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not at all

Germany stood more to lose in North Africa than Italy did.

Suez was a huge key to international shipping, and the Middle East had a bunch of oil that the German war machine desperately needed.

If anything, Hitler severely underestimated the importance of the African theater.

not at all

>>591786
You can fuck off and go kill yourself, Narcolombia.

>>591801
>Narcolombia
>Not realizing this was Bolivar's dream, the greatest man from this continent
Jokes on you

>best nation in all history
>run by the most backwards people in Western Europe

No

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>>591357
Antikythera mechanism

There wasn't a full tolerance of homosexuality at all.

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>>591365
A method for calculating pi by Archimedes.

>>591163

And Egypt.
East was always the richest area.

>>591163
Trade with middle east and africa. Middle east is also the proxy for India/China

>>591166
This, Constantinople's location also helped with trade and taxes from ships travelling through and since it was mostly ignored by the huns it retained much of its wealth after the fall of the western half

haha
no

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>>590876
Ja.

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Every German secretly dreams about this.

People don't think about the future anymore. Nihilism has taken over.

>>590634
>>590558
You are both too young, the people who care about the future are the ones who have built something already like a family or company or country

>>590558
The Welfare state has made it so that it's entirely unnecessary to leave one for your children. You can spend your whole life looking out for yourself and your carrier, and not have to worry about their future because someone else will be there to pick up your slack.

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>"The Dark Ages"

>The Renaissance was a peaceful era
Now you're just making shit up, no one says that.

>>590527
they were dark you dumb sperglord

fucking christian apologetics ffs

Jesus christ you are retarded.

The paradox of Theseus' Ship can not ba applied to any living self regulating organism. The human body knows when a part of it does not belong. It has means of accessing this and it spits out shit that shouldn't be there.

Congrats we don't really exist in any essential, discrete way and the ground of being is nothingness, you're officially a buddhist

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The one that really fucks with my mind:

It's the future. We have the technology to completely create people artificially, from scratch. A clone of is made of me, perfectly cloned in the physical sence. Then the entire contents of my brain is copied to a computer, and inserted into the clone. What happens to my frame of reference? Will "I" experience the world from two bodies now, myself and the clone? Who is truely "me"? Both the original me, and the clone? The clone is so perfect that not even my family can tell the difference. Am i not then the clone? Can i see the world through his eyes? Fuck.

Well i don't know too much about the battle(though i'm greek) but going against turks(seljuks) using turks(Patzinaks and others) is pretty retarded.

Anyone else have some ideas? I'd like to know where it all went wrong.

>>590276
I'd say Manzikert was a symptom of the Empire's problems more than the cause. He fielded an army composed of mercenaries who weren't dedicated to the empire, and he returned from his captivity to a civil war and was blinded. Seems like the situation was pretty bad for the empire in general.

>>589654
>Are there any philosophers/ideologies that encourage victim mindsets or blaming others for their problems

Early Christianity was literally victim worship and about blaming the Jews and Romans for everything bad in the world. Saint Augestine blamed earth quake's on Roman Paganism.

>>589705
But the Jews and Romans were also responsible for the crucifiction and thus for the eventual salvation of mankind. Sin has an important place in theodicy.

>>589654
Communism
t.Nietzsche

>>589151
Sure is TANKY in here tonight.

He's the founding father. People still consider Darwin and Tesla geniuses even though their ideas have been updated. Why should Adam Smith be treating differently? You can admire Smith and Hayek you don't have to choose the most recent guy.

>>589151
>fags throwing "But muh the Invisible hand" at me
that's a pretty basic indication that the person talking to you doesn't know what you're talking about desu

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>>588976
Sometimes I can't believe that guy is Joseph Stalin. But he lacks glorious Habsburg chin

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>>588976
7/10
>>588994
10/10

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>>588976
11/10

>>588994
-11/10

>>589017
9/10

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>>588743
Not that one, that's for fucking sure.
>pic related

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America, leader of the world

>>588746
Pinochet did nothing wrong. Lawful Good all the way

"Sometimes, democracy must be bathed in blood"

Not start the war in the first place. Concede china to the american sphere of influence. That's about it.

>>588365
They couldn't. At best they could have dragged the war out.

>>588365


By January of 1942, it's already too late. There is 0 way to win a total war with the U.S., no matter how well you fight: Even with allocating the bulk of their resources to Europe, the U.S. outproduced Japan in important metrics, like carriers, by about 8:1; and those Essex carriers held more and better aircraft than what the Japanese are fielding. No amount of tactical success is going to hold off that tide if the U.S. really wants you dead.

Therefore, the only way you have a chance is to to the attrition-coercion route: You don't win, but you're expensive and bloody and dangerous enough that the U.S. doesn't think it's worth it to keep fighting and you can negotiate a peace with honor.

Unfortunately for Japan, the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor scuttled any such chances of that happening, and this was an ideological war to win and crush Japan into the dirt and break them forever, and damn the cost.

If you want to have a chance, you need to alter that underlying fact, the political pinning of the war; and to do that, you can't strike first. Best would be to respond to the American oil embargo by attacking the NEI and calling FDR's bluff that he would defend the Dutch government-in-exile. If they do declare war, loudly proclaim how you're fighting to protect innocent Asian people from perfidious colonial imperialists; like the U.S. which are threatening to do the same to them. Get involved in the press, the American press, but in the meantime defend hard, and knock out Guam and the Philipines, you can't afford those in your rear, but only AFTER the U.S. declares war.

Block off the sea of Japan to Lend-Lease, and give diplomatic assurances to FDR (whose main priority is and always was Europe) that you'd allow the Americans to ship through to Vladivostok and even use your own ports in Manchuria and Korea in exchange for a cessation of hostilities, and maybe work towards a larger peace deal.

Sounds good. Where do I start?

>>588199
His Enneads if you wanna dive into the deep end. Read his wiki page if you wanna get a solid overview

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>tfw golden soul