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>>1356415
when your mother found out she was pregnant

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>>1356415
When the abbisad caliph realive no one cared about him

>>1356415
When the defenders at Masada saw the Romans building an earthen ramp to get up at them.

>>1356331
Depends.

>>1356336
I know I was hoping for a discussion honestly. I guess the heart of my question is can there be too much soft power.

>>1356331

Neither of those is a thing, they're just approaches. Obviously the idea govt would use only soft power, but at least 2% of humans are psychopathic so some hard power will always be needed.

>>1356223
They're where good thing.

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>>1356223

>They're where good thing

>>1356223
We live like kings Fuck yea it was a good thing

greatest admiral too :)

>Philip II was Macedonian
>Alexander III was Macedonian
>Pyrrhus was Epirote
>Mithridates VI was Pontic
>All the Diadochi were Macedonian

So we're left with shit like Epaminondas, Iphicrates and others?

>>1356220
I see your Pyrrhus and raise you Alexander.
Your move OP.

Atleast they weren't boneheads

>>1356181
The SA was a force of change though.

NeoNazis are just edgelord echo-chambers.

>>1356181
>Many of them were closeted homosexuals.

Yep, sounds like modern nazis.

>>1356155
Who cares?

>>1356155
To be a slave.

>>1356156
I feel like it might be an important question.

He was young and bold and successful in war, and died dramatically before he got old enough to ruin his reputation.

he's a meme op

>alexander the """Great"""

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Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina, Italy

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Mausoleum of Halikarnassos

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Mustafa Pasha Roman tombs, Alexandria, Egypt

>>1355729
I know but you can find all the same in Europe and anywhere at various points in history.

Take the Romans, they have a good reputation, but they weren't above entering a town, murdering all the men, raping all the women, and selling them and the children into slavery. Or just killing them sometimes.

The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner. Life is plentiful and abundant over there. Thus, life is cheap in the Orient.

>>1355741
Plenty of asians still dont value life very much today
I've seen videos of kids being run over in the road, no one stops, no one helps, and the vehicles just carry on

>>1355667
What the fuck?

Nah, but those hips are tempting me very much towards sin.

>>1355681
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>>1355688
>nah
Why not?

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>>1355571
Producing large plates to make armor from is hard af.

Mail is actually pretty good when used with padding and in low labor cost societies it can be significantly cheaper.

vid related requires quite a big investment. Having to do that by hand doesn't sound like fun, i'd imagine they would rather draw wire and make mail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAv3hkOQZjg

Because by the time plate came around, rifles were already starting to become a thing, completely invalidating the need for armor.

>>1355517
Blame it on the Saudis and America. Is it any surprise that a radical ideology is birthed in an area and time of war, strife and great change?

>>1355517
>Can radical violent islam be blamed on the age of the religion?

It has far more to do with the geopolitics of the areas and the events from post-WWII, through the cold war, and into the present day.

>>1355548
>>1355556
Though radical islam goes all the way back to the caliphates, with the Rashidun Caliphate acting similarly to ISIL by destroying the library of alexandria, and in general sacking historical sites deemed to be heretical

When life gets worse and harder.

Radical feminism, as in complaining about problems that don't exist, is a by product of a good safe life with nothing to bitch about. Humans strive to constantly complain in order to improve their surroundings so when their surroundings are good they will find problems where there are none.

Consider how much everyone complains about everything in general despite even the poorest westerners having a warm house, regular high calorie food, and high tech entertainment with at least some disposable income.

no. it will go on and on until there is no more privileged white heterosexual men oppressing them.

>>1355439
fuckin this
we need a good world war to set things straight again

>>1355383
yuropeen onion huehuehue

>>1355383
Lack of planning and overconfidence on the pet of the British. They lost the element of surprise by launching a massive week long bombardment, so the Germans knew something big was coming in that sector. The British artillery used mostly shrapnel shells, which are useless against fortifications and barbed wire, but somehow they failed to realize that. As such they didn't bother giving out any wire cutters iirc, and the Tommies went out into no mans land with all their gear they would usually leave behind because they assumed that no German could have survived their massive fusillade and they would be able to just occupy the enemy positions with little to no fighting. Obviously it didn't play out that way. When the artillery stopped and the British infantry charged, the Germans scrambled from their bunkers and manned their MG's. A few hours later 20K British had been killed with another 40K wounded. Hard to find a better example of the futility of war.

>>1355383
>What went wrong?

Generals not realizing the days of honorable royal battles and wars being played like an aristocratic chess game are gone, and we are now in an age of total war, grinding two nations until one bleeds to death, and in the end everyone involved loses.

All the British had to do was sit in one place for another couple of years, there were already riots in Germany before the Somme, the Russians were beating the Austrians raw, the attack on Verdun was easing up, the Ottomans were losing in Arabia and Mesopotamia, the Bulgarians were looking to make a separate peace deal so they don't have to fight their slavic Russian brothers, more and more colonial troops were being recruited and freed up from Africa to join the conflict in Europe, and so on, and so on.

The situation allowed to sit and wait out a victory, but nope, us military elite gotta get our honor, chargeeeeee!!!!!!
It was a similar flaw in command and outdated views mixed with machismo and hubris that caused the disaster at Gallipoli. I find these two british projects very similar.

Rifles were slow to load and difficult to produce. No army equipped all troops with rifles in that age.
But some units used them, like voltigeurs and chausseurs.

>>1355361
Because they were shit
An irrelevant unit from an irrelevant country played soldiers with them on an irrelevant theater, and that's about it

40 shillins...