What should I read next?
>>3227049
I bought this book and was going to read it but I lost it.
General reading thread?
Currently reading this. It's not amazing, I think it focuses on the emotional/personal stuff a bit too much but it's pretty enjoyable. Thinking about maybe Stalingrad by Beevor next
Prisoners of Geography
Despite the title, it's more optimistic than senile white man drivel.
Im in dire need of help, what is the name of the outfit Shōwa(or Hirohito) is wearing
Uniform?
>>3226995
this could help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_uniform_and_dress_in_the_Empire_of_Japan#The_Emperor.27s_Western_clothes
What are your toughts on the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi? Do you think is still possible to solve the case?.
Also, there are some files leaked by Paolo Gabriele and published in the book Sua Santità—Le Carte Segrete di Benedetto XVI; are there available in an electronic format?
Should i post this at /pol ?
Childhood is idolizing Alexander the Great,
Adulthood is realizing Darius made more sense
>>3226838
Alexander cucked Darius for years when he got his wife as a hostage
>>3226838
Childhood is idolizing Alexander
Adulthood is realizing Darius I would have whooped dat azz.
Good thread.
So what was actual combat in WW2 like? Was it like today where you just shoot for hours at distant dots on the horison that may or may not be the enemy, while artillery and air strikes do most of the kills anyway?
I refuse to believe it was like they depict it in CoD where you always fight at close quarters and spam grenades every five seconds.
The battlefield was constantly moving due to it being the first war with true mechanized warfare. They tended to move so fast that the supply lines couldn't catch up.
In europe anyway. In the push to Japan it was a much more dragged out war.
>>3226828
Idk I wasn't there
>>3226828
>refuse to believe it was like they depict it in CoD where you always fight at close quarters and spam grenades every five seconds.
City battles were totally like this.
In the opening hours of Battle of Berlin, the Russians put out something like 2,500,000 artillery shells, instantly obliterating much of the city, yet there was enough Germans left to fight for next 17 days.
although its pseudo bullshit
what is he actually trying to claim in his work?
I don't know, but i think he tried to claim that there was a giant Slav-Turkish empire called the "Russian Horde" that had a huge influence on history but was erased in the history books from westerners
isn't this the guy that said Jesus was born in 1200 ad?
Imagine a world where JFK was never assassinated, the US and USSR made it to the Moon together, and NASA funding went through the roof as military spending dwindled into non-existence, with the American people leaving behind Vietnam as something that should never happen again.
>>3226453
Funnily enough, the idea of inviting a few cosmonauts to the moon actually was talked about, although the idea of killed pretty quickly by some sniveling bureaucrat. It would have been bretty cool.
Why is it that almost every country was able to outlaw slavery without having a civil war about it, but when America tried to outlaw slavery, it caused a massive civil war that killed like half the country's population? It just seems weird, that's all.
Most of the countries that abolished slavery were shitholes that had more civilized countries force them to.
In fact, that's pretty much what happened in America, it's just that the CSA put up a better fight than, say, Zanzibar.
It is the American character to misinterpret and kill in the name of the Bonus Situation.
>>3226428
Most people that stood to benefit fought against outlawing slavery. Places in Africa and Asia were forced by far stronger empires to put an end to it, where they knew if they resisted, they'd be slaughtered.
CSA was basically the only place in the world that had slavery, but was developed enough and had the will to fight against it.
Also, throughout Britain, France and Spain, they just paid the slavers a shit tonne of money as compensation whereas in the US they just declared all slaves free and that was that.
>it caused a massive civil war that killed like half the country's population
Consider suicide.
Has there ever been a recorded instance of a leader pursuing some occult or "mythical" item in order to gain power from it like the "Spear of Destiny"
I'm not trying to have another "Hitler and the Occult" thread, unless Hitler tried to obtain one of these items.
>>3226391
During the second punic War, after the string of defeats culminating in Cannae, the Romans sent an expedition to Greek Anatolia to secure the sacred stone of a god named Cybele and to bring it back to Rome as a way to induct the new deity into their pantheon.
Aside from this I can't think of any examples.
>>3226391
Saddam Hussein had a copy of the Necronomicon. It's currently in the hands of ISIS. Why else do they conceal themselves in all black, destroying every ancient religious artifact they can find? Why do their followers spontaneously go mad and shoot up public places?
>>3226391
The Ptolemies stole Alexander the Greats body and entombed it in Alexandria. I don't know if that counts.
Why does society value older men more than older women?
Why do you think? Some of the most evil people in the world are older men.
Men have a greater chance to die or fuck up so it's more impressive to be a decently successful old man.
>>3226366
Older men are still fertile.
In Europe, the prime example of a christian is Francis of Assissi, in America the prime example of a christian is Ronald Reagan.
Discuss.
>>3226309
Really made me think.
"And the King will say, 'I tell you the truth, when you did it to one of the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were doing it to me!'"
Honest question. Islam's law are incredibly oppressive and yet it survived for 1400 years.
(Hard Mode: don't shit on liberals for being PC because that shit didn't exist until the 1900s)
>>3226270
Because being oppressive is not necessarily detrimental to being stable.
Also, islam is not necessarily as oppressive as it is interpreted to be by the sunni today.
Because they still charge people for apostasy in many countries, you'd see a lot more atheists in the middle east if it were as easy as the west
Because Islamic fundamentalism is in fact revivalism and the average sand nigger in MENA did all kinds of haram things without even realizing they were haram until the Ottoman empire collapsed.
Africans don't have cultu-
>>3226202
>>3226183
Is that Albert Fish? If so, yes.
>>3226183
Now don't laugh at this next part...
Stop driving a good car.
Start making good cars.
HEIL HONECKER
SMASH RIGHTISM AND COSMOPOLITAN "LEFT" TROTSKYISM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcfEAY-Gt7E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdrEb4xIgv8