Is WW2 the most plebbiest period in history?
You always see double digit IQ retards in their threads while on other periods they're very rare.
I think cold war might be a little bit worse but yes either of the two
> world consumes itself in global war with at least four competing ideologies, to the death
> not interesting
How's being a contrarian teenager? I remember it well.
>>3395740
I'm not saying that it's not interesting, it is
It's just it brings the worst morons to the discussion, be it naziboo stormfags or tankie leftypol fags.
It's just irritating because every ww2 revolves around /pol/ faggotry, holocaust denial, what if Hitler did "insert something" here, etc.
*nasalises your vowel*
*ignores your thread because no one on int likes linguistics*
>>3395957
This is /his/
>>3395977
>implying there's a difference
This was the prequel DLC they paired with that WWI game when the players complained you didn"t get to see enough fighting in Paris.
Ottoman landings in Iceland
cut plot line for the WW2 season. They killed him off and replaced him because the producers thought he would overshadow the characters they wanted to focus on
>Japanese lose 4 fucking carriers in Midway
holy fuck, what went so wrong?
was it just bad luck or were they just that fucking incompetent?
Bad damage control procedures, like the fact that Japanese ships had a dedicated damage control team rather than giving everyone the training like on American ships, results in much of the losses Japan experienced that weren't instant sinks.
they fucked with 'murica and they got fucked
>>3395807
Using pre-treaty carriers (minus the Shokaku-class, which were treaty cheats anyway) were extremely fragile. When you combine extreme vulnerability (as in, one bomb has a chance to kill the whole carrier) with the fact that technology and carrier tactics of the time of any country was incapable of stopping an enemy strike from hitting your carrier, you had to be prepared to lose your carriers if the enemy found you.
US could have lost all 3 carriers if the second strike from the Hiryu had found CV-6's task force rather than hitting CV-5 again.
I wan't to add some Allied and Axis stuff to my history folder.
>>3395571
Giant dump incoming.
Also I recommend this /hr/ thread: >>>/hr/2992094
>>3395705
>>3395708
I posted a few WW2 images here, too: >>3391353
Was Hitler a Bodhisattva?
>>3395703
NO.
>>3395741
Explain
>>3396206
Ur mum's pussy. I fucked it silly.
Why are there names like Chad and Howie that are pretty unique to America and not other cultures?
>>3395567
>Why are there names like LeShaquiqua and LeShite'ad that are pretty unique to America and not other cultures
>>3395630
White trash in Australia sometimes give their kids names like that.
>>3395567
Is half of this board incapable of using Wikipedia?
Is Von Clausewitz the best military theorist in history?
Sun Tzu's works is too broad/generalized and is only useful as general guidance of "use common sense and don't do stupid thing" while Jomini is too focused on the mechanization of war that as technology and tactics evolved, his idea is fast becoming obsolete
>>3395514
No, that's Charles De Gaulle
>>3395514
His work tops the West Point list of military classics: https://pastebin.com/Sy6aKb39
The others on that list are worth reading as well though.
>>3395555
Have you ever read de Gaylle?
Enlighten me /his/, is there any reason why the toilet culture of the Romans was completely lost in the middle ages? I just can't wrap my mind around the fact that the knowledge of public toilets was more or less lost.
They've built cities and public toilets all over Europe, why did no one bother to build roman style toilets after the fall of Rome? Was it really that much more convenient to shit on the street or throw your shit out of the window?
>>3395392
No running water = no public toilets.
>>3395392
Do you know how much infrastructure and organisation it requires to supply a city with fresh running water, let alone heated water? Many of the medieval kings lacked the resources to invest such large amounts while they had more pressing issues or wanted to expand their small territories.
Also, the reason why Romans were so effective in building this infrastructure (e.g. aqueducts) is because they ruled a large empire, allowing them to transport water for miles. This is a significant hurdle for small kingdoms.
>>3395410
>>3395420
I see your point, but just think about central Europe, there were cities like Cologne which also had running water etc., those cities used Roman infrastructure for hundreds of years and somehow no one cared enough about the toilets to copy them.
Even if you ignore public toilets with running water, public pit latrines are still better than a river of shit on the street.
>>3395385
Technically Poland was "a noblemen democracy" with elected kings (the election looked like pic related, all neblemen could vote):
>The countries with the highest proportion of nobles were Castile (probably 10%), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (15% of an 18th-century population of 800,000), Spain (722,000 in 1768 which was 7–8% of the entire population) and other countries with lower percentages, such as Russia in 1760 with 500,000–600,000 nobles (2–3% of the entire population), and pre-revolutionary France where there were no more than 300,000 prior to 1789, which was 1% of the population (although some scholars believe this figure is an overestimate). In 1718 Sweden had between 10,000 and 15,000 nobles, which was 0.5% of the population. In Germany 0.01%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobility#Europe
>Perhaps the closest parallels to Poland's 'Noble Democracy' can be found outside Europe altogether ? in America ? among the slave-owning aristocracy of The South, where slave-owning democrats and founding fathers of the USA such as Thomas Jefferson or George Washington had many values in common with the reformist noblemen of the Commonwealth.[12]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Liberty
>In theory at least, all Polish noblemen were social equals. Also in theory, they were legal peers. Those who held 'real power' dignities were more privileged but these dignities were not hereditary. Those who held honorary dignities were higher in 'ritual' hierarchy but these dignities were also granted for a lifetime. Some tenancies became hereditary and went with both privilege and titles. Nobles who were not direct barons of the Crown but held land from other lords were only peers "de iure".
>>3395398
>The poorest enjoyed the same rights as the wealthiest magnate. The exceptions were a few symbolically privileged families such as the Radziwiłł, Lubomirski and Czartoryski, who sported honorary aristocratic titles recognized in Poland or received from foreign courts, such as "Prince" or "Count". (see also The Princely Houses of Poland). All other szlachta simply addressed each other by their given name or as "Sir Brother" (Panie bracie) or the feminine equivalent.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szlachta
>The political system of the Rzeczpospolita was regarded by the nobility as the best in the world, and the Polish Sejm as (factually[17]) the oldest. The system was frequently compared to Republican Rome and to the Greek polis – though each of these eventually surrendered to imperial rule or to tyrants. The Henrician Articles were considered to be the foundation of the system. Every attempt to infringe on these laws was treated as a great crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmatism
>>3395385
what was so wrong with the system, and how is it worse than communism?
>>3395462
>t.assblasted Americuck
Don't be sad fat little American, it's not like it was the only war you lost.
Why didn't the frogs extend it along the Belgian border as well?
>>3395351
>Hon hon hon, les Krautes won't do something as crazy as invading Belgium to sidestep our defe-
On a serious note, I might be wrong.
>>3395381
I wasn't so much "they will never go into Belgium" rather the French overcompensated by moving a huge force into Belgium to meet the Germans thinking "it is impossible for tanks to move through the ardennes" and then when that happened they got cut off and destroyed.
>>3395351
The Belgians forbade them from doing so because they thought it would mean the French would be hiding behind their wall while Belgium was occupied.
top 10 anime betrayals
>>3395330
So hear me out, let overthrow the Tsar in the middle of the war, and let us (literally nobodies) rule the country, that will surely bring order and stability and nothing will go wrong
>>3395386
desu his greatest mistake was not concluding a truce. Madman even undertook an offensive (which was a moderate success). That and being generally lenient to Bolsheviks.
>>3395386
and font forget continuing the war and lunching a offensive that would end up in disaster killing thousands of soldiers and weakening the army
Why were the CUP (The Young Turks) nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1910?
>>3395283
"Nominator:
Name: Ahmed Riza
Gender: M
Profession: President of the Ottoman parliament"
Well, that explains a lot.
But initially they did restore a constitutional democracy in Turkey before they went full Turan.
>>3395283
Why did Kissinger and Arafat win?
>>3395323
I didn't realise you could nominate your own party for a Nobel Prize, that's a little ludicrous.
>Trotsky was peace-loving and not authoritarian
>The soviet union would still exist if Trotsky took power
Is this the biggest meme started by /leftypol/?
>>3395394
>biggest meme
Not even close. Try
>Gommunism would totes work if it weren't for those evildumb CRAPitalists!
/leftypol/ mostly hates trots, lurk more
Trotsky apologism predates the existence of /leftypol/, Trotsky started it himself