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>>879954
>I'm economic illiterate and I don't understand why not understanding economics makes for bad economics.

Have you ever played Dwarf Fortress?

Your fort starts small, 7 Dwarfs. You can make whatever they need. Your food stocks will soar (You can make more food and booze than your Dorfs will EVER eat). Everyone can get a tricked out swag pad filled with gold statues. You can mine mine mine until your heart is content. Sure, it takes a long time, because again, you only have seven Dwarves, but with enough time you can get those seven Dwarves whatever they want.

But as time goes on, you get more Dwarves. And they need more food. They need lots of rooms. Suddenly, you don't just have seven Dwarves, you have 200. It takes up a lot of space to make up all of their bedrooms, and you have to micromanage the actual building of these rooms, you have to plan out the turning of them from caves to smoothe tunnels, and then you have to micromanage MORE in order to swag it out with the gold statues. You need a lot of farms to make food and booze, which takes up more land, but also requires you to actually set these things up. You need to keep designating food and booze production, and you need to store the food.

And that's just bedrooms and food. That doesn't count the actual dining rooms. The workshops (Who do you decide what needs to be made? You do. And you have to go to every workshop and say "make x amount of this" by hand, and they won't make shit on their own as a Dwarf is useless unless given orders. And that doesn't even get into the fucking ARMY which is a godawful mess of micromanagement (You have to make all of their equipment, get them all to equip it BY HAND, and then tell them what to do and when, and they will NOT do anything on their own).

You're one man controlling the lives of 200 inbred alcoholics, scale that up to millions of inbred alcoholics.

because the economy is too chaotic to ever be planned

shit bait

>>879925
US during Vietnam.
GDR during the 80's.
USSR during the 80's also.
US during the 90's.

>>879925
I don't know why people like the Nazi uniforms so much, they're really pretty ugly.

>>879586
Given your terms are vacuous and your claims about external reality aren't grounded in the documentary record, you've denied the possibility of "proof" or rather "evidence of bad narratives" at all, and therefore cannot be proved wrong because you're not thinking in the least historically.

Fuck off to the other place where such fallacious reasoning is the norm.

>>879586
Who was the dictator?

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>>879586

>"German"
>"Democratic"
>"Republic"

>>879272
USSR's showpony.

"GUYS, IT'S TOTALLY NOT BAD IN THE WARSAW PACT. PLEASE DON'T LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN"

>>879272
>Why was the GDR able to create a western standard of living while the other eastern bloc countries, and even the soviet union, failed horribly?

It didnt.

>>879167
It's still one of the greatest works ever produced in the English language

>Anglos

Wow, what a surprise.

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Atheists sure are buttsore today.

FOURTEEN

FIFTY

THREE

>>878807
I would say the Eastern Empire collapsed in 1453, and the Western Empire in 476.

There are thousands of academic works on the subject, I highly doubt /his/ will solve the issue.

>>878807
1945
*tips stalhelm*

>>878453
Meme foods like KD, poutine, and beavertails.
Turning indians into alcoholics.
Building the robo-arm for the shuttle.

>>878546
kraft dinner is american though.

They fought well in the wars.

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>country has three capitals

>>877780
>>877785
Which?

>>877789
Benin – (Porto-Novo & Cotonou)
Chile – (Santiago & Valparaíso)
Netherlands – (Amsterdam & The Hague)
Bolivia – (Sucre & La Paz)
Republic of China – (Nanjing & Taipei)
Côte d'Ivoire – (Yamoussoukro & Abidjan)
Georgia – (Tbilisi & Kutaisi)
Honduras – (Tegucigalpa & Comayagüela)

I just copy and paste off Wikipedia

>>877526
Some of the later crusades were motivated by the need to reinforce the KoJ. But the first was just a war of (re-)conquest.

>>877526
>invade faraway lands and people who are barely even aware you exist
>last resort, defensive war
Even invading Afghanistan was more justified than the Crusades.

>>877526
No. At best they were humanitarian interventions. Crusades were highly organized projections of power by stable kingdoms with the resources to spare.

It's Christianity+ just fuck me up+ fantasy

Sounds like your usual tribalistic religion.

Christian american fan fiction.

Really nice people tho.

I don't see how is Italian or Greek military significantly worse than any other European military is. And if it is it is most likely caused by lower income to the army rather than shitty people like you're implying

>>876853
It's pointless to compare the people of regions over such long time spans.

It would be more useful to ask why Rome was so much better than it's contemporaries or why Italy is so much worse than it's contemporaries. Or you could ask when the Rome's military might began to fail and why.

>>876853
Greeks have... decent military. Outdated but relatively big, or at least they've had it not so long ago, dunno if something changed(and probably something changed since there was crisis etc.).

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>>876239
>just cause something happened in the past doesnt mean its gonna happen again in the future

Shit posting aside how come Hume isnt more reviled by people for destroying the logical foundations of the scientific method?

>>876239
>if ought to know something, then you basically already know it while you don't even know it yet since you don't really know anything anyway

>>875503
Mosley would disagree with you.

>>875507
And the Falange.

>>875507
Ironically, the British example means that the Labour party is fascist, by this definition.

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Speaking of John Greene.

>>874688
>Fact 53: Did you know that the anglos are the most powerfull race in the world

Walking meme.

>>874490
yapoo

Hah, is that from the LOGH opera shit? So goofy.

A large part of the IJA's Westernization was due to Prussian military advisors. Originally, the French were the top choice but their reputation diminished after the Franco-Prussian War. Prussian infantry tactics helped Japan defeat China in a lopsided war, but also led to enormous casualties against the Russians.

>>874490
>military
>autism
>imperialism
>chuu2 german