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The Demilich posted:Only the ignorant or morally repugnant could ever be proud of America. quite a story imo
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Mandoric posted:I think there's a distinction to be drawn between the "one swift kick" principle and an approach based on the US's own against Spain over in large part the same claims, to be honest. Less hope of an actual collapse, more hope of untenable colonies being cut loose. Quoting this for later reference
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Frosted Flake posted:A little late to Japan chat but if you read the Barrier and the Javelin, about their campaigns in 1942, they had no idea the British, Dutch and Americans would give way like that. The IJA was supposed to be a sideshow why the IJN waited for the climactic battle and instead overnight their reconnaissance detachments were seizing oilfields almost without a fight. They had no idea that they were going to get all the way to Rangoon, or New Guinea, let alone Manilla, within the first months of the war. Speaking of Willmott's The Barrier and the Javelin, I always see it mentioned as part of a "trilogy" with Empires in the Balance as the first part, but haven't found any mention of which of his later books if any was part 3... was it a dead project?
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Feb 21, 2023 00:08
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holy poo poo Biden went to Kyiv.
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would lol if brandon turns out to be one of those emperors who loses a standard on the frontier
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he'll be like that emperor who was captured by the persians and they didn't bother to get him back
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that’d be funny too
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the us having their own tumu crisis would be p funny
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Russian television using Biden's head as a stage prop
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i wish
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Feb 21, 2023 16:10
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who will win ww3?
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well, if you're right and nuclear war isn't real, i'm more than willing to say you won. if you're wrong, nobody. either way, it wont be the united states
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Relevant Tangent posted:who will win ww3? The dead
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Relevant Tangent posted:who will win ww3? The stick and stone merchants
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these fuckin nutz
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if nobody thinks they'll win then world war three seems unlikely to happen
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Relevant Tangent posted:if nobody thinks they'll win then world war three seems unlikely to happen definitely
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every time i crack open a history book the thing that really stands out to me are all the rational actors
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war cant happen to me, im the main dude
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"war happens because at least one side thinks they'll win" doesn't seem controversial
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Relevant Tangent posted:"war happens because at least one side thinks they'll win" doesn't seem controversial goons dont set national policy anywhere
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croup coughfield posted:goons dont set national policy anywhere we got trump elected
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what if its "if we go now we have a small chance of winning but if we wait we definitely lose" ?
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its true that no one goes to war unless they think they have a chance to win. do not confuse this for an ability to accurately assess those chances
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Relevant Tangent posted:if nobody thinks they'll win then world war three seems unlikely to happen There are definitely crazies who think ww3 is survivable for them personally. Missile defense is probably fake other than launching small yield counter-nukes to defend a city which may well be the plan but i bet there's some freaks who think the us could do a sneak nuke sub attack on say china's ground based nukes and they're willing to roll the dice on their own personal survival from the response. Probably more and more of them as the us continues to decline. Hell, why do you think the us has hardened bunkers if they don't think they can win?
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Relevant Tangent posted:"war happens because at least one side thinks they'll win" doesn't seem controversial No one started ww1 thinking it would end up as the war to end all wars.
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if they did they would have called it the last war or something instead of ww1
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croup coughfield posted:every time i crack open a history book the thing that really stands out to me are all the rational actors i enjoy the part where States stop prepping for war sometime around the birth of capitalism
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is any country, except north korea, ready for war right now? helll nawww
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Relevant Tangent posted:"war happens because at least one side thinks they'll win" doesn't seem controversial I can see America nuking china because they start beating us at our own game, and we can't be assed to just be better, so we would do it just to make sure no one surpasses us on the global stage.
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the orb can do more than suck light
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Feb 21, 2023 20:55
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I remember right when it happened and the thread went orb crazy wow that was nice
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Feb 21, 2023 20:56
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how do you think they made it glow was there a man under the table with a switch
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You don't have to think you're going to win to start a war, you just have to think that not going to war guarantees a worse outcome than going to war, win or lose. Add in that political decision-makers are irrational actors with imperfect information, and you get lots of dumb ways for unwinnable wars to start.
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SideEffectShit posted:is any country, except north korea, ready for war right now? helll nawww russia thought they were
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Relevant Tangent posted:russia thought they were Yeah she withstood the unprecedented imposition of sanctions by the International Community (tm) and the wholesale backing by said International Community (tm) from lethal aid to outright intelligence aid has not delivered a decisive blow to her army.
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stopping russians from buying or selling games on steam without pretending they're like, totally in kazakhstan even though russians were always who you went to to pirate games is some poo poo
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so, in other words, every russian has NordVPN?
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