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>>1587385
>Is there any plausible scenario in which Operation Unthinkable could happen?


A different calculation as to the extent of war weariness in the western world, the value of attacking the USSR, and how well that first summer will hold up. I suppose in a world where the Allies tried Roundup and it worked you might have enough people in Northern Europe to make a go at it.

> How close would it be?

Assuming the West maintains unlimited will to fight, not close. Bloody and protracted, but ultimately, the West can strike at the heartland of the USSR, but no conceivable amount of Soviet success will get them across the Channel, let alone to America.

It all hinges upon how committed the West stays, and that's a hard variable to measure, whether the will to fight gives out before the Soviet material does, and that in turn depends on how much the Soviets advance in 1945. (And they WILL advance. They're still a lot stronger on the ground then than the Western Allies are. It'll take time for the air and production advantages to make themselves felt.)

>Would there be much public outcry over it?

A lot. Especially in places in Continental Europe like France, Belgium, Denmark, etc; who have been directly thrust into the line of fire.

>How much would the people of the now Soviet Eastern Europe support the allies?

Not much. Not that there was a huge wellspring of support for the Soviets either, but they had been crushed twice by rampaging armies, and there just wasn't much water in those wells.

There's not really a plausible scenario where it could happen. After 65+ million deaths in WWII and the entire continent's infrastructure wiped out, almost no one outside of Churchill was willing to throw potentially 20 million or more people to their deaths.

it should be remembered that after WWII, every participant was completely broken except for the US and USSR, Britain was slipping at the brink of financial collapse trying to keep the empire together and fighting, and every other nation was either conquered or lost so much that they no longer had the ability to keep up the fight.

no matter how you cut it, it just wasn't worth the effort to take back land that is by all means useless at that point, with destroyed rail/road lines and the largest cities reduced to rubble.

It would have been funny to see the USSR try to fight the allies once they took away all the free jeeps, trucks and trains from Lend Lease.

>OH SHIT WE HAVE NO TRAINS

What is 'total logistical clusterfuck'?

Every passing second on /pol/

>>1588973
Gamergate not history, it's current events
Wikipedia is not same as history rewritten.
Here's your (you)

>>1588973
>implying anyone gives a shit about what shitstorm vidya "enthusiasts" brew up
>implying this is relevant outside of the internet

>>1588538
>contradictions

>>1588538
Been looking for something like this, will check it out.

>>1588551
1st Chronicles 20-29
Ephraim and his sons never went to Egypt but stayed in Canaan

>>1588381


Yeah, this is the right board. We have semi-regular Jack the Ripper threads. Might not get too much interest, but it's definitely on topic.

>>1588381

Bumping, but I know nothing beyond the wiki page I'm afraid. I apologise in advance for the exceedingly low quality of the vast majority of posts on this board.

I remember this case from /x/ threads back when /x/ wasn't a shithole.

I didn't know about

>Investigation had shown that the Somerton Man's autopsy reports of 1948 and 1949 are now missing and the Barr Smith Library's collection of Cleland's notes do not contain anything on the case. Maciej Henneberg, Professor of Anatomy at the University of Adelaide, examined images of the Somerton man's ears and found that the cymba (upper ear hollow) is larger than his cavum (lower ear hollow), a feature possessed by only 1–2% of the Caucasian population.[77] In May 2009, Derek Abbott consulted with dental experts who concluded that the Somerton Man had hypodontia (a rare genetic disorder) of both lateral incisors, a feature present in only 2% of the general population. In June 2010, Abbott obtained a photograph of Jessica Thomson's son Robin, which clearly showed that he – like the unknown man – had not only a larger cymba than cavum, but also hypodontia. The chance that this was a coincidence has been estimated as between one in 10,000,000 and one in 20,000,000.[78]

>The media has suggested that Robin Thomson, who was 16 months old in 1948 and died in 2009, may have been a child of either Alf Boxall or the Somerton Man and passed off as her husband's. DNA testing would confirm or eliminate this speculation.[76] Abbott believes an exhumation and an autosomal DNA test could link the Somerton man to a shortlist of surnames which, along with existing clues to the man's identity, would be the "final piece of the puzzle". However, in October 2011, Attorney General John Rau refused permission to exhume the body, stating: "There needs to be public interest reasons that go well beyond public curiosity or broad scientific interest."

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Order the men to attack the nearest body of water

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lure them into the jungle

Burn the village down to prevent resupply. Drag them out beyond their logistical supply. Prepare fortifications and defensive positions at an ambush friendly chokepoint. Bait legions into trap via double agent espionage with their native scouts. Take the eagles.

N. Germanicus

Alot
Yes

Next question.

>>1587841
Is this another comieboo historical revisionism thread?

People here constantly complain about /pol/ but to be honest /pol/ has ceased to be a problem on this board long time ago.

Why arent the mods doing anything to stop the /leftypol/ infusion?

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Doubtful he killed as many as people claim. But he certainly did kill a lot

Can Roki be a /his/ meme too plz

>>1587716
>these fucking Balkan videos
Pls tell me they're just memes

>>1587733

memes kill people sometimes

iirc the attested area of his resting place within mongolia is restricted, no one knows for sure where he is buried.

The estimation comes from a quote of him when he was chilling on some hill in Mongolia and was struck by the beauty, saying when he dies he wants to be buried there.

>>1587533
Might have already happened, bro.
http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/mongolia-archaeologists-unearth-tomb-of-genghis-khan/

>>1587533
xian

or under his statue but thats monolithic bait

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>>1587525

>>1587523
>that painting though
Wasn't the traditional hunting method to drive the entire herd off a cliff and kill way more than they could even eat cuz no horses lmao

>>1587460
>>1587462
>>1587464
You're not the Malcom X now

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This one.

The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt is a good start

>>1587415
Verdun, Somme, Stalingrad, Chinese Civil War number n.

You should know by now.

The Monghol conquest?
I thought it was around the 30 million casualties.

>>1587415
Cannae

Most countries at least disguise their brainwashing by saying
>muh gods

But the Japanese literally would follow a guy who said
>You're not allowed to listen toy anyone and you are only going to listen to me because I am going to literally reformat your brain's hard drive with this electroacoustic helmet that you will wear day and night because it will literally replace parts of your thinking consciousness with copies of my thought patterns.

Son of a trisquit. Recruitment probably went like this:
>Hey Shinkawa, put this helmet on.
>... What's it got wires for?
>It's gonna delete your mind and replace it with some fatass's thoughts.
>... Kay I'll wear it. What if I want to take it off?
>You don't, I take it off, I already went through the procedure, so I'm not even your friend anymore, I died and now I'm just the fatass's thought-clone.
>... Kay. I'll wear it.

>>1587184
>killed japs
>villains

???

>>1587241
>we wuz englishmen & shit

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Yes, it's based on a true story

>>1587087

The magic potion and the Gallic names are accurate, the rest is mostly fictional.

>>1587116
bet a million bucks that pot was full of pot

>>1587023

Because the Soviets were our heroic allies and most of it was covered up until longbafter anyone have a shit.

>>1587031

*tips*

>>1587023
get what you pay for

>it's demons trying to convince me this isn't my reality thread
Good effort

I shitpost therefore I am

Cogito Ergo Sum is more accurate