Believing Weimar Germany was a horrible place is like believing the Treaty of Versailles was overly harsh for Germany.

It's Nazi propaganda.

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Why was the germ simply not enslaved after tho?:

Americoids need not talk. This is eurotrash business:

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Today marks 42 years since Argentina tried to colonise and ethnically cleanse the Falklands Islands only for progressive decolonial thought-leader Margaret Thatcher to support land back and defend the indigenous people’s right to self determination against fascist imperialism. pic.twitter.com/aHRGQVIzIs

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Hi everyone

Last week I started reading a book titled “Maldita Guerra” by brazilian historian Francisco Doratioto.

I still haven't finish it yet, it has 512 pages and I'm currently on page 408 but it it's enough to talk about this old dramatic event that's funny enough either forgot or has been the source of nationalistic agenda posting, the book title refers to a quote by the Baron of Cotegipe. I'll start giving you guys some context.

In the early 1860s South America was a very different place from today, Brazil was an Empire, a constitutional monarchy and Gigabased Pedro II reigned as emperor. Argentina had just came out of a civil war between federalists and unitarians (which deserves an effort post) resulting in unitarian victory led by General Bartolomé Mitre who in 1862 became the first President of an unified Argentina. Uruguay was ruled since the end of its civil war in 1851 by the Blanco Party, Bernardo Berro was elected President in 1860, the war was won against the Colorado Party. For those who don't know Uruguay along with Argentina, Paraguay and South Bolivia were part of the Vice-Royalty of La Plata during the colonial period, it was known then as the “Banda Oriental” the Eastern Band. In 1811 Portugal invaded the Banda Oriental which became part of the Brazilian Kingdom (the Portuguese Royal Family was then living in Rio) and then became the Cisplatine province. In 1822 Brazil became an independent country and in 1825 the Cisplatine war began as the Banda Oriental wished to leave Brazil and become part of the United Provinces of the South (which became Argentina). At the end Britain intervened and Uruguay was created as a buffer state between Argentina and the Empire of Brazil on the condition the Argies would never anchluss the place.

Paraguay got its independence in 1811. Between 1814 and 1840 it was ruled with an iron fist by Supreme Dictator (that was his actual title) José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia, known as Dr. Francia as he held the titles of bachelor in philosophy and Doctor in Theology by the University of Córdoba. Dr Francia isolated the small Mediterranean country and purged all the other “procers” or independence Founding Fathers. After he died in 1840 Paraguay adopted a consulship with the power being shared between 2 men, Colonel Mariano Roque Alonso and Mr. Carlos Antonio López.

In 1844 Mr. López became the first President of Paraguay being elected by the Congress.

pic related is him.

Paraguay then opened up however it continued to live under a totalitarian dictatorship. Congress only was convened to elect the president and re elect him again. López appointed his 19 year old son, Francisco Solano López as army General

In the 1850s Solano López who was the king of South American nepo-babies went to France to study, he came back with steam ships and guns bought from France and Britain and his irish concubine Elisa Lynch (who worked as a “courtesan” in Paris).

In 1862 Carlos Antonio López died at the age of 72, his r-slurred spoiled son was his VP and became acting President with congress electing him almost unanimously for a 10 year term. By then Paraguay was a militarist society, they had a small river fleet and a permanent army, revisionists Argie leftoid “historians” made claims that Paraguay was an emerging power because it had a few railroads and an iron factory and that it represented a “threat” to the British Empire a ludicrous notion that only our Platine neighbors and leftoid Brazilian journos like Julio Chiavennato could come up with.

In 1862 the Liberal Party won the elections in Brazil. During those days the Brazilian political stage was divided between Conservatives and Liberals. In 1862 a diplomatic incident with Britain happened, basically a Bong ship, The Prince of Wales sank near the coast of the Great State of Rio Grande do Sul (back then they were called provinces not states). The !macacos stole the shipwreck containers emptying them. Bongland responded sending a fleet to Guanabara Bay at Rio de Janeiro demanding reparations which the cucked libs did. Diplomatic relations with Britain were then cut. In 1864 a civil war erupted in Uruguay, a Colorado caudillo Venancio Flores decided to usurp power. Because of Flores's pro Brazilian leanings (the Blancos were taxing Brazilian imports from Rio Grande do Sul way too high to protect their markets as Brazil used slave workforce which made it cheaper than Uruguayan production, this made Gaúcho Farmers extremely angry with the Blancos) and because their reputation was in total shambles after the Bongland debacle the Liberals in Brazil decided to support Flores but before they consulted with Argie President Mitre assuring him they didn't intend to Annex Uruguay. Paraguay on the other hand was an ally of the Blanco government, Solano López who thought himself as a sort of Napoleon warned Brazil that they would declare war in case of intervention in Uruguay, the Brazilian Government dismissed this. Solano López thought that as Argies and Brazilians hated each other then surely Argentina would let their troops pass and join the fight. There were also some disputed borders between Paraguay and Brazil-Argentina (the misiones and part of Mato Grosso do Sul). In august 1864 Brazil invaded Uruguay to support regime change under the pretext that Brazilian citizens who lived in Uruguay were in danger and being killed by the Blanco government, war with Paraguay never came across the minds of our leaders in Rio de Janeiro. Solano López proceeded by conscripting almost every single man in fighting age. Paraguay had a population of around 400-500k inhabitants back then with a standing army of around 25k men. After the massive conscription and calling all the reserves Solano López got himself an army of 77k men. The Brazilian army back then was only 18k men despite having a population of around 9 million (9.9 million in the 1872 census). López bet was in some sort of Blitzkrieg. By then he suspected Mitre could join Brazil so what he wanted was an alliance between the Uruguayan Blancos and the Argie Federalists, the defeated group were led by the Entre Rian caudillo Justo José Urquiza.

The Province of Mato Grosso was then geographically isolated, its capital Cuiaba had only around 10k inhabitants as the only way to get through it was by the Paraguay River. In November 1864 a Brazilian ship, the steamboat marquis of Olinda was carrying the new President of the Province of mato Grosso, Colonel Federico Carneiro de Campos. Solano López was surprised considering he warned Brazil of war (rentfree in his mind) so h ordered his men to seize the ship and declared war to Brazil. Then in Dezember he invaded Mato grosso and deported all the local Brazilians to Paraguay where they would be mistreated.

Argentina declared itself neutral in the conflict, however they denied the pass of Paraguayan troops, this led to Solano López to declare war to Argentina, he then invaded the northern Argentine Province of Corrientes and intended to reach Uruguay soon. By then the Blancos were deposed and Flores was President. In may 1865 the Treaty of the Triple Alliance was signed between Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. So the war began.

But a funny thing related to Mato Grosso. The main war theater was Corrientes (1865) and South Paraguay (1866-1868). In early 1865 a regiment was dispatched to free Mato Grosso, they walked 2100 km to reach it, arriving in 1867. 1/3 of them were dead, another had deserted. Only 1300 of the 3200 soldiers sent reach Mato Grosso. They were so worn out, sick and tired they didn't manage to accomplish their goals. After being repealed they went to Cuiaba, infected with smallpox. The epidemic killed half of the city's population.

After forming the triple Alliance it was decided in accordance that President Mitre who was an experienced General would lead as Supreme Allied Commander. However the Brazilian generals at the front, The Count of Porto Alegre and the Vice Admiral the viscount of Tamandaré despised Mitre and thought the Argies were either useless or treacherous. The Federalist caudillo Urquiza ended up betraying López and joining Mitre only to retrieve later on and become a war profiteer selling food to the armies like the cunning bastard he was.

It would be only in 1866 with the arrival of the man, the legend, the Marquis of Caxias that the dysfunctional allied force would become organized.

Meanwhile López' r-slurred actions isolated Paraguay, his envoys in Britain were expecting to received new ships and weapons but because the country is landlocked and the only way in was through the Paraná river they never came.

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i was gonna post this in /h/istory which i got a notification it was created but it's apparently not actually there because i get some dumb error message when clicking it so...

meet audie murphy! a dude who makes rambo look like someone who has antifa in their twitter bio.

so the japs pearl harbor'd us and audie murphy, being a typical american, immediately went to the local recruiting offices and lied about his age so he could go to war. being a 5 foot nothing 100 pound weakling they told him to kick rocks. after hassling them for 6 months they finally gave up and he enlisted in the army.

he landed in sicily. on a scouting mission he saw a couple of italian fascist officers and did his antifa duty and put them down. later on another scouting mission in italy him and his bros were ambushed by nazi machine guns. one of his boys got kilt so audie and the other guy took out the machine gun nest. at anzio him and his boys were in a random farm house to get out of the rain when a tank rolls by. they took them out, with audie crawling out of the house alone to rifle grenade the tank. he got his first bronze star here. in italy/sicily he was in and out of the hospital because his tiny frail body couldn't cope. he still left italy/sicily as a staff sergeant.

he landed in france in august of 1944. him and his crew were strutting through a post d-day southern france like they were the shit when they were ambushed by nazis. he immediately picks up a machine gun, killing two and wounding one. the remaining nazis pee their pants and come running out to surrender. audie's bff acknowledged their surrender and the nazis immediately shot him. audie murphy stormed the house alone killing 6, wounding 2, and taking 11 prisoners.

then the most rambo shit ever happened. like a scene straight from a rambo sequel when they went crazy with the action. he was now commander of company B. they are holding a road near a french town no one has ever heard of when 250 nazis and 6 tanks show up lookin' for a fight not realizing they were already dead becacuse audie fricking murphy was in that field. he's calling in reinforcements as their tank destroyer gets...destroyed. the crew bails and audie tells everyone to get to the woods and regroup. he immediately goes towards the fight instead of away from it, climbing on the destroyed destroyer to use it's machine gun and give his boys time to retreat/regroup. he's on the field telephone trying to get artillery support when they ask him how close the nazis are. he responds with just hold the phone and i'll let you talk to one of the bastards! . he then proceeds to spend the next hour holding off the nazi push. he's shrapnel wounded in the leg but ignores it and continues to mow down nazis. he kills 50 and only stops because he's out of ammo. he's calling in artillery closer and closer to his position the whole time. one of the other americans there later wrote it was the greatest display of guts and courage I have ever seen...for an hour he held off the enemy force singlehanded, fighting against impossible odds. . he won the medal of honor for this.

i've only scratched the surface of his war stories. he wrote a book that everyone should read to heck and back. they turned the book in to a movie. the actor who played audie murphy? audie murphy. there wasn't anyone that could even pretend to be 1/10th as badass as him, so he had to do it himself.

fun coned fact: this book is half responsible for my never ending love for anything WW2. in my early 20s i was bored one day and smoked enough weed to make snoop blush and started channel surfing. saving private ryan was on. i was fricking enthralled. higher than i'd ever been and so fricking invested in this movie. that night i had a world war 2 dream. the next day i went to the local library and searched world war 2 book . to heck and back was near the top of the list and had a cool name, so i got it and that was that. i was doomed to forever be a huge boomer butt world war 2 nerd at like 22.

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Askhistorians can't handle the searing questions I'm serving up.

Based Macarthur was 6 feet tall btw (I don't know why he was touching his butt for the pic )

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