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Who has the better end in regards to the remains of their colonial empires, France or UK?
>>433775
France also has a bunch of independent* countries in Africa.
*not at all
>>433790
True, but then UK also has the commonwealth. Lets leave this out for the sake of discussion. Lets just talk about the turf they officially hold.
What do you think it's like being some Iraqi living in baghad when it was bombed, or some north African being bombed because you live near ISIS? To have your family killed or whatever, plus being injured yourself, while westerners justify this and don't give a shit about the fact that you're collateral damage?
I'm not trying to be sentimental, I'm just like you guys, this is too remote and abstract for me to have a meaningful level of sympathy.
Do you think that there is mass societal delusion when we ignore our countries doing shit like...
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There is why karma is a silly concept.
Life is just a dice roll. You could have been born as one of the people you described.
>>433716
Most people living in ISIS controlled territories want to be there.
It's their slaves I feel bad for.
What you are imagining is happening in regime held cities. That is where the majority of civilians were being killed by foreign bombing campaigns, at least till the other night.
Now it's people who mostly support ISIS ideologically, and I do feel bad for those who don't wish to be there, and especially the slaves.
if we have agreed ISIS has to go then rather than a month long bombing...
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>>433716
>"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears...in...rain. Time to die."
![Roman.Britain.roads[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/2tsCIaC.jpg "Roman.Britain.roads[1].jpg")
When did the Britanni finally cast off the oppressive Roman yoke, and declare their freedom? How is this day celebrated by the English?
>>433601
St.Georges Day
>>433601
>cast off romans
>immediately conquered by saxons
>>433601
>Not sure if troll of just New Worlder
i.e. glorious Denmark
>>433441
Ridiculous. The monarch doesnt even give orders anymore, whats the point?
>>433441
Jealousy desu
>we will never have a King George
>inb4 thats unamerican and other plebeian hick opinions
>>433504
If the populace is favorable to it, why not? If there is enough dislike of a monarch the people will (depending on the affluence and level of development of the nation) either protest enough for a referendum or overthrow it in favor of some junta or some shit.
Was the Prussian military really super efficient and deadly or is it just memes? Were they drastically better than the other armies of their day?
>Where some states have an army, the Prussian Army has a state
>>433226
"The government of Napoleon III of France was undoubtedly startled by the Prussian victory over Austria, and urgently sought to reform their army to face the conflict with Prussia which seemed inevitable and imminent. Their senior officers entirely failed to grasp the methods of the Prussian General Staff. The Chief of Staff of the French Army, Marechal Edmond Leboeuf, fatuously stated in 1870 that the French Army was ready for war, "down to the last gaiter button." In the event, at the outset of the Franco-Prussian War, 462,000 German soldiers concentrated flawlessly on the French frontier while only 270,000 French soldiers could be moved to face them, the French army having lost 100,000 stragglers before a shot was fired through poor planning and administration. (Most of these were reservists who had not been able to join their units before the units were hastily dispatched to join the armies forming up near the frontier.)
During the war, there were again the inevitable mistakes due to the "fog of war", but German formations moved with a speed and precision which French staff officers, accustomed only to moving battalion-sized punitive columns, could not match. In the French (and British) armies of the time, there was an anti-intellectual prejudice in favour of brave and unimaginative regimental officers over intelligent and well-trained staff officers. The French Army paid dearly for this bias in 1870 and 1871".
>>433258
King of bantz.
>1066
>french vassal william successfully invades England
>english throne technically belongs to france
>fast forward a couple hundred years
>1337 hundred years war
>started because french thrones technically belong to England
how the hell did this happen
>>432826
It didn't technically belong to England, inheritance laws weren't handed to humans by the hand of god or anything.
That said those guys were not descended of William.
>>432826
William's house didn't hold the throne forever, and eventually, a family with a claim to the French throne came to power. That's more or less the basic jest of it, though England never belonged to France since William ruled it along with his holdings in Normandy as a separate domain from France, which is why England held land on the mainland.
I think Feudal law wasn't that simple. While the Duke of Normandy was a vassal to the King of France, the fact that the same person held Normandy and the English throne didn't make England a French possession.
And when William I died, he left Normandy to his son Robert and England to William II. Once his fourth son Henry I defeated Robert's invasion and conquered Normandy, defeating Robert and Louis VI of France, and the whole confusion of the Anarchy happened under Stephen and Matilda, things became a bit more unclear.
Anyway, the exact status of Normandy...
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OFFICIAL RELIGION/SPIRITUALITY/MYSTICISM RANKING THREAD
ABSOLUTE-TIER
Neo-Platonism
Sufism
Taoism
Zen Buddhism
Hermeticism
GOD-TIER
Christian Orthodox
Hinduism
Theravada Buddhism
Kabbalah
MID-TIER
Mahayana Buddhism
Vajrayana Buddhism
Confucianism
Judaism
SHIT-TIER
Islam
Catholicism
Protestantism
IDK ENOUGH ABOUT THEM-TIER
Jainism
Bahai Faith
Sikhism
Shinto
>Hermeticism not garbage tier
>ABSOLUTE-TIER
Neo-Platonism
LOOOONG LIVE PLOTINUS AND THE ONE !
>>431945
mah nigga
It's a shame that Tokugawa cut off the rest of the world. We could've had samurais all over the world and shit.
>we waz shogun and shieeeeet
>>431844
t. Alberto Barbo-sama
>>431873
Fucking hell
>tfw will never attend a medieval university
This is a microaggression.
>You will never be like Peter Abelard and seduce nobles' daughters under the guise of being their teacher
Why bother living?
>>431666
I don't think it's worth getting my genitals smashed with a hammer.
>>431198
>I must unite the Japanese people under one REAL flag
>>431198
Misunderstood? From what I understand the guy was willing to cooperate with germans and italians if it meant stopping the partisans,instead of fighting the enemy with them, and the Chetniks generally did nothing most of the war a part from doing some ethnic cleansing to create a great serbia in yugoslav territory.
>>431248
Faget
Was he innocent? Was he guilty?
Why did the Allies let him go?
Discuss, /his/.
Some of his relatives were legit war criminals who escaped justice.
Hirohito himself, I doubt it.
>>431184
It's not good business to dispose of the leader, one that the people still held in high regard, of a country you're about to occupy and basically tell, "You're doing this because we aren't coming back over here again to deal with you."
Plus, there was always the threat of "If we get rid of him, those fucking Communists might set up shop."
>>431184
No
Probably
Because politics of keeping Japan under heel post occupation
"We were ordered to go die for victory. . . . Who gave the orders for that stupid war? The closer you get to the emperor, the fuzzier everything gets."
-Saburo Sakai, Japanese fighter ace
why havn't you accepted the philosophical position most compatible with science? Positivism
this meme again
Because useful =/= true.
Every thread on this board is shitty trolling desu senpai
Johann Georg Elser (4 January 1903 – 9 April 1945) was a German worker who planned and carried out an elaborate assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler and other high-ranking Nazi leaders on 8 November 1939 at the Bürgerbräukeller in Munich. A time bomb that Elser constructed and placed near the speaking platform failed to kill Hitler but killed eight people and injured over sixty-two others. This what happened in reality, but what if the bomb managed to kill Hitler on the 8 of november. What happens next?
>>430808
Germany falls into an indecisive shitheap and loses the war without nearly as many gains.
>>430808
I remember this was included in the History Channel documentary about all the attempts on Hitler's life. It was released right before/after Valkyrie. By shear luck, Hitler made it out of there just before it went off. I mean just before it went off.
What happens next? Well, remember, Hitler didn't designate a successor until 1941 (Goering). So you would have had von Papen (Vice-Chancellor), von Ribbentrop, Frick, Keitel, Goering, and Himmler probably all trying to take over.
Who wins? I'd...
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>>431260
The fact that Beria managed to not take over the USSR seems to show that merely controlling the major paramilitary body in a country wasnt a garuntee
How did such a tiny Island forge the biggest empire the world has ever known? Tell me the tale of how the British Empire came to be
They perfected their methodology on the Irish people before exporting it.
>>430743
Ships, being the first country to industrialise, and the desire to make money
>tiny island
Why do people assume more land = most powerful? It's so much more complicated than that.
Hi people. I have a question. What do you think about this case?
Romanov family. The legend of Anastasia.
I know that she's dead, but... What do you think? The legend is true or false?
The whole family got shot by mosins multiple times. All very dead.
She is kill but one of their dogs survived
>the monsters who did this were never punished
Is there truly no justice?
