Poland, a country the fraction the size of France, with a fraction of the economic, industrial and military power, was attacked by Germany AND Russia and resisted for over a month.
Poland had no tanks, no modern air power, barely any artillery or anti-tank guns, and was terribly outnumbered. They had no allies and no help.
They resisted for 36 days.
France, a huge, leading military power, had Char 1-B tanks markedly superior to German machines, fuck-ton of artillery, lines of heavy fortification, modern fighter planes, and endless blowjobs from Parisian whores.
They were NOT attacked by the Russians, and had the British Expeditionary Force aiding them in battle, as well as Belgian troops when the French/British forces finally acted and joined forces when Belgium was attacked.
France lasted 35 days
Can someone explain this?
>>324348
>Poland had no tanks
Wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7TP
They also made use of French built R 35s
> no modern air power
Wrong.
PZL 11s, 23s, and 37s.
> barely any artillery or anti-tank guns
They had well over a thousand field guns; I'm less sure about ATGs, but most armies would field similar numbers of each.
>France lasted 35 days
If you start counting from Fall Gelb, they lasted 45 days.
>Can someone explain this?
Field resistance in Poland ended extremely soon, and 10 days into the invasion, you only really had pockets of resistance in Warsaw and Lodz. City fighting takes a long time, you can't use a lot of the quickeners of modern war, air, artillery, armor to the same extent.
France surrendered when the field army got cut off and was in a hopeless position, without making futile gestures of city resistance.
even if some of that info was wrong, Polands resistance was still pretty impressive.
the polish have always been fighters
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Also, how effective was the imperial army as a fighting force just before WW2, when they were in China?
>>324285
THEY WERE FIGHTING FOR THE EMPERRORRRRRRRRRRRRRR
>Now [Bohemond] was such as, to put it briefly, had never before been seen in the land of the Romans [that is, Greeks], be he either of the barbarians or of the Greeks (for he was a marvel for the eyes to behold, and his reputation was terrifying). Let me describe the barbarian's appearance more particularly – he was so tall in stature that he overtopped the tallest by nearly one cubit, narrow in the waist and loins, with broad shoulders and a deep chest and powerful arms. And in the whole build of the body he was neither too slender nor overweighted with flesh, but perfectly proportioned and, one might say, built in conformity with the canon of Polycleitus... His skin all over his body was very white, and in his face the white was tempered with red. His hair was yellowish, but did not hang down to his waist like that of the other barbarians; for the man was not inordinately vain of his hair, but had it cut short to the ears. Whether his beard was reddish, or any other colour I cannot say, for the razor had passed over it very closely and left a surface smoother than chalk... His blue eyes indicated both a high spirit and dignity; and his nose and nostrils breathed in the air freely; his chest corresponded to his nostrils and by his nostrils...the breadth of his chest. For by his nostrils nature had given free passage for the high spirit which bubbled up from his heart. A certain charm hung about this man but was partly marred by a general air of the horrible... He was so made in mind and body that both courage and passion reared their crests within him and both inclined to war. His wit was manifold and crafty and able to find a way of escape in every emergency. In conversation he was well informed, and the answers he gave were quite irrefutable. This man who was of such a size and such a character was inferior to the Emperor alone in fortune and eloquence and in other gifts of nature.
Let's settle this: was Anna Komenena dicked by Bohemond?
>>324080
She was 14 when that happened
And she wrote that when she was 89.
>yfw never be so handsome octogenarian women masturbate to your memory.
BIG
NORMAN
Name a historical civilization that no longer exists and some sort of law it had that was innovative for the time.
Rome
>>324120
Cool.
Golden Liberty in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, first modern example of democracy.
Is Adam and eve a true story or is it a metaphor? If so explain the metaphor press
It's a story about a snake who tries to set humanity free and how thankless they are for it
>>323969
Can any Christians explain the used the tree of knowledge as a bad thing? Surely knowledge is a good thing?
>>323969
Basically the entire story is about why humans shouldnt think for ourselves. We were perfectly happy in God's nature preserve until eve the human actually starting thinking for herself and convinced adam to think for himself and god was so mad that his sex dolls were given reason that he removed the exhibit from the zoo and made childbirth painful. We have since done our own thing and fought for our own destinies and this is why humanity is evil.
Also a talking lizard that is then transformed into a snake because god thought it would be funny to make the nigga dryhump the eartg everywhere he went. Humans and snakes are essentially evil monsters that escaped from God's zoo and conquered the world in the name of evil reason and logic
>God
Who began this meme
Monotheistic God?
Zoroastrianism?
>There is a god
>>323905
Some sandnigger named Moses
Hello /his/,
I've been listening to Rasputin by Boney M. lately and I'm wondering how many songs there are out there from contemporary times with a narrative or theme drawn from historical events/people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yTVWXYctoY
OP obviously related, but I also know James K. Polk by They Might Be Giants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StTiCU_fqCg
I'd also accept songs from Television shows that are supposed to be educational, a la Animaniacs or Histeria.
A few of my favorites from Histeria! Which is actually a show I hardly ever see talked about.
Invasion Song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75F5RaU5wSM
Terrible Tudors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAmRSHRwADE
>>323851
Anything from that show with Stalin was always A+.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHZQXNe2HpQ
>>323847
Alexander the Great by Iron Maiden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oTEQf1d9Iw
And then he said "I'm a philosophy major"
Why are some mayors "better" than others?
>>323863
Because philosophy is a dying field.
>>323934
The humanities are a dying a field because they are being co-opted and usurped by positivism and scientism.
Philosophy will continue regardless if it is taught in the Universities or not.
>"Ezekiel tells us that Gog, the nation that will lead all of the other powers of darkness against Israel, will come out of the north. Biblical scholars have been saying for generations that Gog must be Russia. What other powerful nation is to the north of Israel? None. But it didn’t seem to make sense before the Russian revolution, when Russia was a Christian country. Now it does, now that Russia has become Communistic and atheistic, now that Russia has set itself against God. Now it fits the description of Gog perfectly." - Ronald Reagan
how do you respond?
>Now it fits the description of Gog perfectly
Confirmation bias
>>323712
>yfw you realize Reagan was really thinking his times were the apocalyps
goddamn 'muricca
>>323712
>Protestants
>Christians
Was it ever possible or did Hitler just take too much meth?
It would have been somewhat possible if the Germans had any amphibious landing craft. Their lack of air superiority would have fucked them, though.
The German invasion of England seemed rather half assed. They didn't commit to it long. They just spent some time harassing British citizens and then quit. Committing to an invasion on the scale of Operation Barbarossa might have worked.
With the navy the Germans had? No chance in hell. The RAF also decimated the Luftwaffe.
So /his/ what can you tell me about him, both historically and philosophically
Basically the inventor of Abrahamic religion
Mithraism as one of the systems of belief which originated from Zoroastrian doctrines. Of Persian origin, Mithraism flourished in Ancient Rome and elsewhere, and was considered a "mortal enemy" of early Christianity. So many parallels existed between the two, as much in doctrines as in practices, that the early Christians, on becoming ascendant, took every measure possible to eliminate all traces of Mithraism. They destroyed the Mithraic temples, and violently eliminated the priests and adherents of Mithraism wherever they found them. It is therefore somewhat surprising to find that so many Mithraic beliefs and rituals were conveniently emulated( purloined ?) by their early Christian rivals, e.g. the use of bread and wine , forms of dress such as the mitre, etc
He invented the concept of an absolute dichotomy between good and evil.
imo
How does it feels to be forced to know how to speak english (and to speak english) just because the anglos were good merchants, when some country with a far superior culture have very few speakers in comparison?
(It feels bad)
ITT : Which langage should be used internationaly, according to history?
English
>>323542
english is easy and very flexible, that is why it did stuck with everone in the first place.
>>323542
We actually all speak English because Britain lost a war to some peasant helped by France in 1783
>French replaced Latin as the most important language of diplomacy and international relations (lingua franca) in the 17th century. It retained this role until approximately the middle of the 20th century, when it was replaced by English as the United States became the dominant global power following the Second World War.[40][41
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language#History
Ever wondered why the Germans in 1914 (height of the British Empire) talked to British officials in French ("chiffon de papier")?
Because even at the height of its empire, Britain wasnt relevant enough to make English the international language
It's only after WW2 than America managed to make English the lingua franca thank to its political and cultural (hollywood, rock'n'roll...etc) dominance.
You can thank us, bong.
We made "your" language great.
I've been reading a lot of pic related and it seems there is a major change between his earlier and later works, my question is: is resistance a possibility in his work? Can we ever break from the simulacra? His later work The Agony of Power makes me think that his philosophy can be reconciled with some sort of autonomist resistance.
>Baudrillard general
Postmodernism has eaten itself and been shat back out.
>>323557
nice try Habermas
Baudrillard, along with Barthes, Derrida, Foucault etc, illustrates the key weakness of the French intellectual left: their refusal to acknowledge human reality.
The basic idea that everything is a simulacrum was robustly refuted by the Anglo Saxon tradition in philosophy. It is either dishonest, or if seriously meant, false.
He was an intellectual charlatan,Philip K Dick without the pills
At what point does one draw the line between philosophy and religion?
Nietzsche.
Most atheists are more religious than you think
The relative quantity of spooks
I wish I was kidding
>>323799
>Most atheists are more religious than you think
How so? Isn't the absence of belief not a belief?
What were the historic reasons for the Iraq war I.e. how was it justified.
it wasn't
>>323368
saddam was mad that kuwait had more oil than him and invaded
>>323368
technically speaking there's no discernible justification short of
>le oil
>le 9/11
>le you're either with us or against us
>le WMDs
>le insert democracy!
>le failed dictatorship
of course these days it's mostly
>le stop extremists, save yurop
>le moderate rebels
if I missed any feel free to chime in