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Alhazred posted:He also started and fueled a civil war in Greece during WWII when it looked like the communists was about to get power. He also encouraged Greece to attack Turkey in like 1920 in order to partition it between France, the UK and Greece (he also offered Italy a piece too, although they found out that they had been offered the same piece as Greece so they turned it down).
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It's funny that even in an article criticizing the notion that the firebombing campaign won the war, he can't bring himself to mention that it was primarily the Soviet declaration of war that forced the Japanese to surrender. Once they realized that the Soviets weren't going to help negotiate a favorable peace, the jig was up.
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May 19, 2021 05:17
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Raskolnikov38 posted:imo it was the double punch of the invasion and the bombs that finally got the war faction to stand aside It's hard to say precisely because there wasn't a little war score bar you could hover over and see -30% nukes -30% loss of Manchuria. But the fact that they were hoping to preserve their colony in Manchuria and then suddenly... boom... it was overrun... I think that made them realize that they had lost their last bargaining chip.
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May 19, 2021 18:09
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Slavvy posted:Ahh yes the extremely thoughtful 'they were the bad guys!!' analysis Finally, someone who sympathizes with my poor grandfather, tragically died while falling out of a guard tower.
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Oct 14, 2021 01:34
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CoolCab posted:there are many times and places in human history where if we hung everyone who deserved it we'd run out of trees before we ran out of necks Just another reason why we need to be planting more trees...
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Does anyone know anything about Russia and the Japanese during WWI? I mean they're both on the same side, but what were their relations like? I don't know anything before the Japanese interventions in the Russian Far East during the Civil War. I think Russia was too busy throwing wave after wave of their own men at Tannenberg and for some reason they didn't have a Far East fleet so Japan was able to snaffle up the sweet German colonies they were after without any "help" from Russia.
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Oct 25, 2021 03:36
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Popy posted:I was joking with a friend about some marrying some decedent of the spanish burbon royal family and he laughed at me and told me to look up whose the current king of spain. Anyone can marry the decedent of a royal family, get a shovel and find your spouse now!
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Nov 3, 2021 15:53
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Weka posted:It mattered and it was bad. Plunging Europe into 20 years of war is kinda a big deal imo. Lookit this Pitt the Younger apologist here
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Nov 5, 2021 01:24
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Raskolnikov38 posted:“wounded” Yeah, he died 'with cannonball to the chest', not 'of cannonball to the chest'.
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I think Yamamoto kind of got the "Rommel" treatment where after the war his loyal supporters cherry-picked his papers and quotes to make him look better.
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Bengasine pasta looks just like spaghetti, so I guess it ain't going away.
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I wonder how much looted war gold he is sitting on
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Jan 20, 2022 01:12
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Re: that quote from Nimitz, the "Hero of Midway": In the 70s there were mutinies on several US ships by the black sailors since they were consistently and obviously getting the worst jobs on the ships and having their shore leave denied.
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Feb 9, 2022 01:35
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IIRC the official mission of the American Vladivostok expedition was to secure the port & the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian railway so that the Czech legion could be safely evacuated but the unofficial mission was to make sure that they were in American hands instead of Japanese hands because the Americans didn't want the Japanese to take advantage of the chaos to expand their holdings in the Pacific. The other unofficial mission was to support the Whites, but since the main white leader in the region was the bloody baron, well, kinda hard to support someone who's too busy killing his own men to go out and fight the Reds.
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Feb 17, 2022 18:36
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i say swears online posted:was looking up steam ships and just found out that the first one was american, not british. what the gently caress, limeys?? IIRC he even offered to build them for the French, but they turned him down as well.
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Feb 27, 2022 04:29
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The 1924 democratic primary was jokingly called the "Klan bake" because it was a battle between the pro-KKK candidate and the anti-KKK candidate. While the anti-KKK candidate won, it wasn't by a large amount, and I'm sure that a lot of African American voters still remembered that, as well as all the other terrible things the democratic party had done to them over the years.
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Mar 13, 2022 03:07
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Man it's weird how the guys who ran their empires into the ground liked looking at a pile of firewood and saying to themselves "this was once a mighty and thriving thing that gave life and sustenance to millions of living beings and I, with my own two hands, have turned it into naught but fuel for the all-consuming fire, devourer of worlds." Probably also why G.W boasted so much about 'clearing brush' on his ranch while he was president.
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Apr 25, 2022 16:21
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Ardennes posted:It only "didn't work out for them" because they were taken out with force by the aristocracy as a form of desperation. Also, the principate made the concept of a dictator obsolete but the name or position didn't matter as much as a centrally force that would then override the senate as they wished. Sulla wasn't taken out by force by the aristocracy, he died fat and rich on his luxurious estate taken from his enemies.
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May 22, 2022 01:59
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500excf type r posted:He witnessed at least one a bomb test with his own eyes iirc he said Oppenheimer dropped some sand or grass or something and did some quick napkin calculations on the bomb that were remarkably accurate compared to the real data later That was trinity
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Aug 22, 2022 23:11
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She was a spy for the union army during the civil war. Only took her like 40 years afterwards to get a pension for it.
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Slavvy posted:Buddy cop procedural set in warlord period china Bridge of Birds would be difficult to turn into a film but kickin' rad if they managed it.
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Weembles posted:I read an account of the HUAC hearings and the red scare where one of the common accusations against people who were black listed was that they were "prematurely antifascist." American volunteers who'd fought against Franco in the Spanish Civil war were rejected from joining the US military for that reason as well.
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Nov 18, 2022 05:35
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i say swears online posted:was it for explicitly that reason? i figure joining another country's military would be a good reason to not let people sign up I read an interview of a Spanish Civil war vet who had said that's what he was told after the war when he'd started asking around. He'd tried to join up in 1942 and was rejected, but by the time 1944 rolled around he'd been let in, probably because ideological purity wasn't as important as getting more meat for the grinder.
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Nov 18, 2022 15:54
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MeatwadIsGod posted:The best thing about Ol' Slow Trot I remember reading was that he'd regularly fall asleep during war councils and only pipe in to say poo poo like "this army does not retreat." The only mark against him is he didn't replace Buell as early as he could have. Iirc he felt it would be too impertinent so some of that southern propriety must have stuck with him. Buell was Thomas's boss not the other way around.
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It's interesting to try and figure out what Japan was offering from their internal communiques, post-war statements and other documents but as far as I know they never made any sort of offer to the Allies so it's kind of moot? And negotiating with the Soviets was all well and good but the Soviets told them "the best you can get is unconditional surrender" and they still refused to offer peace. The Soviet declaration of war was something the US had been asking for; at Yalta I believe the Soviets agreed to declare war on Japan within 90 days of Germany's surrender and they held up theirpart of the deal.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Nelson was a war-criminal who carried out the first terror-bombing in modern European history. quote:What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
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platzapS posted:Modernity is all weird and bundled up in the French revolution. Equal rights for women took centuries despite deriving obviously from 1789 liberalism. There's unfulfilled goals of Seneca Falls, at least regarding religion. Maybe the Catholic Church but there's other options unless you believe that transubstantiation can only be done by man I guess.
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Oct 14, 2023 10:46
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A Buttery Pastry posted:why can't a god lose their divinity? Falling behind on research because you're sending out your mages to fight is the number 1 reason most gods end up losing their divinity.
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Dec 6, 2023 14:22
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A Buttery Pastry posted:helen killer invented the idea of "life unworthy of life" for malformed idiot babies Huh, they named the woman suggesting infanticide "killer".
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i say swears online posted:don't ties on dice rolls go the way of the defender in Risk? Yeah but you get to use up to three dice instead of two.
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Sancho Banana posted:I like Francis Brooks' quote about modern history starting with Cortes and Montezuma's meeting in 1519, so I'm going with that. The vibes are immaculate with that one. Modern age began in 1419 because that's when EU begins.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:EU II belongs to the ancient era of video games. "classic"
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bedpan posted:isn't this essentially everyone who lives in modern Iraq and the surrounding area? same way that they are the descendants of the assyrians? Well the Assyrians live in what is now northern Iraq and the Sumerians in southern Iraq so they're more likely to be related to them, as well as the Chaldeans, Elamites, Martu and anyone else that was hanging around there when the marshes were formed. Keep in mind that that area was part of the Persian gulf ~4000 years ago, the marshes slowly formed after a few thousand years of sediment deposits at the mouths of the rivers.
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Chamale posted:There was a culture of marsh-dwellers in Gascony who walked around on stilts. It's hard to tax or conscript people who live in swamps, so the French government drained all the marshes and destroyed this culture in the early 19th century. Also the fens in England where they were using the swamps to catch fish and hunt and smuggle instead of raising sheep so they used new-fangled steam technology to drain the fens to put an end to that sort of unproductive use of land.
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my dad posted:I hope the vacation was fun. And yeah, would not want to have to waddle up turkey shoot beach. Yeah that looks like a cool place to go. Re: Midway though I think, in theory, a hypothetical Japanese amphibious invasion would involve considerable shore bombardment and air support from the non-sunk aircraft carriers so it's not like they'd be wading towards intact defenders.
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tatankatonk posted:I am going to be in a waiting room for about six hours tomorrow, recommend your favorite history book here and I swear I will read it Poilu: The World War 1 notebooks of Louis Barthas
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A Buttery Pastry posted:it was popular enough that it flowed back to the "home country" from the american side of my family. i was told as a child that one of them was a insanely fat american sheriff who married a sioux princess, which i definitely believed as a kid because they lead the story with the super fat part. Lying about Native American women is a time-honored tradition in the colonies. After all, John Smith probably never met Pocahontas; he was medivacced from Jameston after his powderhorn exploded while he was carrying it.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Maybe he met her in London. No, she died of TB shortly after she arrived in London with her husband. He wrote about his 'adventures' 20 years later and they were mostly made up.
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DJJIB-DJDCT posted:Less than 50 years. Running a kingdom is hard, especially when you start running out of scorpions.
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