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What color were they?

Does calling my cats Tigris and Euph make me an arse?

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Assyrians were cool

inb4 hordes of byzantineboos and GROSSGERMANIUMS

Poor man's Rome
And Rome was far from the greatest.

Not even the greatest muslin empire

>>8527
quick answer: yes, it is desu

>>8527

Not really.

I don't feel like typing it all out, but there is a risk of becoming a Marquis de Sade if you abandon the ethics in favour of some Post-Modern nonsense like Post-Anarchism or Nietzsche's transvaluation of ideals. This risk increases if you believe cessation of bodily processes ends rebirth.

In hindsight, I'd argue Schopenhauer was a pretty good Western Dharmic practitioner.

>>8527
generally but ancient greek philosophy is applicable to day-to-day life and that is definitely western but that's because the ancient greek idea of philosophy was 'how do you best live your life' instead of logic-chopping analytical bullshit that began in the enlightenment.

>>8449
There really is now need at this point until a war comes along when satellites are targeted. But in that case they would probably be defended by drones and are most likely more vulnerable to cyberfare anyways.

If I recall correctly the original vietnam F-4s didn't have machine guns as it was the age of the missle, but the missles they had were horrible.

Technological progress doesn't work like a tech tree in video games.

There simply hasn't really been any major-scale wars that require money and/or manpower to be put into military technologies. the 50's, korean war, the 60's and 70's, vietnam and bush war, etc it goes on

Not to mention that the cold war put the two largest superpowers in the world in a technological war against each other. Without the competition, why bother?

Interesting point. It puzzles me that I can't even think of a reasonable definition for what is art.
However, for the Beethoven vs. the kid, I suppose music needs harmony.
If I'm not mistaken, some musicians attempted to make music without harmony in the early 20th century, but everybody gave up because they couldn't listen to it

>>9803
>I suppose music needs harmony
See, this causes all sorts of problems though.
Like, in terms of just music you've got all sorts of improvisational genres, atonal music, John Cage's shenanigans, and so on.
For the rest of art, this would mean that there's some kind of ruleset an art form must abide by in order to be art, limiting experimentation and the like.

I mean, maybe that's the case, but it doesn't sit right with me.

>>8446
experimental works are only seen as valuable now because we are in a post-modern age of art. before it was seen as degenerate, but now with the world changing so fast, at least some experimentation in art gives it credence. What is considered art is a reflection of the time from which it comes.

>>8421
Probably would be shortly defeated because he would be facing the only other as massively centralized empire of the world in their home turf, while months away from their home with a possibly hostile Iranian population on his back fucking with their supply lines.

>>8421
Better question would be who would win between a Roman Legion or one of the armies of the various Chinese dynasties.
Asking who would win invasion wise is retarded either way because the geography puts neither close for a practical war.

how difficult is to understand once for all:
holding a huge empire like Rome was not possible with ancient infrstructures.

It's not just pure hedonism, prior to what some people think. There's actually a lot of thought behind it. It's also not entirely antithetical to Stoicism. Both philosophies have similar views on death for example.

>>>/lit/

>>8416
I agree with a lot of what he had to say. Modern philosophy will never agree on his shit or anything for that matter because "le what if you take what he's saying to it's logical end?" crap.

>>8359
It was a serious blunder, that would set them up for centuries of barbarian dickings in the future.

>>8359
There's also Crassus losing 34-40,000 men against the Persian-Parthian army under Surena who numbered made a quarter of their own troops at Carrahe.

They have fought for it and won

France (diplomacy) and Czechoslovakia (arms shipments and training) helped

Bad UK policies, people wanting to screw the UK, nazi germany and those jew refugee ships sinking made the world few bad for the jews.

Also, >>8396, Zionists were much more competent at terrorism than Muslims.

>>8558
Not only at terrorism

Modern Arab armies are useless for some reason

Ever since racial theory was thrown out of the window it became hard to make a good point for people staying under the rule of some foreigner group.

It would just keep on hogging resources while the population would be as unwilling as ever.

>>8235
I read a book on the African decolonisation processes a few months ago. It really did seem that it was just the Africans' anger at the idea of a slow orderly withdrawal which fucked them in the end and left them in the hands of corrupt dictators in artificial countries.

>>8235
Why dont we ask rhodesia?

>>8224
No. Imperial Japan knew that their only strategy was to bleed the US so badly in initial engagements (a single decisive engagement, they hoped) that it would make peace.

>>8271
This. By 1942 they were already hopelessly overstretched.

>>8271
>such obsession with a single decisive engagement
Well, one can't blame them since that's how they won the Russo-Japanese War.

>>8109

Almost all of them really.

>>8155
This

We should do the opposite. Which leaders would actually be proud of the current state of their nations?

After all the bullshit conspiracy theory and doomsday programs, I don't think so

It's dead Jim.
One day I looked at their program, and they had 1 (one) show about history.

>PAWN STARS
>ALIENS
>lumberjacks

its beyond saving

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Who is it /his/?

Italy isn't nearly as powerful or relevant as Germany.

Focused too much on irrelevant shitholes like Africa.

>>7873

Italians had a good navy in WWII

Italy lacks German industry