What happened?
While India and Pakistan hate and hated each other, and important violence followed the partition, it seems like in general the boundaries between both states (and later Bangladesh) were pretty much clear. Except in this area.
Why Kashmir? And what's China doing there? What was going on Kashmir before the partition, during British rule and previous eras? Can it explain this conflict?
I know there's at least a couple of Indians here and that this is a sensitive affair. Please keep it civil, I know the conflict continues today but...
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>>1316442
Before 1947 Jammu and Kashmir were part of a princely state, which in turn was a British vassal. The rulers of the princely state of Kashmir were Hindus, whereas the plebs were Muslims. When the princely states were forced to choose on either joining Pakistan or India after independence, the ruler of Kashmir decided to cede his state to India, contrary to the wishes of the Muslim population. This eventually lead to a conflict between India and Pakistan, which culminated in the 1947 and 1965 wars. China who were...
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>>1316882
How do the Chinese justify those and other territorial claims they have on India?
Also, why did the British allowed the prince to decide when they knew how much problems would cause? What about a third way with an independent Kashmir? It was an option for the princely states iirc.
>>1317173
With the exception of the Spratlys and all those Island Squabbles, the Chinese justify all continental Asian territorial disputes based on the last dynasty's- the Qingz- Borders
>early 14th century
>Europe is spiritually united under the twin hegemony of France and the Church
>chivalry, courtesy, prosperity: the height of civilisation
>Gothic architecture
>the beginnings of a scientific revolution at the universities of Paris and Oxford
>the beginnings of an artistic renaissance at Avignon
but then
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good thread
The plague empowered the peasants that survived and made way for a strong middleclass in some parts of europe.
At least something.
>>1316369
Actually Italy and the HRE went downward after the Black Death while Western Europe surged ahead and experienced real wages people wouldn't have again until the Industrial revolution.
Compare say Italy and the Dutch
/pol/kiddies always get mad when they get told that Communism has never been tried because they have no counter argument to it. But they still refuse to accept it.
So in what way have any of the "Communist" states of the past 100 years been Communist?
It was tried, a lot of times, poorly.
t. socialist.
>>1315047
Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge.
If the USSR wasn't actually communist why is it so jerked off over by all you edgy commie kids?
Seems like the same exact deal with neonazis who wank off to the holocaust then claim it never happened. Can't have it both ways.
What the FUCK was his problem?
>>1323056
nip fucking shits
>>1323056
Nuke everybody before everybody else got nukes was a sound plan. Had Truman listened to him we'd live in a world with a united Korean peninsula and a united democratic China by now.
>>1323064
fucking commie spies ruined our chance at pax americana
those faggots deserved to be hanged.
Why do barbarian conquerors always turn into sissies after subduing more civilized people?
>>1323037
Jews.
They become infatuated with luxuries and decadence, then quickly abandon the harsh lifestyle they lived that resulted in them being barbarian conquerors in the first place
>>1323037
Because the real conquerors eventually won
Why would intelligent organisms exist in a godless universe? Why doesn't the universe just "exist" without humans. It's not like the universe has feelings, it has no real need for people.
>>1322796
>It's not like the universe has feelings,
What are you? Created from the matter inside the universe complete with feelings.
You are literally made from the same things which the universe is made up of. You are the universe.
Intelligence is a mistake and can be detrimental to a species and it's overall survival. Intelligence is a mistake, stop thinking you are so great because you are 'smart'. We are broken.
>>1322796
Why focus on humans? Why doesn't your query involve any other animal?
>>1322796
What? You're not really confused about this are you?
They exist because they're a consequence of how all the physical forces and matter and whatnot in the universe ended up interacting together, they just naturally arose like anything else.
Why would the universe not having emotional needs have anything to do with it?
Voting this autistic sperglord for most retarded ruler of any country literally ever
>was literally so retarded he thought proletariat was happy and satisfied with the government
>shot peaceful protesters cause lmao fuck off petition faggots (bloody sunday)
>shot like thousands of kikes (pogroms)
>shot japs (Russo-Jap war)
>shot any member of political opposition
>shot innocent people...
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>turned a cult into a state religion
>cult is now massive
>>1322604
>shot peaceful protesters cause lmao fuck off petition faggots (bloody sunday)
He didn't do that. He didn't even know about the protestors until several hours after the soldiers shot and killed them because he was hundreds of miles away.
>>1322604
Literally none of that is true
Nicky might get crowned as King Cuck, though
Not only was it a minor regional conflict against a small group of insurgents but the amount of troops that was decoted to it were only ewual to half the active US military at the time.
>decoted to only ewual
>>1322517
Gotta serve Uncle Sam. They saw communism, the ideology of the Soviet Union and PRC China, as a threat to National Security. They weren't necessarily wrong.
>>1322524
>what is typing on a phone
You could just downvote and move along.
How come Native American names get translated when most names from various non-European cultures either get transliterated or rendered phonetically?
>>1322401
I am sure that would depend entirely upon the fact that Americans show no remorse for their actions.
I went to school with a descendant of this guy.
He had a setup with loads of miniatures of the battle. It was pretty autistic but also kind of cool.
>>1322401
They're too hard for English speakers to pronounce. For an extreme example, [xɬpʼχʷɬtʰɬpʰɬɬs] is a valid word in Nuxalk, spoken in British Columbia.
How come so after ~1400 Europe managed to overwhelmingly outclass all the rest of the world in every relevant category? It's seems like all these "great" civilizations like Islam, India, China just stuck in Middle Ages for 500 years, and if there were any developements or improvements they all just came from Europe/the US. I know things are changing now but I'm talking about period until about the end of WWII. Compare quality of Western art to Chinese or something. Hell, even still in the Middle Ages, Gothic architecture was simply light years ahead of everything...
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>>1322327
The sense conveyed is often more important than the thing itself. One is an attempt at dominating nature while the other blends with it and expressed its qualities more subtly.
>>1322348
nice excuse for undevelopement
>>1322327
>1400
When did Europeans find the New World?
When did the mongols fuck up Asia?
Explain gnosticism to me
>>1322107
>there are two gods, one good, one evil
>there are two main aspects of the world, the material and the spiritual
>the spiritual was created by the good god, therefore, it's good
>the material was created by the evil god, so everything connected to matter, human bodies etc. is inherently sinful
>the goal of the religion is to get away from this flawed material...
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Solution to problem of evil is that God in fact pretty evil or maybe just powerless to stop evil. Actually there are two Gods, one is evil and the other is powerless. Seems logical to me.
>>1322170
I thought it was one is ignorant and the other can't help us directly without killing us, so he sent a messenger.
You guys are smart.
Please rank these people from most evil to least evil. You don't have to do all 15, you can do 5. But please explain your reasons.
>>1322065
>Implying good and evil exists
>Implying the world is black and white
Discuss
>>1322143
>Hitler at high tier and Stalin at low tier
>Please tell me you are joking Please tell me you are joking Please tell me you are joking Please tell me you are joking Please tell me you are joking Please tell me you are joking Please tell me you are joking Please tell me you are joking Please tell me you are joking
Post stuff that triggers you
>unironically using terms like "Dark Ages"
>anachronisms like knights in full armor being a stereotypical representation of the whole medieval period
>categorizing historical events/persons as "good" and "evil"
>>1321899
>communism has never been tried
>>1321899
>>categorizing historical events/persons as "good" and "evil"
What's wrong about that? There are reasonable working definitions of good and evil in society, why should they not apply to history?
>>1321917
protip: there aren't
How did France's population go from being more than 4 times bigger than England's in the late Middle Ages, to being of comparative sizes today?
Especially knowing that England had more people immigrating from it to other parts of the New World than France did.
>>1321856
It's not entirely clear. Local populations fluctuate for a variety of reasons. The easiest answer is that economic prosperity leads to population growth, and wars fought on home territory lead to population decline.
>>1321856
Being assravaged by 2 world wars in recent history didnt help
>one every 2 men had a rifle
>the only strategy is charging machine guns because Slavs are retards
>only won against superior equipped and trained Germans because muh winter
>people shill them as heroes
lmao if not the winter Germans would stomp them ;)
sent ;)
I know this is a meme thread but there are an annoying number of people who unironically believe this.
So... Why Germans doesn't waited before winter ended for 9 month without that shit?