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>>73299
Because everyone remembers them, right?

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>>73299

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Colonial Empires are low tier crap
I pity countries that never had a Continental European Empire

>>72936
Because they lost

They was like all other greek colonies in Italy, nothing special here

>>73209
what a fucking retard

>>72669

Addiction is not real, many historical figures used drugs we now consider "addictive" but simply did not have the culture of helplessness to justify their character weakness as a disease.

Sigmund Freud liked cocaine. Winston Churchill was an alky. That's all i can think of off the top of my head.

Was the shit he took really considerd as a drug at this time? Because i doubt this.
its like people look back at someone from our time and say: He smoked. he was a drug addict

>>73029
>Addiction is not real
....

Anyone else think that the Wall St Crash was the necessary precondition for Hitler's rise to power?

>>72413
why would that be so ?

>>72350
It was pretty sad that it was just starting to get better when the crash happening and killed them permanently.

>>72338

>Is he the greatest general in human history?

I'm not even sure I'd rate him top 5.

I mean, you have either Genghis Khan or Subotai, depending on which one you credit as the real geinus behind the Mongolian conquests, you've got Napoleon, you've got Alexander, you've got guys like Guo Ziyi and Khalid Ibn Al-Walid. Do you think Hannibal is better than any of them?

>Are the stories about him more legend than history?

Probably in regards to the ones about his personality, quotes, and habits. His decisive victories in the Second Punic war are pretty well established though.

>>72338
>Is he the greatest general in human history?
No, he couldn't even take Rome. I would personally probably say Belisarius was the greatest in history simply because he conquered Italy and North Africa as well as frequently defeating the Persians and Bulgars despite often having too few soldiers.

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>Hannibal
>a man living in Africa at the time
>white
When will this meme die?

>>72191

Nationalism mixed with the teaching of Darwinism, like survival of the fittest

>>72191
the french revolution

Guarantee of Belgian neutrality.

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>Build churches in a way that just seems impractical

>>72115
all that I know is that they are the worst african country with even worse iq scores than other africans.

>>72115
I wish people would stop making generals.

As opposed to who?
Allied generals that win through superior numbers & supplies?

>>71899

As opposed to generals who were actually good at their jobs. Guys like Kesselring, or Manstein if you want to stick to WW2 Germans.

>>71881
>Yes he's lauded as a general almost without peer, despite being a walking embodiment of the Peter Principle.

I think him turning into a secular saint is based on
* The importance of Egypt (Suez Canal) to the British war effort,
* His involvement in the plot against Hitler, but most importantly
* Rommel wasn't involved in the Eastern Front, and so never got tainted by atrocities committed there

>>71816
Templars were the ultimate shit-tier, that's a fact.

They were fucking bastards, sodomites, failed every military action they tried, and at the end of their reign, they became merchants obsessed with earning gold.
They were such fucking cunts that they even refused to pay the ransom of Saint-Louis, King of France, who was the only King of Europe who still waged a crusade in the Holy Lands.

They deserved being put to the torch by Philippe le Bel.

Hospitallers are cool though.

>>71816
>>Ultimate shit tier
>Teutonic Order
butthurt Pole detected

>>71816
>>Ultimate shit tier
>Teutonic Order
Seriously? They managed to establish their own empire in Europe, quite impressive in my opinion. Also the richest order +bonus for sexiest armours.

>>71745
Western Europe was of very little importance to Rome apart from parts of Spain which were heavily urbanised or gold rich, and parts of Gaul near the frontier and the main roads. Britain wasn't very important at all and Italy less so as time marched on. The most important parts of the Roman world were western Anatolia and Constantinople, the province of Africa, Egypt and Syria.

Amount of fertile land = wealth/importance
Follow the crops

>>71799
Following up. The reason more amphitheatres have been excavated from western Europe is because modern day western Europe is rich as fuck and can afford to generously provide for museums and universities to dig shit up. Places like Libya and Iraq, despite sitting on a goldmine of antiquities have barely unearthed many of their greatest treasures.

>>71725
In the Cold War, it was worth the anti-American sentiment in the region, as the Soviet Union was always the bigger problem. Now, we're still feeling the long term repercussions. Ultimately, no, we didn't really have a choice when the USSR did the same thing elsewhere.

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>>71725

>Specifically was it a mistake to support many third world dictators who would fight "Communism" and ally with the United States at the expense of causing many populations to resent the United States

You have to ask two questions:
1. To what extent are you willing to go to fight Communism?

JFK and Reagan were willing to watch the world burn in a end-game nuclear exchange. That's obviously excessive and self-defeating.
If, like the second of the men mentioned above, you're willing to train and fund death squads to kill nuns and priests preaching liberation theology in El Salvador, fine, that's far less excessive. But I'm still inclined to question your moral fiber.

2. To what extent was the US's efforts in the Cold War related to fighting Communism?

The War on Indochina is a clear case of that in fact not being the case. The declared intentions (internally, at least) were to stamp down the Third-World nationalist movements which were becoming a danger to the economic privileges of the West. Kissinger, who was the mastermind behind much of the destruction taking place in that part of the world, was no ideologue. He didn't fear Communism per-se, he feared whatever threatened the American hegemony to which he was wedded.
If you are to consider that, you may well come to the conclusion the "Red Threat" had very little to do with the White House's power plays.

>>72233
Yeah, I guess a part of my question was related to >>72523 where it wasn't always about fighting communist as it was about keeping economic privileges for the United States.

>>72523
Do you think the US foriegn policy has cost or helped the United States economy in the long run.

One of my personal favorite Marian hymns:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXLV2Hbhmuw

Who /St. Louis de Montfort/ here? True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin is a life changing book.

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>>71658
Can we post good ones or just Orthodox art?

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>>71724
Nice

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>>72049
You can post whatever you want. I'm Orthodox, but the art I posted in the OP isn't. The Orthodox Church prohibits realism in art as its modernist (not in art in general, I just mean in Church sponsored art and art used for religious devotion at home).

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>>71600
>Why is Swiss military /his/tory so based ?

It is?

>>71600
No fear of death judging by their fighting style between 1400 and 1800.

>>71736
>their fighting style between 1400 and 1800

Their military history ended in 1515 though

>>71589
It's probably because:
1. The importance of Greece (and Rome, who highly prized Greek philosophy etc) in Western civilisation, and
2. There's far more written evidence about Greek mythology than other European pantheons

>>71589
It's the one with the most documented material

>>71589
Greeks identified constellations with their gods.

>>71583
Ever heard of Byzance?

They were the Byzantine Empire.

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>>71583
They were busy being Roman.