With Israel independence day coming up, let's discuss it's history.
How would you have compromised with the Arabs?
>>1123156
I would have genocided them while I had the chance. Yom Kippor war, no-one would have intervened to stop Israel annihilating those shitstains.
Settle the jews somewhere else.
>>1123156
Once in High School I asked a Syrian kid if he was an Israeli Jew. I genuinely thought he was Israeli based on his accent and complexion. He got butt mad, but he said he was more mad about being called Israeli than being called a Jew.
Relatively, looking at other Italian Prime Ministers, was Mussolini really that bad?
>>1123079
if only mussolini hadn't invaded greece, taking hitler's attention away from the soviet union in the summer and tying his army up for precious warm months... oh how i lament the loss of all that could have been.
>>1123110
Why did Mussolini invade Greece? Surely there must have a geopolitical reason behind it that was detrimental to the war effort.
>>1123131
Are you autistic? You can't have a New Roman Empire without Greece, That's like well...Greece without Debt
What made the Low Countries and Germany drift away from each other?
Teutonic plates
>>1122694
ha gateeeem
>>1122596
The low countries are very alluvial providing geographical barriers, they are also connected to trade with Denmark, France and England. The rise of sea trade during the Renaissance rivalling trade along the Rhine coincides with the religious upheavals and greater independence.
It is possible that "robber barons" played a role in this. Previously the empire would regulate tolls and taxes ensuring everything is fair and square, when this system broke down and the HRE didn't offer them much protection against French incursions, various cities probably began to wonder why they bothered. Though I'm speculating here.
What weapons were used by the average WWI soldier? What was used by the more specialized units?
A shovel.
>>1121639
Bolt action rifles, hand grenades, and some variant of the Maxim gun for the mostpart. Lots of handmade melee weapons, because a 6 foot long pike doesn't do you so well in the confined space of a trench.
A very broad question which I always like to see fleshed out by people who know more of the specifics than I do. It was truly a world war, and Germany's western front is not the only type of combat that was fought. African colonial campaign, and the ice fortresses of the alps are two other great ones, to say the least.
>>1121639
Depends on the army. Most people had bolt actions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_infantry_weapons_of_World_War_I
Am I the only one who misses this show? It may not have been the most historically accurate show on television, but it kept me entertained while it lasted.
>>1121529
I got triggered by the Zulu defeating the Jaguar Warrior, it doesn't get worse after that right?
>>1121529
I enjoyed seeing warriors from different cultures but the inaccuracies bogged it down.
I love the concept.
I'd actually love to see it as a regular TV series. Like a bunch of warriors from different time periods end up in the same place through some cosmic shenanigans and after a heated introduction they team up to beat the bad guy.
Did anyone else see this? While you all are busy shitposting about living and dead philosophers, a Canadian kid discovered a Mayan city.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/forgotten-mayan-city-discovered-in-central-america-by-15-year-old-a7021291.html
>>1121173
>implying archaeology is important
>>1121203
A Canadian teenager discovered an ancient city. You are a shitposter on a marginal board of 4chan that hasn't accomplished anything.
Very interesting OP. I wonder how many cities and ruins in Mesoamerica have been lost to the jungle that are out there waiting to be discovered.
Good to know there are still things worth discovering
Haven't seen anything related to maritime history in a while.
Shall we have a naval thread gentlemen? Anything goes but I know next to nothing about post ironclad warships. I do know a thing or two about wooden sailing ships so ask away.
>>1119357
>>1119361
tell me about europe pre-civilization
>>1113148
Just tribes, building little hill forts and worshiping nature gods
Nothing too exciting.
Thank you based Greeks and Phoenicians for civilizing the world and making history interesting.
>>1113368
Although, hill forts are pretty fucking cool
Also megaliths
ICE AGE CIVILIZATIONS NIGGA
SHIT WAS LIKE CONAN THE BARBARIAN, EXCEPT IT WAS REAL
Why there are so few commentaries about the 50 years of the Cultural Revolution?
Is it because dwelling so much upon it would undermine the narrative of the left? After all, the Cultural Revolution in China was the moment in history where humanity has come closer to True Communism, and it was absolutely horrible. Besides, too much of the terminology and practices of that era are similar to modern terminology and practices of the hegemonic left for them to feel safe talking about it.
I ask because I want to see a documentary about it and I can't find none. On Netflix the only political documentaries are about leftist obsessions such as Nazis and mass killings of communists in the Third World (which are totally justifiable when you study the Cultural Revolution by the way).
wow, just wow.... i can't even
just go back to your containment board neckbeard nazi >>>/pol/
>>1132252
How does criticism of the Cultural Revolution automatically makes one a Nazi?
Mao did literally nothing wrong
He just killed a few gay artists and smashed a few tacky pottery
who cares? its all water under the bridge amigo.
Please explain me the 1968 Paris "revolution".
>>1129031
>revolution
literally nobody called that a revolution
>>1129031
uppity hipsters got their revolution hijacked by obscurantist po-mo bourgeois philosophers secretly working for usa
>>1129031
Leftards used the naivety and idealism of youths to take over France
Then they installed mass immigration and a couple of of other stuff responsible for the dying state France currently knows
What's the story behind this photo? He's clearly not young Stalin
>>1128228
Just a shit meme
>>1128228
Ye oldene photoshop.
>>1128228
I think it's a photo of young Stalin when he was arrested.
What went so wrong?
Literal barbarians in every sense of the word. Afghanistan is on par with Hyborian age shit, it's that backwards and savage.
It's also kind of a meme country that didn't exist until 18th century and includes a shitload of tribes, which often leads to tribal conflicts.
>>1104317
Vocal cord parasites
>>1104317
Americans built a big dam
Turns out this drained a basin that became perfect for opium
Communists took over, and a dominant tribe started settling prime real estate (including opiumland) while suppressing everyone else with Russian help
America, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia destabilized the country with a civil war while planting a radical religious seed in a highly tribal and independent region of the country
The Americans tried to come in and run the place, only to empower cronies and target everyone who didn't like these cronies with heavy ordinance
>>1104333
The one mute Hamid fighter who looks a lot like Bin Laden would have been fine
Reading about the first Jesuits who entered Tibet.
I'm perplexed really. The level of erudition the Jesuits had is really unlike any other group of intellectuals.
These men entered Tibet, China and a number of other countries and managed to learn the language ( with a near native proficiency level ), study these cultures like modern anthropologists, dig deep into their canon ( and with such a great degree of understanding that scholars today have to agree with their insights and conclusions ) and even be skillful engineers and artists at the courts.
How come Jesuits are so based?
>Whore of Babylon
>based
>Occult blasphemers
>based
Catholicuck detected.
Jesuits were literally all Jewish
Pretty much any kind of battleship or carrier can be sunk in seconds with conventional-weapon rockets fired from hundreds if not thousands of miles away. All the old doctrines about "force projection" have been rendered obsolete IMHO. Navies of major powers continue to spend billions on new flotillas but it's just the inertia of military-industrial-complex tax-and-spend bullshit. Prove me wrong.
>>1124400
You need ships to transport supplies across the oceans, you are chair general scrub. Do you know how much it takes to transport a company of soldiers? How about a Battalion? A Regiment? Brigade? I'm not talking about shipping personal because efficiency is Airbus but what I am talking about is vehicles, ammo, medical supplies, equipment, food, ect.
Until space is used as an effective axom to transport supplies from spot to spot the navy will always have a place.
Now because of this massive need for logistics, these ships need adequate defense. Not only that but Aircraft Carriers make extremely effective launching points to drop Paratroopers to Expeditionary Force landings.
*the following is the sound of OP just getting BTFO because he plays too many video games and has never set foot in the military*
When did force projection become obsolete? I must have missed that.
China is also the only country capable of sinking carriers at present, in simulations and assuming our new destroyers that are coming out this year are unable to defend against it.
>what are nuclear submarines
Fucking retard
I've always wondered and /v/ is talking about the new battlefield game and discussing this topic.
Could the Germans have won the war if the US was not involved in the war? Let's say they didn't economically sanction the Japs, because that's the main reason of their involvement.
Come on, /his/, get WILD!
I don't think so. American Lend & Lease was a non factor in the early Soviet victories. Which I think were ultimately key to that front. Britain had both beaten off the Germans in the Battle of Britain and turned the tide in the Battle of the Atlantic well before American entry into the war with new transport tactics and equipment. At that point Germany is facing a long war against two powers with a noticeably higher industrial capacity. At the same time, American efforts on the non-Eastern fronts cannot be ignored, so I imagine a longer war overall with a much slower and minimalized Western Allied advances. Still some involvement, mind you, as the British were active in Africa and provided half the troops for D-Day. Maybe the Soviets get to take the entirety of Germany some three or four years down the road?
The US was already very much involved in the war before Pearl Harbor. It was Roosevelt's policy to support Europe's democracies against fascist aggression. He worked assiduously to find any way around Congress's Neutrality Acts to shore up Britain against Germany. The lend-lease act took place when the US was still a non-belligerent but it was decidedly NON-NEUTRAL. Roosevelt was determined to see the weight of the US thrown behind the Allies one way or another. The US had already declared a massive chunk of Atlantic waters to be under its protection (a deliberate 'fuck you' to German U-boat operations on British shipping), without Pearl Harbor maybe they just engineer some kind of incident in the Atlantic as a casus belli.
well, that means ...
- without the early US supplies to UK?
- and later later land-lease?
- all the supplies to USSR?
- without any military answer to the attack of Pearl Harbour?
SURE!
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