Can anyone here recommend me a decent entry level book about Yugoslavia and its history (however far back you choose to define it)?
I don't know very much about it, but it seems like a really fascinating area.
Yugoslav General I guess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eB9WgR_N4h4&oref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DeB9WgR_N4h4&has_verified=1
>>1271963
You'll have to search for local,former Yugoslav sources if you want to delve deeper into that topic,Westerners(especially the Germans,the British and the Americans) are usually trying their best to passively present Yugoslavia as yet another,failed,insignificant and totalitarian soviet-puppet of a country that only at succeeded causing the death of 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Danube Germans and Italians and causing her untimely dissolution "all by herself".And of course,Tito was a murderous genocidal,vile,patriarchal,womanizing hypocrite of a Bolshevik,a vampire count and also,a hog farmer of a leader.
The Balkans by Misha Glenny is a possibility.
Is the IJN of WW2 the most overrated navy in history?
>1st major naval engagement
>strategic loss
>2nd major naval engagement
>lose the entire carrier fleet
Mind you, the IJN had numerical superiority in all battles and overall until 1943.
>>1271872
The ships were pretty good, the tactics and planning not so much, not to mention the americans partially decrypted their code rather early in the war
All of the IJA was almost as bad as the Italian Royal Army.
>>1271891
That's nice, but I don't think the IJA qualifies as the most overrated navy.
How was Aristotle not based as fuck?
Please tell me how, all shitposting welcome.
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
"The worst form of inequality is to try and make inequal things equal"
"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society"
Historically what kind of feathers would have been used for helmet decoration? Did they have ostrich farms? Were things like scarves and feathers purely for show or did they have any significance?
>>1271683
I am unsure but I reckon it's just for show, I mean it looks hella fancy. And they either had farms or like places where they had ostriches, peacocks, pheasants or whatever feather they fancied. Doubt they ran out in the woods, tackled the first good bird and ripped a few feathers off.
Ostriches were common game in certain parts of africa and their plumes were traded via a long chain of middlemen, reaching civilization at the port of Aden where the unusual objects were distributed throughout the Islamic world, eventually being found by crusaders in the Levant who proudly displayed them as mementos of their adventures, soon it became a symbol of valor and their value increased promoting an expansion of the trade.
>>1271683
Ostrich feathers were the symbol of the Princes of Wales from the Black Prince onwards. They were a symbol and badge of the house of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses as well.
Why are white people called white when their skin color is closer to pink and why are black people called black when their skin tone is brown?
This is literally like a question you ask your Dad when you're four years old.
>>>/int/
There's a containment board for this shitposting
>>1271638
Quite a lot of Africans actually are black/blue though.
If Italy hadn't backed out of the Triple Alliance when shit hit the fan mid-1914, how much differently would WWI have gone?
For instance, I've seen online folks suggest that Cadorna almost sent the 3rd Army north to Germany on August 2nd (apparently in line with the military's pre-existing war plans within the Triple Alliance) only to be told at the last second by the government to not do so, with them declaring neutrality soon after. If that army is sent, could that extra manpower help fill the gap at the Marne or free up the German armies to shift further west with the Italians filling in to the east or along the normal French-German border?
>>1271411
I'm going to go full armchair general here. While the Italian military was rather incompetent (lack of military history outside of condottieri, incompetent generals that thought Roman ideas that had been outdated for 2000 years made for good strategies), their soldiers were still soldiers. Let's look at what happened to France in our timeline when Germany declared war.
>The French fought in the frontier regions
>Not realizing that it's 1914 and not 1870 they wore bright colors
>Get BTFO
>All survivors concentrate around the Marne
>Reinforcements from Paris and the rest of France arrive
>They switch uniforms to something more practical for modern warfare
>Miracle of the Marne
>Germany's lightning victory was stolen away from them and they were forced into a long, two front war
Merely including Italy here limits the number of men available at the Marne. We would very likely see what happened in WW2: the French destroy the Italians, but there aren't enough men to keep the Germans outside of Paris. Despite being their superior in every way, the French will have to surrender to the Italians as well.
Now consider that this means all of Western Europe is German, the Netherlands probably won't say safe for long, and in WW1 the Germans actually managed to bring Russia to its knees. Germany has won, and there's close to nothing Britain can do. Even with America involved (considering America in WW1 wasn't America in WW2).
Total German victory, which also leaves them capable of building a navy to challenge the British for the next war.
tl;dr: Praise Italy, the true savior of Europe.
>>1271411
WWI would probably reach an end before the Us get involved.
Italy was not as shit as in WW2, and its presence as an ally could knock Russia out of the war quickly. Then Germany would invade as far as Paris.
Voilà , you have Germany controlling Europe in 1916 or so.
No Eastern Europe clusterfuck, surviving AH empire, surviving Ottomans (as much as one can dislike them, the Middle East was far more stable with them).
Italy would have been blockaded and starved until they gave up, the war dragging for 1-2 years more at max
/his/ is there any chance this would bring about the industrial revolution in BCE? Why didn't it work, and what would have to happen to make it better?
A heat engine really can only be exploited if you have many more development behind it. Hero was a fucking genius, but his tine didn't had the infrastructure to use his ideas.
They didn't want an industrial revolution. Steam engines and machines in general were well known and widespread in the antiquities as toys. They saw no point in putting them to use as tools.
>>1271371
People have known about steam power for thousands of years but it was an incredibly impractical and expensive technology until the industrial revolution.
However, to be fair, if anyone in the ancient world stood a chance of developing steam power it was certainly the Romans. Not even the Chinese at their peak could match the Eternal Italic.
Prove Communisim works
>Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries
0/1 so far
Prove Capitalsism works
>Almost every country in history
0/10982301931301 so far
Read Amadeo Bordiga nigga.
Capitalism is the economic calculation problem.
Is he right, /his/?
Yes, but today we have safe zones and need to protect our feelings.
>>1271313
Did Voltaire die protecting someone else's freedom of speech?
>>1271325
So he is full of shit because he didn't actually die?
Tell me about the hijab, burka, niqab, etc;
Why do they wear it? Where did they originate from? If I pull it off will they die?
>>1271135
It would be extremely painful.
>>1271139
She's a big girl
>>1271142
For Jew
What would happen to the child, who's parents always discourage him and questions all of his acts - from like, careless childish playing to goofing with / interested in a thing he found in the garden - with simple "Why?" questions - "Why would you need that? Why do you do this? L" etc
Isn't it normally the reverse, with children asking why?
>>1271132
They ask why and how their surroundings works. But what if we face them with questions about how and why THEY di as they do
Freud said it affected intelligence in later life. The way parents react to "how is babby formed" dictates if kids remain curious or not. If the parents react harshly or tell them some bullshit it hampers their interest in other questions for fear of chastisement. If they respond positively the kid develops an impulse to research.
sorry cant remember where i read it.
More and more I find that I can't find stimulating material, more and more I realize I'm one of this generations greatest minds, more and more I realize I myself must contribute.
So /his/, what's up with that? Why isn't any material from the past 2 millenniums stimulating or challenging to me? I'm not that far ahead of anybody, am I?
Present to me stimulating ideas, now /his/
Have sex, go scuba diving, then drop some LSD. You'll think of something.
>>1270952
It probably means you're retarded and aren't actually getting the meaning of anything you read.
Come up with a (realistic) solution for overpopulation and the subsequent unsustainable resource use.
Hard mode: no space travel easy fix.
>You can't actually prove god exists, therefore god doesn't exist
>You can't actually prove conscious beings other than yourself exist, therefore you're the only real conscious being
Why are atheists content to come to the first conclusion but not the second when they follow the same line of thinking? Why do they draw the line at solipsism?
>therefore god doesn't exist
They don't say this though (protip: most atheists are agnostics and agnostics are actually atheists).
>>1270889
>You can't actually prove conscious beings other than yourself exist
You can though, it's pretty fucking easy actually.
>>1270889
To be fair, I'm fine with everyone being meat zombies with no soul and I'm actually an aberration.
![United_States_eugenics_advocacy_poster[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/aL4UwMd.jpg "United States eugenics advocacy poster[1]")
Why nobody ever talk about american eugenics/segregation/ethnic cleaninsg and nordicism that preceded german one by several years?
seems you got an answer.
>>1270784
kek
>>1270660
>will will
I guess a high grade person didn't write that then.
>"the poor you will always have with you, and you can help them any time you want. but you will not always have me."
what did he mean by this?
There will always be poor people, but Christ won't always be here as a dude walking around, and while is here, it is right to glorify him with all your money.
>>1270575
>Jesus wants your money
Don't trigger me tripper.
He doesn't want your money, he just didn't mind being anointed with expensive oils.
>>1270560
Giving alms always puts on in danger of becoming vain.
