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Why did Churchill continually back Bomber Command's requests for more resources and greater strategic direction when he didn't think it would actually work, and had been saying so since the end of WW1?
>>1097333
"There are a lot of people who say that bombing can never win a war. Well my answer to that is that it has never been tried yet and we shall see. Germany, clinging ever more desperately to her widespread conquests and even foolishly seeking for more, will make a most interesting initial experiment."
t. Arthur Harris
>>1097436
And he was wrong. Bombing didn't win the war, certainly not in the way Harris thought of it, by smashing enough of the country that you'd have a "moral collapse" and an overthrow of the Nazi party from the German people.
What's more, you have Churchill pointing out that the German strat bombing didn't induce such panic in the British, and therefore there was little reason to assume it would work in reverse. That's hardly a ringing endorsement of Harris's strategy,...
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>>1097333
Prior to June 1941 it was essential for Churchill to maintain his Prime Ministership. Post June 1941 it was essential for Churchill to maintain Soviet friendship.
The cabinet also had an incredibly poor understanding of the importance of Coastal Command to the war.
Could you kill a man?
>>1097300
Who? Why? How? When? Where?
I'm very busy.
Probably if I had too. Its not that hard.
Id think about it every night though and worry about vengeance
>>1097300
ITT OP confuses could would should and ought.
What is it? Where did it begin? When did it begin? Would geographically western civilizations at times not be considered part of it? Why?
It began with the Mycenaeans conquering and sleeping with the Minoans.
>>1097338
Nah, it would begin with the conception of the Minoan civilisation, not the downfall.
>>1097377
>what have the minoans ever done for us!
I've seen a few documentaries and read a few wiki pages, and I really want to learn more about this strange island and its story.
What books do you recommend? I'm looking for more serious history books, not just stories.
I've become fascinated with the place, they had big statues, no trees, some form of a cool society with wierd rituals and traditions and what I currently understand as a proto-writing system.
tell me more /his/
>>1096714
read the bionicle comics
>>1096763
>tfw I just realized one of my fav toys actually references Rapa Nui
>>1096714
They cut the trees down, the island used to be covered in palms just like other Polynesian islands. A lot of what we know about them is sensationalised, the story of the Bird Man for example, sad truth is they were probably doing just fine before contact, they were genocided, then enslaved, then "civilised", genocided again, and finally abandonded back on their island, with little or nothing of their traditions still alive.
Ultimately, the big statues have been something of a salvation for them,...
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Which philosophical thought experiments annoy you the most?
For me it's "brain in a vat". Whenever someone brings up this argument, I cringe and know immediately that he's a superficial pseudo-intellectual.
Perspectivism
I'm not sure why that thought experiment bugs so many people. It's just underscoring a fundamental limitation of our perceptions.
>>1096743
because it is misused by fedoras who like to claim we are in the matrix
VE-Day is just around the corner, and I have just finished a related translation project I mostly did for myself, however I still think you guys might find it interesting. It's memoirs by Nikolai Nikulin, a person who had been through literal hell, through places that were horrible even by WW2 Eastern Front standards.
It's not really that unique since "a young boy straight out of school goes to war" scenario was quite common back then, of course, but Volkhov/Leningrad Front are criminally underrepresented, in my opinion, plus this book has of course...
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Woah, cool. Why did you take on this project?
>>1096374
Just boredom, really. One weekend in February was especially dull and I figured I might as well do something productive.
>>1096394
>I'm so bored I'll translate a Russian war memoir
well I can't fault you for that!
>>/sp/67390602
Can we all laugh at people who think they know history and believe shit like Big Man Theory and the idea the feminism brings down empires?
Roman empire collapsed from 99 problems but a feminism wasn't a one if them.
>>1096108
>Female emancipation
But seriously, yeah.
>>1096108
Can't fool me.
Alright lit, let's settle this.
Is it NEET-sche, or Nee-chee?
>>1096057
Neat-sche
>>1096057
nee-etch
>>1096063
Neat ;)
On another topic, what is your favourite Freddie quote?
Mine would probably be the one with the abyss, but also the one in the pic:
>What is there to my suffering, or my pity? Do I strive for happiness? I strive for my work (i.e. opus)!
>this happens
Wat do
>>1095790
>Poland mobilizes army quicker, it has 60 divisions ready to repel the Soviet attack
>Germany prepares for France as intended
>German-Polish European union, only two languages German and Polish
>>1095790
i always make sure i puppet or befriend poland when playing as germany in HOI3. them and holland.
it tickles my charlies to imagine panthers and pz iv's in polish markings storming across the steppe and u-boat pens in java hosting german wolf packs against the nips to the north and strayans to the south.
Just homologous to keikakku
Now we just need Franco to come into the war on our side and we'll be invincible
Fortress Europa Forever
![Hitler_Goebbels[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/5HFiNvC.jpg "Hitler_Goebbels[1].jpg")
Was Hitler just a figurehead with the real power and decision making resting with Goebbels? Basically was Hitler just a mouthpiece and Goebbels his brain?
>>1095778
What makes you think that?
Nah.
Göring was the mastermind behind it all
>Wake up tomorrow
>You're Hadrian
What do?
BUILD WALL
>>1095696
First post best post.
>>1095683
Launch expedition into West Africa.
Daily reminder that you are spooked as fuck if you think that ethnic heritage has more than a bare sliver of significance, or if you think that most nations/ ethnicities can be easily generalized to a set of common characteristics or ranked in terms of inherent superiority.
are you half blood, adopted and/or part of the ethnic minority?
The same is true about classes, marxcuck.
