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>be German
>get melted

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"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."

What did he mean by this

>>1523088

Primarily ineffective. I'm going to skip over the morality of the Strategic Bombing campaign, in large part because I don't have a coherent enough moral framework to pass that kind of judgment, and stick to pure military efficacy, which I at least think I have a better handle on.

Offensive air war has something that's traditionally been much harder to use strategically than it ought to be, at least during the interwar period and even during the early part of WW2. Sure, everyone agrees that it's good to have airplanes, and ideally more and better than your enemy, but what is the best way to use this air power to crush your foes? Do you want to support your ground and naval forces directly by bombing their men, guns, tanks, and boats? Do you want to be trying to disrupt lines of communications? Do you want to destroy their people and their morale? Do you want to try to knock out their industry before it can turn out weapons to use against you? Is this an arm that supports other branches of the military, or should it be the primary striking force? Nobody really had a definitive answer, and you had an enormous number of proponents saying this, that, or the other thing was the best way to use a polity's limited air resources.

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>>1522960
venice approves

>>1522960
The Eternal Latin.

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>>1522960
>what went right
>the armanians
>(literally)

>>1522876
>What are the most important things to know about them ?
Only about 2,000 people in total were killed [Spanish Inquisition, Henry Kamen]
This kills the anti-Spaniard.

Holy Inquisition was made to root out crypto-muslims and crypto-jews that were commiting terrorism in Spain and less extent Portugal
the Inquisition had preseumption of innocence and a structure of courts
Protestant countries killed more people on religious grounds than the Inquisition because each parish could acuse people and condemn them to death, thousands of gingers were killed in protestant countries
fucking heretics

read Kamen

>>1522755
How come Shakespeare wrote so many comedies, then?

Maybe in England. English elites were incredibly stuck up no fun allowed puritans while French writers were perfecting the art of irony.

Maybe at one point among the English aristocracy but I'm not an expert on that.

I do know a bit more than the average person about Scottish nobility and royals and since the early 15th century Scottish kings would pal around with common people and booze up and tell jokes and stuff. James V even owned a joke book. So his use of "British" is probably mistaken.

>>1522693

first things

you using parajews flag

>>1522693
Too much.

The wealth of Rome became increasingly concentrated into the hands of wealthy patricians until plebeians were so poor that they didn't give a damn whether Rome rose or fell.

The rich gradually acquired all the land, like by simply taking it while the poor land owners were away fighting for Rome, and then working the land with the relatively constant flow of slaves from conquests. Eventually most of the population were just poor sweatshop workers in the heart of Rome subsisting off of porridge made from grain government handouts from Egypt.

Caesar is more famous than Augustus you sperg.

>>1522567
There was no empire, you double nigger. Augustus is remembered because he founded the empire. Caesar did not save the Republic but end it with his dictator for life schtick.

Literally everyone knows Caesar

What if the reason for god knowing is different grasp of time? Your future, your past, your present might all be his now.


Either way, not seeking to debate this. I don't know much. And I don't think anyone truly understands freedom of will.

There's lots of good arguments against god. This isn't one of them. Because, much like C. S. Lewis wrote, god could simply see time differently than we do. Him knowing what you'll pick doesn't mean you're not free to act otherwise.

Because to us we see A, B, and then C. It's linear. God would see A, AA, AAA, AB, ABB, ABBB, and every single variation possible that you could pick or think of. It's all "now" to him. Because god is claimed to be beyond time.

As for freedom of will. It's like saying if I could understand ants and an ant says "god damn I wish I had some water" and I gave him water. It's not taking away free will. Now you could potentially argue that if you pray for a job and god makes it so you get it over someone else, then the other person got dicked over hard, and then it'd kinda prove your argument. But then it's only a temporary loss of freedom or it's just what god happened to will.

There it gets kinda fuzzy, but it's not exactly an argument against god. This is kindergarten theology.

>muh nad

I don't think charlie's all that bothered tbqh

How old is she now? 100?
Fuck man, medicine has advanced a lot

I think she's a vampire, actually

>>1522475
all of africa would probably be muslim right now and it would be one synthe'd unified strain.

siberia would be speaking english.

>>1522478
Well, all of Africa is muslim, or at least the most of it.

Maybe the country that retook iberia would not have stopped there and tried to expand their influence to north africa to take full control of the mediterranean sea.

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>>1522475

>>1522469
Become an Anglo-Catholic. None of it is true so just do what feels right.

>tfw think the concept of a god existing is foolish but want the moral stability and experience of being religious
>considering becoming Catholic

What do

>>1522499

Kind of the modern dilemma isn't it?

>>1522222
Great digits, great question.
All in all, great post

>>1522222
11 is too little and 13 is too many.
12 is just right.

>>1522222
i dunno lol

>>1522202
Both of course

>>1522202
Entente were also suffering attrition and manpower shortages.

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>>1522211
The US army wasnt

>>1522005
part of the big 4 naval supremacies
portugal, spain, england, netherlands.

why did they all fail? overextension, couldn't hold/consolidate gains. and if ur ever not sure, make ur bridges wood so u can burn them/scorched earth as you retreat else the vermin will follow you back like a vacuum in a black hole.

rome, america etc, foriegn imperialism

>>1522005
>mine all the gold you can out of Central and South America
>declare banking usury and outlaw it

Spanish Economy Status: JUST

>>1522024

lol idiot
even in it's peak the silver from the Americas was only 20% of the economy
the majority of the Empire's expenses was paid by the Crown of Castille alone

>>1521863
Two Olympics thank you very much.

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>>1521863
They're the international shitpost champs of the world.

Don't forget losing a war against a few birds.

When the people are starving, anything can happen.

Asymmetrical warfare has proven highly effective, also.

We have the Rojova revolution going on right now. Various people are coming up with ideas to overthrow governments. Enough people, enough anger and it'll happen.

Governments should be scared of their people. They fucking are.

>>1521835
once you get a few generations deep of serving military personal relativistically more greatly benefiting from the scarcity surplus of their group collective activities they will eventually naturally as human nature do turn to enlightenment of their actions, leading to collectivist militeristic revolts from the top. military men wont shoot their own civilians. thats what criminals do. look at turkey for example. that is the seed of the next epoch of coupdetats