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If First Dacian War was Rome's Operation Desert Storm, what was Rome's Operation Iraqi Freedom?

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Ok, /his/, I can't sleep. I need your help. I'm thinking about the difference between identity and individuation, and I need to get my thoughts out before I explode. Be aware that this is my six in the morning with no sleep thoughts, and may make no sense at all, or be blatantly obvious. Imagine two identical objects, that share every possible trait. Now, these objects share an identity, or they wouldn't be identical. Each object, however, can be thought of distinct from the other. Each object cannot be thought of distinctly from itself. So, each object must be itself, but not the other, even though they share an identity. So, what does it mean for something to be itself? It does not mean that it has its identity. It must mean that it has its own individuation. I take this to mean that it can be thought of as itself without contradiction, and cannot be thought of as not itself without contradiction. It can be thought of as distinct, but not as one and the same as another object. Object one is object one and not object two. So, an object can share an identity and not an individuation, it can have all the same traits as another object and still be itself and not the other object. Can an object lose it's identity, or change it, and have its individuation intact? Can an object change it's traits and still be itself? Intuition seems to suggest it, and while that's no indication of truth, it should be observed, nonetheless. If you remove a branch from a tree, the tree loses a trait and it's identity changes, but it still seems to remain the tree, and the same tree. If you chip off flakes from a rock, the rock seems to remain the rock, while the flake does not seem to remain the rock. The rock seems to have individuation intact, even though its identity has changed. What if we were to imagine a rock broken perfectly in half? Which half is the rock? (Cont.)

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>putting down a flag and coloring the map means you 'own' the land
>steals tons and tons of gold and silver (not to mention cash crops) but still manages to have a failed economy
during the Victorian period, when even Belgium became a colonial power Spain managed to> consistently loose colonial possessions
>now it's a Greece tier shithole

How the hell do you go from having everything to being the laughing stock of the continent? What went wrong?

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You Wehrboos think, what would a postwar Luftwaffe have looked like if the Krauts won the war? Would they have focused on antipodean suborbital bombers or end up with further rocketry development for nuclear delivery? Would they have concentrated on short-ranged interceptors and ground attack aircraft for frontal aviation like the USSR did or would they have been more like the US in orienting entirely around strategic aviation?

Assume Krauts and USA are the main superpowers, UK is unoccupied and is an American Cuba in Europe, Krauts are unchallenged on the continent but still have to spend the majority of their budget on ground forces like the Soviets had to in our Cold War due to having to simultaneously occupy Europe and fight guerillas in the East

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Why were the russians not forced to pay reparations for nuking Europe without a declaration of war?

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well in the past years FYROM and HELLAS had a
<battle> for the name of Macedonia.As it turned out with recent excavations Macedonia is probably Hellenic.Even the name is hellenic { MAcedonia=Μαkεδονων ΝΙkη macedonians victory}.The president of FYROM decided to change the name to Republic of Vardaska or republic of Pellagonia. So dispute solved

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If the aboriginal peoples of Australia had died due to some plague or some other natural disaster before the arrival of white men in the 18th Century such that they were effectively extinct, would anthropologists who discovered their bones and remains consider them to be homo sapiens or would they have assumed them to be some distinct closely-related species?

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What is the best Greek culture /his/?

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ITT: people who tried so hard
And got so far

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historically have landlocked countries always done worse than ones with coastline

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I recall a thread or two about her back when this board was new, and people were recommending books. I want to read a biography about her, but I have no idea which book to buy.

So, Joan of Arc thread/book suggestion thread.

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who had better music ?

Soviet Union or maoist china ?

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Why havn't there been any great ath*ist civilization? The pinnicle of ath*ism was the Soviet Union and today it's North Korea, and those are Dark Age tier. Is ath*ism poison to civilization?