>>1388948
What would you describe as being in decline? Currently we have the most powerful military in the world, and the means to project such power to any corner of the globe we wanted to. We have an enormous economy and culturally we are dominant. I would say our society is stagnating a bit, but it's not like that can't be changed. At most we're becoming a little decadent, but I would say we're far from collapsing.

>>1388948
>fundamentally flawed financial system, promoting inequality and causing crisis in regular intervals
>complicated global logistic structure vulnerable to disruption
>massive overconsumption of resources, risking depletion
>destruction of ecosystems on a massive scale, causing a great extinction event
>dependence on cheap! oil for almost everything
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>>1389140
>plant some trees
but you said enjoy the ride

>>1391506
What a shithole, no way it looked like that

>>1391506
Why did Constantinople get the works?

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>>1391506
Istanbul

>>1386658
What a qt.

>>1386658
>soviet nazis
>soviet
>nazis

How fucking wrong is that image.

vikings, saxons, slavs where all weak betas

Anglo-saxon chicks stated several times the Vikings were ripped and had huge hard dicks.

>>1386600
>vikings, saxons, slavs where all weak betas
wew

They are a confrontational people.

They've been more of a liability than an asset to every power that's counted them as a vassal or subject, from Babylon to European Christendom.

Because they are an easy scapegoat.

>>1389506
Their only negative quality is being too successful

muh finest hour

Stopped the Germans controlling middle eastern oil fields, forced them to waste resources in Western and Southern Europe, and essentially negated their navy.

We did perform terribly, but our most important contribution was just being there and not succumbing.

>>1379297
Battle of Britain, D-Day/invasion of France, North Africa, enigma code, etc... What the fuck are you talking about?

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>>1372579
The Quasi-War the Americans fought against the french shortly after the French royal family was overthrown and its navy began turning into a piracy network attacking american shipping.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasi-War

Also, American-Moroccan alliance is the bond that never breaks

>>1372737
Neat.

I knew there was conflict between the French and U.S (mainly the XYZ affair) but never the Quasi-War.

Any interesting highlights wiki won't mention?

>>1372737
Were any actual French ships used? I know they sent a shit load of privateers to harass the US.

Here's the real red pill. Your reaction to reality's lack of inherent meaning says more about your own psychological makeup than it does about reality.

If you were a strong personality, you would realize that "valuable" means "valued by someone" and "point" means it has a point to someone, and would embrace the possibility of setting your own goals and striving to do great things.

>Everything besides drugs, sex, alcohol and sleep
Those things don't matter either.

To be quite honest, I'm glad nothing matters. If nothing matters, you can hardly be faulted for favoring the things you want to favor over others. Faith, knowledge, self-cultivation, gratitude, temperance, humility, excellence, are all the more beautiful because they are neither necessary nor rewarded on any metaphysical scale.

well, accepting nihilism really helps. When you realise the only point in lofe is the one you make yourself, then you can actually give it some meaning.

>>1387772
had more jews than Nazi Germany during WWII

Heaven on earth (if you were ethnically german and not disabled)

Everyone was poor and the Jews owned everything

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>Arab socialism
>pan-arabism

>>1386998
>Only way for Ethiopia to die the death it deserved for 6k years.

Great. LIBERATE THE PRISON OF NATIONS

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>>1386998
No Al-Andalus?

Make Hispania great again.

>>1370406
Comparing a mace to say, a sword, you have denser construction, the mace is thick, especially around the head.

That means, for the same weight, you have a shorter weapon, and a correspondingly slower swing.

Reach is good. Striking quickly is good. It's only when armor develops to the point that the extra anti-armor utility is worth giving up reach and speed that you see maces overtake things like swords and hafted weapons.

Armor got some huge boost in the late medieval period, hence the rising...
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>>1370406
>maces, clubs, warhammers etc. used so rarely?
What the fuck are you talking about? All the knights carried warhammers around, it's the only way to defeat plate.

>>1370406
It wasn't as required?
You need blunt things like that when you're dealing with heavier armour. There are tons of issues with using weapons like that which are 'outweighed' by the need to defeat armour.
If the armour isn't enough to warrant that sort of attention why bother with it at all? Of course there will have been people who do prefer that type of weapon in many periods but the most efficient solutions become the most common. Clearly something was doing the job better.

The Devil.

Giant fire breathing flying lizard

Crocodiles

Mods will delete this thread if there is any good in the world

>>1386944
That is quite possibly the most retarded battle tactic I've ever seen

>>1386944
Replace the elves with rocks then maybe

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Human Civilization

Egyptian

>>1388759
Why?

Capitalism-Private ownership of the means of production and wage labor

Socialism-Communal ownership of the means of production

Spooks

why?