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> Firstly, we defeat United Kingdom.
> Only THEN army invading Soviets.
How can you even fuck up this simple strategy?
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>>1315237
Because the Nazis were autistic.
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They couldn't really touch the UK except for the southern bits
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>>1315241
couldn't touch it at all
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Tell me /his/ why did the Spanish civil war happen?
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>>1314903
Polarisation of society with no meaningful or successful attempts at reconciliation or compromise by a centre-leaning third party.
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>>1314913
So like the USA nowadays?
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What are your favourite historical blunders?
>proclaim we'll leap to heaven in a single bound
>end up with a huge economic disastor and starving peasants
>People exaggerate their grain production to appease glorious leader so half of it gets donated to korea or something
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Italy making the blunder to open a front against Greece.It delayed operation Barbarosa enough so that the crucual months of the war against Russia were in the winter.Overconfidence at its best!
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>>1314873
The invasion of Greece was not the sole reason for the scheduling of Barbarossa. Also the winter of 41 didn't matter as much as you imply.
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>>1314873
Literally didn't matter. Poland was flooded so no offensive was going through there anyways.
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>the honjo masamune
>one of the most famous swords in japanese history
>made by the greatest swordsmith to ever live
>passed down generation by generation for hundreds of years in the tokugawa shogunate's family line
>designated a national treasure of japan in 1939
>in 1945 japan loses the war and the occupation authorities order all swords to be handed over since they are 'weapons'
>many japanese protest against this
>tokugawa iemasa, the then owner of the honjo masamune, decides not to hide the sword but to voluntarily hand it over to the occupation authorities so as to set a good example to other japanese
>puts his whole trust in the inherent goodness of the americans and surrenders it to a police station along with a dozen other priceless swords
>the americans immediately lose the sword and then politely tell tokugawa to fuck off when he enquires about the valuation they were supposed to do on it (but didn't) to determine if it was to be spared
>most likely situation is that it was unceremoniously dumped in a furnace and melted down with hundreds of other swords
>other likely situation is that it was given to a random american serviceman as a trophy and is still sitting on some americans basement
>record actually exists of it being taken away from the police station by a sgt. coldy bimore but the name was written phonetically in japanese katakana script and there is no such person by that name
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fucking piggus
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>>1314794
Unfortunately Japanese swordsmanship was associated with right wing militarism by the US. This is not without some justification as kendo was basically used as a recruiting tool for the military.
the US therefore went out of its way to destroy many blades. Its very unfortunate in many ways
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>ITT: America stories
Kelly Johnson, in search of the proper metals for the airframe of the SR-71, got the CIA to make a shell company to import said material from the Soviet Union.
What the fuck were they thinking?
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Keeping the commies out i imagine.
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>>1314713
>Allowing commies to take over Europe
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>>1314713
>let's unite all the mos powerful countries after us and the Soviet Union onto our side
gee idk
Will she ever die?
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My dad legitimately believes that she will live to be 130
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dont know but i hope so tbqh
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No. She will use Pagan Anglican witch magic to become immortal.
God save the Queen.
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ITT: post your favorite thought experiment.
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What if an morbidly obese woman sat on my face?
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What if Hitler was wrong?
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MK Ultra
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What significant historical events occurred between the Napoleonic wars and world war 1?
The reason I ask is because I have started reading The World Crisis by Winston Churchill and he says the british won 3 substantial victories in 3 different centuries which I'm sure is some revisionist history
But more so he talks about Germany having an unrivalled army and I was wondering what transpired in those 100 years to have this come about
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>>1314615
Franco-Prussian war?
OVB unifying Germany?
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>>1314615
Well let's name off some of the big points
>Opium Wars
>Austro-Prussian War
>Franco-Prussian War
>Scramble for Africa, Treaty of Berlin
>Boer Wars
>France becomes monarchy, republic, empire, republic, Paris Commune forms, and back to republic
>unification of Germany
>Boxer Rebellion
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WWI was a direct continuation of the Franco Prussian war
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Are there any examples of an empire/kingdom/country that was led by an extremely introverted head of state?
I imagine it must be difficult to do diplomatic stuff if you're a massive autist
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>>1314583
Qin Shi Huangdi was one.
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>>1314583
Bashar Assad seems like an introverted autist
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You wake up as Kaiser Wilhelm II on the day of your coronation
How would you prevent Germany's downfall?
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>>1314450
DON'T BUILD THE FUCKING FLEET
Seriously, I cannot overstate how retarded a decision that was. It drives England into the arms of France and Russia, and it wastes billions on a deterrance strategy that doesn't have a hope in hell of working, because you build your boats to be too short ranged even if you can bring the British to battle and defeat them (hint, you can't).
And they're so absurdly expensive and such an investment in national prestige and your budget, that you can't risk losing them, so they'll probably just sit in port looking impressive.
Buy a fucking gold toilet, it would be a better use of the resources. Or better yet, try to make sure that France and Russia don't get along, and play on the cracks in the Balkans. Don't rush into some mega-war, there's literally nothing to be gained that you didn't get in the Franco-Prussian war. If you do need a long term preventive war, make sure to isolate Russia, make it a 1v1, or better yet, you and your friends vs just Russia.
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>>1314450
Don't be autistic.
Like, srsly.
That fucking phrase is thrown around a lot here but holy shiiiiiiit that guy was a colossal autist in exactly the way the word is used as a colloquial insult
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>>1314450
Don't piss literally everyone off.
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Thoughts on this? This guy claims that all of humanity, all over the world, slept in two four-hour increments with a break in between the two up until the industrial revolution, and that everyone forgot it ever existed after that.
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In my own experience this is true. In fact I give myself about 10 hours of sleep these days so that after I wake up for the first time I can grab a snack and read a book before settling back in.
But yeah that's all I got s-sorry
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>>1314397
Results?
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>>1314404
It's a hell of a lot better than when I was in high school. Where I would just lay in bed for an hour or two and get less sleep overall. Plus I really enjoy the solitude late at night.
Philosophy is the last resort for pseudo-intellectual teenagers who are too uneducated to talk about actual science and math where their baseless drivel would be objectively disproved.
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Mr Computer Brain can't into philosophy. Go cry on /sci/ or something faggot. You're making yourself look like an idiot.
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Yeah fuck you faggot
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>>1314313
>positvism
>bet you never thought of THAT before. Checkmate!
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Do you think curbing Arab nationalism was a factor in creating Israel? Putting Israel in the grand-smack middle between Egypt and Syria gets in the way of potential open borders and trade agreements between Arab states.
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>>1314215
I think the creation of the Israeli state was a fucking disaster. One that we have yet to fully pay for. That'll happen when that cocksucker Bibi gets too trigger happy and launches a missle towards Iran. Then he shit show will really begin. It's only a matter of time till they wipe themselves out. They can't handle their own nation. Too entrenched in that victim role.
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NSDAP wanted to send the kikes to Madagascar, but Zionists wanted Palestine.
Oh, how much the world would've been better today if the axis won.
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>>1314215
Yes. That was explicitly the British policy and one of their classic ploys everywhere.
The Ulstermen fucking love Israel as a result.
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Enough of the Military Uniforms and Upper class attire, time for a thread about real /fa/
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Peasants didn't have fashion, they just dressed modestly and practically according to what they could afford..
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>>1314146
Not correct, latter medieval peasants could often afford fashionable clothing. Enough that nobles started putting restrictions on what non nobles could wear
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>>1314151
>be a medevil peasent
>buy nice green shoes with 2 feet long points
>shoegate happens and the nobles put a 2 week waiting period on buying pointy shoes and limit the capacity to 2 inches. Also forbid any colors other than brown, black, and grey.
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God requires faith to exist, and proof of existences destroys faith.
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>>1314036
No.
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>>1314036
>God requires faith to exist
Explain
>proof of existences destroys faith.
"Faith" and "belief" are two translations of the same Greek word.
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>>1314036
>omnipotent deities obeying rules
Rules are only for people. Gods laugh at them. This was Plato's critique of the popular depictions of the gods, the gods behaved with impiety, but he was the impious one to question the natural order of things.