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>>3392799
That was Atilla the Hun.

>>3392803
Fug I'm a fool

>>3392815
And it wasn't choking, he died of a nosebleed after wrestling with the bros

>>3392783
Nope. I don't want it to do to the Second Punic War what 300 did to the Greco-Persian wars in popular culture.

>>3393013
300's (graphic novel) been bastardized and misunderstood. The sensational stuff was clearly meant to be the embellishments of the Greek narrator. The sheer number of people who don't seem to get this really rustles my jimmies.

>>3392783
Fuck Lindybeige.

>>3392772
have you tried reading an actual book?

>>3392797

you know you can do both right

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>>3392705
The lesson is: kill all unreliable faggots

>dramatic civil and cultural downfall
No, just a return to the norm

>>3392675
at least they had the decency to understand when they had to fuck off
and some romans too did that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism

>>3392675
Suicide is cowardly

Well at least Nobunaga himself was less autistic about traditions and triggered half the country.
Frequently literally.

>have a boat
>it isn't even that good because of being a pre-jutland design that was hastily uparmored during construction
>it somehow becomes a national icon
>constantly sail her around trying to convince the world that you're still the strongest navy in the world
>years go by, the boat gets older and older
>she could use a pretty major refit
>nope, can't do, we need her showing the flag here and there and ferry vips
>her armor isn't capable of handling modern threats and her max speed has dropped 3 knots from when she was commissioned
>shit hits the fan, krauts start another chimpout
>no time to refit her now
>she spends first year by doing very little outside of shelling surrendered frog ships
>krauts send one of their battleships to raid shit
>sent to intercept
>know that her deck armor can't handle large caliber hits
>have another ship with you that is both armored to with stand such hits and is about as fast as hood is with her worn out machinery
>maybe her should sail first and hopefully take most of the german fire?
>nope, muh pride of the royal navy
>krauts open fire
>it goes through the deck and blow whole ship up
>spend rest of the eternity pretending that bismarck was some unholy supership that had no equals in the world instead of overengineered piece of shit whose design was downright archaic when compared to other ships launched around that era

>>3392716
eternal anglo in a nutshell
Bismarck was garbage and the fact that it destroys a WW1 Battlecruiser doesn't impress me one bit

>>3392556
If you mean the napoleonic wars in general, there's plenty of decent to exceptional naval fiction around.
Exceptional would be the Aubrey-Maturin series, which is a must read regardless of tastes.
Decent would be Lord Ramage, Bolitho and Hornblower.
The only movies I know are Master & Commander, which is an Aubrey-Maturin pseudo-adaptation, and The Duelists.

>>3392581
I should have made the thread more about the Napoleonic Wars, but I really wanted to find some stuff about the Peninsular specifically.

>>3392589
I'm pretty sure you're shit out of luck then. Unless you're fine with biogrphies, I read Holmes' Iron Duke and it was nice.
Sadly in spite of the amount of attention it gets due to Sharpe, the Peninsular campaign was pretty much a sideshow.

John D. Ruddy is the shit though.

Looks fake

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>American education

>>3392490
Note that French MENA is the only one that is stable and sucessful while British MENA is just a bunch of failed state

>inb4 Lebanon
Lebanon was doing fine, its only bad point is being so close of shitholes like Israel and Jordan, so their shit spill on it

>inb4 Syria
Anglos destabilized it by destroying Iraq and financing a fake rebellion in Syria

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>>3392490
Algeria and Tunisia were turned from a worthless desert into a decent place with cities akin to those in France
Pic related, Algiers in 1940
Very much like Paris

Of course by now, so many time has passed since they rejected their French benefactors that they're basically the average arabic shithole again

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>>3393055
The same city nowdays

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I love have the foundational text of western society is a cuckold story within a cuckold story

really makes you think

Agamemnon. As Wanax, he does not have the right to demand other kings' booty. He's not an absolute monarch, just a leader of the confederated armies of the greeks.

Achilles had every right to leave if he wanted to.

>>3392443
Agamemnon clearly was the one who initially wronged Achilles as he publicly shamed him by taking his prize/woman. But Achilles was also wrong by being stubborn and declining all the conciliatory efforts of Agamemnon.

>>3392406
>Germans
They were Scandis and Slavs.

>>3392414

The Ostrogoths were the ones that actually conquered Rome, and they were Germanic, so it is without question that Germanics were able to overcome the greatest of all empires.

>>3392372
good thread friend

>>3392372

thanks for sharing ebin instagram memes, but i think it is late now, and you shouldn't be up this late or else you won't be able to focus on school

>>3392372
thanks op

>>3392358
Really made me think.

>>3392358
Plantation = Gulag
Now I'm getting it

>eyo nigger I'll let you be the big boy in town and feed you if you make sure no one starts trouble

>>3392229
>92229
nice pali

I've learned that it wasn't that common though, but it is true.

>>3392229
Mycenans used South Italians for that role

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>>3392065

>>3392065
exist in a place no one wanted. why do you think past empires there have been so large as well. its just the terrain not the people.

>>3392065
for Siberia and most of Central Asia, there weren't very many people living there in the first place, let alone any governments with structures sound enough to raise armies that could challenge Russia. After the Mongols collapsed, all the land in North Asia was left to local warlords who couldn't hold a candle to any major power who decided to move in.

As for the advancing into Eastern Europe, raw manpower mostly, Russia has such a massive population pool to draw soldiers from that they could simply outlast any European power in a war of attrition. Many of Russia's opponents in the early modern era (Sweden, France, The Ottomans, etc) would simply be driven to exhaustion before any meaningful gains could be made against Russia.

This also put Russia in a diplomatically advantageous position due to their sheer strength in soldiers, with other Continental powers seeing more to gain in allying Russia rather than directly challenging them, which made these allies less able to contest Russian gains such as the carving up of Poland-Lithuania.