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How does salvaging in modern wars work? You're already killing each other so stealing and using your enemies' equipment shouldn't be surprising but how about when the war's over? Do you get to keep the spoils? It might not matter for smaller things such as guns and ammo but how large can it get before the other side tries to negotiate to get it back?
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>>1362974
AFAIK Israel has converted a whole bunch of captured vehicles and re-purposed them for their own use. A genius move if you ask me, your basically getting some of the cost of the war back. This is one of them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDF_Achzarit
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You get to keep what ever is in your borders.

Now to make this /his/ related.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swan_Project#Dispute

If you salvage anything valuable enough. You will get screwed these days.
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>>1363001
They also converted a lot of T-55 and T-62s to use the 105mm L7 gun, which they then used in reserve/second line units and exported after taking them out of service.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36651048

>fall for the colonialism meme
>colonies never turn a profit and get seized after WWI
>fall for the hydrogen meme
>zeppelins catch fire during bombing raids
>except there was actually non-flammable helium under Tanganyika the entire time

What do you think /his/? To what extent would access to these helium reserves have helped the German war effort?
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None whatsoever. They couldn't get shit out of africa.
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Mfw i realized the kaiser did nothing wrong
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>>1362985
Also the tech to find and extract reserves has massively changed over the years.

Do you ever consider the fact that there are young people right now with horrifying diseases that will kill them soon? Do you ever consider the fact that there are innocent people in solitary confinement right now?

That's just the start of the mindfuck. The crazier thing is: are we any luckier, really? We all take in a finite amount of pain, and then we all die. The numbers vary, but isn't the human condition fundamentally inhuman?
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>>1362934
>isn't the human condition fundamentally inhuman?
go back to facebook posting. I get you though, life is hard and our suffering is relative. In 500 years our lvies will seem like utter shit, full of physical suffering and invasive medical procedures and people getting old and sick and stuff.

Anyway, I just want to live on a deserted island with a a cool chick. Why couldnt life just grnt me that..
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Do your part to support the construction of the Machine. Contemporary suffering is irrelevant.
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>>1362945
I have a theory that the human mind gets used to anything (literally anything) within the span of about two years.

This means we are always looking back on the past and thinking how miserable they must have been. But there's no difference. Aren't we miserable a lot of the time? I know I am.

Happiness is what you get when something improves. Unhappiness is what you get when something gets worse.

Which means that if you have a lot of room for small improvements, you could have a bunch of happy years ahead of you.

Prison would be fine after about two years, as long as you could study something.

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What did he even want an impoverished mountainous shithole like Greece for anyway?
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Access to Europe
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who wouldn't want to teach a thing or two to those pompous greek assholes
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>>1362817
>impoverished
really m8?

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What are the 5 historical figures you admire the most?

>1: Napoleon
>2: Alexander Magnus
>3: Adolf Hitler
>4:Julius Caesar
>5: Attila the Hun

All of them were brilliant leaders and great conquerors
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>Solon
>Pericles
>William of Orange
>George Washington
>Thomas Jefferson
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1/louis IX
he is the great king by excellence

2/richelieu
great state man devoted to the mothrland who make france more great than ever

3/auguste
put a end at the roman republic degeneracy and allow rome to survive 500 years more

4/llycurge
egendary so...

5/mahomet
Transform a bunch of sandnigger totaly stupid, alcholic and without any discipline in a actual 1000 years old civilization who conquier more than half of the christian world
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1. Jesus

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Did the Renaissance of the 12th century really exist?
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>>1362536

You mean the translation movement ? Yes, they started translating allot of works from antiquity into Latin. There were some nice intellectual developments all around as well. Abelard's work comes to mind.
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>>1362555
there was meant to be a lot of science and prosperity too

but the plague ruined it all?
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>>1362536
Scientific and intellectual advances occurred but in isolation. It wasnt til the printing press started pumping out 20 million books that all of Europe started to advance out of the darkness.

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>Celtic tactics
Barbarians, when will they learn?
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>tacitus claims
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>>1362391
Tacitus was a total celtboo, he was probably being generous
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>>1362402
This, Tacitus was the ancient version of the nu male that posts stuff like "ugh white people"

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Would the world wars been prevented if france was partitioned after the franco-prussian war?
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>>1362336
France doesn't exist.
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>>1362367
It truly is paristan and its flemish, iberian, aquitane, and german colonies
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I do pretty seriously think we would have at least had a much better world if someone had told Wilhelm the second to shut up and just focus in his own Country instead of building the navy.

>>1362367
That map is actually a pretty good example on why Race is based on nothing else than social values rather than natural reality.

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If the Winged Hussars were so great, why did no one try to imitate them?
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>>1362322
Imitate them at what?
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>>1362352
He surely means try to make identical units
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I think it's pretty cringy desu.

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Why do some claim that philosophical writing should be clear?
In mathematics a proof is judged to be correct according to the axioms of the mathematical systmes which it pressuposes. i.e. Mathematical systems tell the user what operations and what sequences of operations are correct or true so a sequence of claims and arguments and operatiosn can be judged to be true or false without doubt after a proper analysis.

But in many philosophical arguments and writings the goal is often to make the reader think of a completely new idea or even a new mode of thinking.
Lets say that in the future we will have a new mode of thinking and new concepts.
How do we get from not having them to having them? It starts with intuitions which try to convey something, a thought, a concept a way of thinking, that is not available yet. that readers do not know about and cannot fathom.
In philosophical writings new modes of thinking and percieving reality can be conveyed through means that can only be understood as appropriate once you try to understand them intuitivly. You start reading omething and it seems unclear, ill defined aligorical, obfuscating but, if you read on, finish reading and try to make sense of it, through this process you suddenly become aware of a new mode of thinking and after that, in retrospect you see how what you read was not dumb or obfuscating but nesseecary to make you understand this new mode of thinking.
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>>1362236
>Bearded Greek heads
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>>1362236
So strange sentences, strange word uses, strange grammer, strange combinations of arguments can still be enlightning.
Perhaps to make us understand certain new ideas and ways of thought the use of never before seen sentence structures and combinations of arguments is required.

Perhaps things we take for granted, even the most basic things like "fallacies" can be challanged but to make a person think about challnaging them a text has to do it so that when a person reads it and gives it the benefit of the doubt he is then able to challange some basic understanding he has and suddenly become aware of how it can be thought about differently.
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Did you ever achieve like to be if it was seriously and over with?

>"fixed fortifications are stupid lol"
>*gets stuck at Metz for 3 months*
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>>1362189
>Looks like Trump

What the fuck, I hate Montgomery now
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>>1362213
>Montgomery
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>>1362358
I know right. That's clearly Omar Bradley.

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Is there any possibility we will see a widespread return to Monarchy, /his/? Despotism seems to be an inherent part of society, and we've seen authoritarian governments assume Monarch-like powers in the past century or so.

I don't think it is likely, nor do I desire it. The thought just crossed my mind today.
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>another episode of monarchist authoritarianism being equated with modernist totalatirainism
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>>1362182
Yeah, you've got me there. I suppose I didn't think the analogy through.
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>>1362170
>there's a complete absolute monarch'
>this somehow changes that you are a poorfag studying for a job
The worst monarch is better than the best (((democracy)))

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What is that you love the most in life? Something you would gladly die for...
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>>1362168
The opportunity to shitpost another day.
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I wouldn't gladly die for anything, because I'm scared of being dead.

Freedom to think and say whatever I want, and the freedom to disagree. Those are things I hold to be very important.
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>>1362168
the path of victory comes solely through jihad in the name of anime.

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Red pill me on Kant.
What are the core beliefs of his philosophy?
What should I read first to get into him?
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>>1362110
Boring autistic midget.
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>le priori
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bamp

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Are Latin and Ancient Greek studied anywhere in high school outside of Italy?
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In Spain we study them. Don't know about the rest of europe.
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Some schools have Latin here in the US. Most schools have Spanish, French, or German though
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In Greece&Cyprus

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