective on sieges.
Was it communism?
Not real communism
>>1597141
It was state capitalism.
It was some kind of something or other.
Can /his/ give me history on pic related? I'm of Croatian decent but haven't looked into its history.
we wuz kingz n shiet
hrvati su genocidan narod
t. diaspora
Why do some atheist have a knee jerk reaction whenever you tell them you're agnostic?
What's bad in admitting you just don't know?
>>1597059
because they're as full of shit as theists. they're so smart that everyone else is stupid to them
Because if you're not with us you're against us, infidel. Non-non-believers will face Science's eternal wrath.
A lot of atheists don't seem to know what being a atheist means. They'll cal themselves an atheist but then take the position of an agnostic.
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"
what did he mean, what was the actual meaning behind this?
Protip: Biblic Jesus is not the right one.
>>1595066
>what was the actual meaning behind this?
>My God, my God,
He is addressing his god twice to make sure he is heard and being listened to.
It's like knocking a few times and waiting a couple of seconds and then knocking again.
>why have you forsaken me?
He is asking why his god has forsaken him.
Luke 23:44 It was now about the sixth hour, and there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour, 45 while the sun's light failed. And the curtain of the temple was torn in two. 46 Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
Matthew 27:45 Now from the sixth hour[f] there was darkness over all the land[g] until the ninth hour.[h] 46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” that is, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” 47 And some of the bystanders, hearing it, said, “This man is calling Elijah.” 48 And one of them at once ran and took a sponge, filled it with sour wine, and put it on a reed and gave it to him to drink. 49 But the others said, “Wait, let us see whether Elijah will come to save him.” 50 And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice and yielded up his spirit. 51 And behold, the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. And the earth shook, and the rocks were split. 52 The tombs also were opened. And many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, 53 and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many.