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...It was... Catastrophic... think about that folks...

Yes.

Are there any good sieges?

>>947089

Because they hugely underestimated the strength of France, having kicked the crap out of them in the last war, and hugely overestimated the strength of Russia, who was big, scary, and building railroads like nobody's business.

France, seeming the weaker opponent, was the one that they thought would crumple if they hit first and hard enough, which would then let them turn their full attention on Russia.

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>>947105
I don't understand why that is the case. Successfully executing their plan would require a meticulous understanding of the French operations, and given how close they were to paris at the battle of the marne, they almost achieved their goals. I'm not really confused by the minutiae of the operation, I just don't see the strategic reasoning behind it.

Germany didn't have a contiguous border with russia at the time, so it would be more difficult to hold them off with a limited force and would leave them overly reliant on austria. A strong anti-russian offensive would have given france and britain a way to avoid the war if they wanted to and strengthened their austrian ally.

>>947089
I think fighting defensively on the western front would have been a better idea. Defensive tactics would have suited the static warfare which defined the western front, while avoiding drawing in the UK and Belgium into the war. Looking at their record on the eastern front, they could have concentrated their efforts on defeating Russia before taking care of France.

The Schlieffen plan was Germany's fatal error to begin with (even if they did get close to Paris)

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>>947026

The concept of "freedom", as it currently exists, is a spook.

>>947026

Freedom is just a code word for comfort. In the US at least.

>>947026
>The concept of "freedom"
>as it currently exists
freedom is now and forever has been a lie

Wow. Quotes like this show how little people have changed. We think ourselves so much more enlightened but this just shows how stupid that idea really is.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.

>>946994

I think it's sad that we are not teaching ethics in schools. How are we to know what a good person is then? How can we be good people if we do not hold a clear definition of what a good person who distinguishes between good and bad moral action is.

Even is prisons do they make an effort to give the offenders an education in ethics and morals of the society in which they live in, no. They leave prison as ignorant on that matter as when they entered still lacking in the faculty to distinguish good from bad action, still blind.

>2016
>Not being an Ethical Egoist

Camera? You mean, like, a phone?

>>946897
I suppose the Medieval era if the Arabs or Latins writing their books on optics figured out a way to imprint images onto some material by getting lucky with some chemical reaction that didn't have to involve much understanding of electrical currents. It'd be accidental though.

>>946897
The concept of the camera obscura is very ancient. Dating back to the end of the first millennium. It has become relatively popular from the eighteenth century.

However, the chemistry involved is much more recent. Several trials and errors were necessary, and even accidental discoveries, to be able to record images on flat surfaces by exposure to light.

It's all three actually. Read Leddihn :^)

>United Soviet Socialist "Republic"

>>946647
DPRK is a republic by the virtue of it lacking a monarchy. Yeah it's kind of a hereditary oligarchy but as long as the Kims don't literally crown themselves, call themselves kings and declare divine right, it's a republic

>>946563
I think using the term "egypt" is a broad term.

Ptolemaic Kingdom within Egypt adapted it's native customs and it's Hellenic culture for 300 years.

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Fuck off normie Egypt is NOT HELLENIC.

>>946563
No, it was obviously Macedonia.

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>>946368

Me.

>>946402
This guy

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>>946402

tulips

Flemish brain drain

>>946325
Capitalism, free trade, de facto freedom of speech and religion, high literacy rates, high labor productivity, high human capital, insane preindustrial urbanization rates, female work force, high age of marriage, innovative shipbuilding, a bunch of great leaders and traders.

I'd say the above mentioned are both symptoms and effects of a good economy and once the ball got rolling it kept going until Napoleon and the industrial revolution.

Here's a tip.

If you're debating whether to attack white people or brown people, attack the brown people.

For the purposes of this discussion, Native Americans should be considered brown.

Also, don't be late to the party and expect anything good to be left.

>>946238
We didn't. We learned about this all the time.

>>946238
Because America had the continent effectively to itself; who was going to offer meaningful resistance to its?

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>>946231

Europa Universalis 4, Age of Chivalry the mod of HL2, Mount and Blade Warband, Pirates Knights and Vikings 2, Darkest Hour: Europe '44 - '45, Darkest Hour: Mare Nostrum, JFK Reloaded, Verdun, Knights of Honor, Victoria 2.

Try not to get yourself consumed with this like I do. I feel very weak and my mind feels like a slave to these games.

Also if you want to add me on Steam here's my address: http://steamcommunity.com/id/
PullTheTriggerKillTheNigger/

>>946259
None of those are board games you cuck.

>>946260

Oh, board games. I'd do Risk, but that's really the only boardgame I know about.

Good isn't, evil is.

>>946150
Perhaps.

We can't really ask animals, can we?

>>946105
>Do you also believe in the notion of free will?
No.

>>946109
How curious. I was looking for someone to say this actually. Care to elaborate a little? In my opinion the lack of belief in free will seems like a rather depressing outlook on life.

>>946105
Playing devil's advocate here: you can have certain proclivities and personality flaws and still resist them for rational reasons.

As an easy example, humans are biologically predisposed to be afraid of the dark but most people have no trouble mastering this fear.

>>945059
THis meme stopped being funny, like, the second time it was posted.

>inb4 butthurt Kraut

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the what?

>>945059
LOLLLLLLLLL

>>944933

A potentially historic find

If the results are born out through further research, Point Roseewould become just the second verified Viking site in North America.

The first site is at L'Anse Aux Meadows, near the northern-most tip of Newfoundland, about 600 kilometres away.

Evidence of that thousand-year-oldsettlement was discovered in the 1960sand took years to verify.

Archeologists maintainthat Vikings may have usedtheirL'Anseaux Meadows settlement as a "base camp for expeditions further south."

It's not known how long thatcamp— now apopular tourist attraction that Parks Canada operates as a National Historic Site —was used before it was abandoned about a thousand years ago.

At the very least, the researchers in Point Roseehave found evidence of another early iron-working site in the province.

The Norse were the only ones extracting iron from bogs 1,000 years ago.

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>>944935

Satellite innovations

As part of their early research, Parcak said, the team used Google Maps satellite imagery to look for potential hot spots along the Atlantic Ocean.

Furtherhigh-resolution scans led them to send a team to Point Roseeand start to survey for artifacts.

Parcak won the 2016 TED Prize for her work using satellite imagery in archeology, a field the organization said she largely engineered.

"When we started the project, my hypothesis wasn't that we would find anything Norse, my hypothesis was that we would not," she said.

Instead, after a survey in 2015,her team found signs of iron-working and evidence of a turf wall, like the ones the Norse are known to have used.

Newfoundland and Labrador government officials who worked alongside the searcherssay more evidence, and more artifacts, are needed to be sure of aViking presence on the island`s western coast.

"There's just not enough evidence to date to go either way on it," said Martha Drake, an archeologist with the provincial offices.

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>>944938

Birgitta Wallace, considered the foremost authority on the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, was equally unconvinced that the find was an authentic Norse site.

"The roasting of the ore could be accidental. All it would take is a camp fire on the ground where the soil is full of bog ore. Such areas are common in Newfoundland," she wrote in an email.

Wallace was part of the excavation team at L'Anse aux Meadows.

She's not sure the supposed turf walls are an exact match, either.

"The results could be exciting, but until then I consider the case unsettled."

Parcaksaidshe's looking for more evidence. She'd like to see more carbon-dating that coincides with the Viking era, further evidence of metal-working and maybe a Norse-specificobject to put them over the top.

"I hate, as an archeologist … to say it's definitely Norse," she said. "We absolutely cannot say that right now."
"A lot of people in the press are calling this a Norse settlement. We absolutely cannot call it a settlement."
"If it is Norse, the most we can say right now is that it's a small farm or perhaps a temporary winter camp."

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