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!historychads

I'm tried to explain before to you dimwitted half-apes but I'll try again:

In my time, the time of the old ones, we didn't have tik-toks. We grew up with things called books that we got knowledge from.

Now... okay now, put that down and stop chewing the pages. It's not a special protein supplement to help you maximize your gains. We dumbed it down into video format for you.

This is based on one of my favorite books, David Macaulay's Castle. About a castle, the process of building it, what it was for, how it would withstand a siege, and what its greater meaning was in history.

The amount of resources my tard ancestors could waste on fighting each other back then is truly staggering.

!historychads

Reply to [https://rdrama.net/h/mnn/post/329733/russian-natural-gas-deliveries-to-europe/7563630#context].

!schizomaxxxers Note that he says this because he's Romanian and they're not Slavs. I've had Romanians try to talk me down from this but I have a schizotheory where I suspect that actually they're some of the "Celts" recorded in the Balkans by the Greeks c. 400 BC. I mean think about.

• They speak a Romance language†. Has anyone proven that the Celts in northern Italy didn't?

• The Greeks never really gave a shit about about classifying languages††, that's mostly an 1800s German form of autism.

• You had all these people going up and down the Danube. The Thracians, the Triballi, the Scordisci or something.

† This is the best argument I've heard against my schizo-position: I point out that that I can read Romanian almost as well as French. So surely all the Gauls must be related. It can't be that far off. But I was told that in the 1800s there was a deliberate effort to change the Romanian language to be more French, which would explain a heck of a lot. I was reading highly technical stuff about archaeology which is a billion times easier than actually having a real conversation with someone. That's exactly the kind of topic where everything is a loan word.

†† There are frustrating exceptions to this. It comes up in Herodotus, Thucydides, the Suda. 90% of the time these people don't give a shit about the language people are speaking. I mean have you ever actually read the Odyssey? Star Trek gets shit on for everyone speaking English but these guys sail all over without a universal translator and they do just fine. But there are these notable exceptions where they point out language differences. One is really fricking obvious, that the Etruscans/Tyrrhennians in Italy are from Anatolia but there's also the Pelasgians and various other groups in the southern Aegean.

!historychads Talk me from down from having controversial views before I get put in a straightjacket. I think I just pissed off both Italian and Greek nationalists, the most powerful forces in the world. Please ask the Albanian nationalists to help me. Don't worry, they already know me.

!historychads !anticommunists the whole purpose of the CIA funneling money, weapons, and ammo to them with the help of the Pakis was to give the Soviets a hard time.

Do you think the dead ziggers and trillions of rubles bled were worth it?

Pics of Red Army soldiers during the Soviet-Afghan War

!historychads

In 1400,after a 18-day siege of Sivas,the Ottoman garrison surrendered on the promise of Timur that 'no blood would be spilled upon surrender'. To keep his promise,he had the Ottoman garrison buried alive. pic.twitter.com/sHZC3h2jlK

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@Redactor0 grandpa confirm what I got wrong

Nothing fam. Just like I expect from you. Let's see if there's a few points I can elaborate on slightly.

USA Navy forces were not immediately aware of the ramifications the Battle of Midway would have upon the momentum of the Pacific Theatre

Keep in mind that both sides didn't even know how what ships the other had. They were getting bullshit intelligence from their own pilots all the time, so for example the Japanese were overestimating how many carriers they had sunk and had no idea we still had 3 left in the Pacific at that time.

the sheer dominant magnitude of the influence an aircraft carrier would as a weapons platform would supercede even the wildest prewar speculations

I gotta push back on this just slightly. Battleships were going obsolete but it wasn't completely over quite yet. Notice how important they were at Leyte Gulf on both sides and that was near the end of the war. This is one thing where I actually got some insight from computer games. Like so often, that comes in the form of actually getting the geometry involved. A battleship at flank speed could get about as far overnight as a carrier-based plane could fly (I'm oversimplifying here, but you get it). So you could actually dash in and catch them with a little luck. Especially if there were a few clouds out.

But it was really marginal. At the end of the war the proximity fuze for AA shells came out which helped the battleships a lot but also jet engines and guided bombs. And just planes that could fly farther. So it was really obvious by 1945 that within a few years they would be totally useless for fighting other ships.

the Royal Palace in hue

The bastards got there before Old Man Redactor could take pictures of it. But there was a lot of beautiful stuff left in Hue even after the battle.

this upcoming deafeat would be the greatest blow dealt to the US for the entire war

That's a really good way of putting it. You must have some angloid DNA.

It was the single greatest massacre of VC forces to the extent that they literally ceased to fricking be a political power within the communist sphere in Vietnam entire and Cambodia. From then on the North Vietnamese had near absolute control of military operations.

The VC were never really an independent force. At least not at the top level. There were lots of commies in South Vietnam at the beginning of the war of course, but the leadership was always directed from Hanoi. What was really changed by Tet is that all these low-level commies native to the South got killed off. After that, there was no longer any pretense that this was a guerilla war. By the time the old man got there (I think 1970) it was completely a conventional war between the North and the South fought with advanced high-tech weapons. He wasn't hauling an M-16 around when he was on his photography trips to old historical buildings in Hue because there weren't any guerillas to be scared of. Those people were all dead.

The Phoenix Program was also very helpful here. Just using basic 1960s police and office work they rooted out the commies in the villages. This was basically just turning the tables on them. Going after everyone who is on the enemy side. Except we didn't use terrorism the way the VC did, chopping off the head of the mayor's kid and shit like that. The cops just arrested people in 90% of cases. (Statistics on the Phoenix Program are quite interesting, something to go into more detail about someday.)

The US and ARVn performance was absolutely spectacular, perhaps one of history's great battles like fricking Cannae or Waterloo or something

Let's not suck our peepees too hard here. Old Man tells me a story second hand of a guy who had been in some big base around Saigon during Tet. He complained that he never got to shoot anybody because they were all slaughtered by .50 cal machineguns before they even got close enough. This wasn't Hannibal or Wellington we were dealing with.

us Air Cavalry (helicopter troops)

My dad will swear up and down that he hated everything about the Army but this is exactly the kind of comment that would draw him out. The 101st was airborne, it was NOT cavalry!

the lies and deception of the military a and 2 administrations about how good the war went

That's what the real crisis was. If it wasn't Tet it would have been something else to trigger it. They kept saying the war is about to end and they were clearly lying. This is a generation that wasn't beyond sacrifices. Everyone's parents had been in WW2 in some shit job sweeping asbestos off the floor of a shipyard or on the side of the world fighting. A lot of them never came back. But there was a purpose. People will sacrifice a lot for a purpose, but if they're getting jerked around, they notice real fast.

Old Man's story about this is listening to the radio where Nixon is saying that we're not bombing Laos and he's looking up in the sky and there's planes above him heading west. It didn't take fricking Descartes to guess where they were going.

unexpectedly brought low USA civilian morale to continue to send their sons overseas into the meatgrinder

A lot of the conventional wisdom about this isn't always right. We had something like half our casualties after Tet. (One third, I dunno.) And popular support for the war wasn't really eroded all that much if you look at the polling data.

Keep in mind that there's a certain class of people who dominate the discussion of the Vietnam War. Specifically: Guys who dodged the draft so they didn't have to go there and know anything about it. There's an extreme level of self-serving bullshit they claim. Like that the "Anti-War Movement" (lol you sure cared about the Vietnam-Cambodia war) had any impact at all on anything other than being so disgusting they helped get Nixon elected in 1968. These are the last fricking people on Earth you should ever believe. I trust the guys fighting on the other side 1000x more than them.

By the time 2023 arrived the most critical munitions would be basic artillery shells

So my two things I was saying going into this is ATGMs are gonna be important (because of experience in the Middle East in previous decades) and basic b-word artillery shells. There was this cult of precision munitions from Desert Storm. The thing I never heard anybody explain is: What if you don't know exactly where the enemy is tho?

Unironic WW1 bunkers and trenches also came to dominate the southern and eastern parts of Ukraine from Donbass to Crimea, with static artillery war and massed charges for both sides being the most popular strategy, on a grinding stalemate similar as to the ending phase of 1952s Korea War.

The last full-scale war we had between two opponents that was a fair fight was the Iran-Iraq War and it was a heck of a lot like this. I keep telling everyone, but nobody believes little old Redactor. I guess I gotta post more Chronicles of Victory.

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Alexander the Great, whose tomb has been missing for nearly 2,000 years, could be buried in Broome in Western Australia, a Perth man says.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2009-03-20/hunt-for-alexanders-tomb-greece-egypt-persia-india/1625070

AUSTRALIA IS THE PLACE OF BURIAL OF THE BEST BUSSY BLASTER ALEXANDER THE GREAT