How was a predominantly foot-mobile Chinese army able to outmaneuver and catch off-guard a highly mechanized superpower force equipped with tanks, heavy artillery, and total air superiority? Also was this the reason why the US didn't dare to invade North Vietnam during the Vietnam War?
>>18260306It was pretty terrible all the way to the 80s, only since China's industrial boom in the 90s could the military be equipped adequately and not be chronically short on clothing, shoes, and equipment.
>>18259646the PLA was pretty non-serious until Xi Jinping reformed them into a proper modern military but they still totally lack any modern combat experience
>>18260306ha ha my grandfather was an officer in the CPVA and a lifelong true believer in communism. he said the only time he momentarily had doubts was when they found how the American soldiers all had luxuries like candy bars that the average private got as part of his rations while in the Chinese army they were extremely scarce and only occasionally available to upper echelon officers.
>>18259930The Norks have always had an independence streak and rarely follow the Chinese model or interests.
>>18260306>>18259414I doubt the "training" these men could offer would be of much value, beyond advice about how to survive as a Chinese disposable soldier.
>browns italyHeh, nothing personal kid
He was just getting rid of the germanic illegal immigrants
isnt 15 million a bit unrealistic
>>18260313>>18260326>t.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsCFAniGiy4
>>18260335cool it with the antibyzantine remarks
>>18260313>Procopius estimatedLMAO
decades later and nobody can give a concise explanation on why it collapsed
>>18260186More racist than Rosenberg
They rejected stalins cult of personality
>>18260186> Gorbachev just decided to randomly upend the entire political system of the USSRAnd nobody said NO? Imagine if American president did that. He would be impeached in 5 seconds.
>>18256761People who say this make it sound like the typical nature of states interacting is peaceful benevolent mutualism but in reality state are always competing and trying to undermine each other, regardless of ideology. They make it sound there should be a time out or easy mode for the USSR and other socialist states because they are socialist.
>>18255363What makes you think there is a conside explanation? This is history we're talking about.
>"If we can't live in peace, then let's die in peace">crowd cheersPure cinema.
>croud cheers because this is the 5th time he's done this and they've all been fakeout loyalty tests before and noone has eaten or slept for days.
>>18259905i think they cheered because they were held at gun point
>>18260414People holding the guns were convinced then.
someone once told me that George Washington is a chad and James Madison is a virgin.it was kind of weird because im not a nerd and i was just posting about how hot James Madison is, but what did he mean? brit apologist?
>>18260396Probably. James Madison had a wife he loved very much and was not a virgin. He was the shortest president ever, however. He was also the best.
>>18260407moids hate their wives more than anythingwhy side with the brits though? killing brits is funny
>be Roman legionary>have strong jaw due go high testosterone and good diet>helmet fits your skull, bucal protection fits your jaw>Hollywood: "yeah, fuck that, let's put people with weak jaws">now helmets don't fit skullsWhy?
They're just not tied closed as tightly. Also sorry for your diagnosis.
>>18260305>good dieto im laffin
>>18260305Actual historical helmets were custom made and fitted to the wearers heads. Props in movies are often made before actors are cast, and therefore may not fit the actor's heads correctly.
>>18260385So, are you telling me that despite all the tech and budget big studios have, they can't create good helmets?We're truly seeing the end of civilization.
>>18260305It's not exactly a phobia towards historical accuracy and more Hollywood writers can't help but "remix" a story as a form of self-expression. It's why faithful comic/book adaptations are so fucking rare in Hollywood movies but far more common in anime/video games. Hollywood writers think they are too good to be faithful to a story and are improving it by touching up stuff. Historical accuracy is much better in games/books/anime because the creators in those Fields don't have as large an ego on average.
>this a serious post I am looking for sourcesWhat are the best books to read about aksum, the inter-period dark age and Zagwe dynasty.More specifically I am looking for a GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY, to better understand the regions of ethiopia. Wikipedia has dogshit sources.This is for a alt-hist project I am building
>>18260097Christian Aksum BTFO the Jewish kingdom of Yemen. Somewhere in the desert an Arabian man is getting a train run on his ass by the Al-Zutt. Within a generation, Islam appears as a counter to Christianity.
So why did communism fail every time?
>>18253060The leaders inevitably realise they can't keep up with capitalist countries and go to a market economy anyway
>>18253082/thread/The working class is made up by so many people with different ideas and views, it inevitably leads to a purity spiral and infighting
>>18258958> Because a society driven by profit motive is always going to out compete one driven by ideology. No one is going to work hard or do a difficult job if there is no reward. This is retarded. The vast majority of people in a capitalist system are not working for "the profit motive" because they are by design alienated from the actual profit and work for a wage instead. The typical argument for capitalism is that the minority bourgeois class are magic money wizards who are uniquely suited for capital investment and if THEY aren't being enticed by profit then Atlas will shrug and us worthless peons would be lost banging rocks together without their wisdom and guidance.
>>18253060It didn't fail tho. It did exactly what it was intended to do.
>>18259901Such as?
The people who speak Greek today speak it because their parents spoke it who learned it from their parents who learned it from theirs. Going all the way back to people like Homer, Solon, Socrates, Pythagoras, Alexander The Great, etc. Why does this make people mad? There was no single moment where Greek "stopped" and a new language replaced it and then Greek was later "revived".People get mad because they romanticize the ancient Greeks as some pale, marble, Nordic fantasy race and then look at modern Greece - darker, Mediterranean, poor, Balkan - and assume "something must have happened." Instead of accepting boring reality (languages and cultures are passed parent to child and change gradually), they invent replacement myths to protect the fantasy. Continuity threatens them because it means the past is not dead or abstract or theirs to cosplay with - it belongs to real, imperfect, living people, and greatness does not guarantee eternal dominance.
>>18259514>Macedonia HellenisticDafuk is that? Some half churka/Albanian abomination.
>>18259514>>18259572meme g25 slopmodern greeks are kinda 2/3 ancient greek and 1/3 slavic
>>18259584>modern greeks are kinda 2/3 ancient greek and 1/3 slavicThen where does the swarthyness come from?
>>18259811swarthiness is the initial configuration of people
>>18259511So what you're saying is the original Greeks were even darker and swarthier than they are today. And Yamnaya admixture bleached them a little bit.
How come Abraham Lincoln is celebrated for his phenomenal and dutiful commitment to maintain the preservation of union, even if some slights against ordinary rights and some lives had to be lost to do so, yet when Slobodan Milosevic attempted the same thing through the same methods he was shunned, mocked, and unduly demonized? Is Bill Clinton a "lost causer"?
never mind the fairness of the comparison. the fact about milosevic I like the most, because I never, ever have seen anyone mention it, is the name of his party.of all the books (not a lot, i admit) and documentaries and vids I have read and watched about him and the wars in question,i am pretty sure i have never heard "Socialist Party of Serbia".
>>18257988>Now the region is divided and conquered into IMF vassals. Now the region is a slave colony.Nigga Yugoslavia was kept afloat by IMF funds.
Lincoln was absolutely vilified by the press and many of his political contemporaries. It's only in retrospect that people praise him as a heroic figure. He was extremely controversial in his own time. Hence why he was assassinated.
>>18258089What a weird thing to say
>>18259259It is true
Catholics and Presbyterians are theologically closer to one another than either are to Orthodox. It's just outward ritual expression and aesthetics Catholics and Orthodox share more commonality in. It's superficial. Catholics and Presbyterians operate under the same Augustinian framework. Orthodox are more similar to Pelagians.
>>18259069I'm Presbyterian
>Catholics and Presbyterians are theologically closer to one another than either are to Orthodox. OP is retarded and does not understand sacramentology or ecclesiology.He also thinks having a liturgical tradition is superficial.
Calvinists don't operate under an Augustinian framework.They reject the sacraments Augustine identifies, like ordination and marriage.Yes, while both Catholics and Orthodox uphold both ordination and marriage as sacraments, and Augustine agrees, Calvinists reject these as sacraments.The sacraments are of centrally critical importance to the religious life of faith and truly orthodox theology. Augustine understood this.Calvinists do not. Calvinists deny the body of Christ being really present in the Eucharist, as would be necessary for him to be fully present in any real sense as a man with both body and soul that are united to one another intractably and without the confusion of division or separation. And not only body and soul of man together being really present, but his divine essence too.His glorified body available to the body of the communicant just as his soul is available to their soul, like corresponding to like, both uplifted and infused with the divine graces.The fullness of the Godhead dwelling bodily, that those of faith might discern not merely the symbol of his body, but the flesh and blood itself really present along with the human soul and godly divinity.
Do Calvinists profess that the body of Christ is made present to the body of the communicant?Or that his soul is made present to the soul of the communicant.One manly soul, one manly body, both divine and made available with respects to the manly soul and body of the communicant?Which uplifts man unto divinity with him, in him, and through him?No, last I checked they claim that his body is made available to the *soul* of the communicant. Which is a categorical error.This is a thinly disguised gnostic conceit, one which pretends the body of Christ is mere appearance and was never fully incarnated. Instead, being of a purely spiritual substance like the soul is.
>inb4 b-but Jesus is in heaven and seated at the right hand of the Father so it's impossible for his body to be present on earth at the same timeIn the Old Testament, when the presence of God was in the Tabernacle and with his people, was he suddenly absent from heaven?Of course not. Jesus' physicality which was gotten by the Virgin Mary is not a barrier to his real simultaneous presence in the Eucharist all around the world because it is not accomplished through ordinary means, but by the supernatural power of the Holy Spirit and a substantive miracle.Since as a man, he is also fully divine. Having all the natural qualities of man AND the divine power to transcend these inherent limitations of corporeal form which impose themselves on our senses and faculties of reason.As much as Jesus is truly God and truly man, and as a man has a body and soul, this fullness of divinity which is embodied in him is fully present in the real sense, in the Eucharist, in no wise lacking in flesh and blood or his human soul. If you were to dispute this, you would have to argue that the boy named Jesus was not truly God.
If Judaism had went on to become the dominant religion of the West, would we still have Christmas kitsch, but Hannukah-themed instead?
>>18257623Judaism is not a proselytizing religion. It is not an alternative to Christianity that “could have become a world religion,” nor is it the case that, absent Christianity, large portions of the world would be Jewish. Judaism has never had a mandate to convert others, and it has never functioned that way.
>>18258841they forcefully converted the Galileans
>>18258843What do you even mean?
>>18258844the Hasmonean dynasty forced Galilee to adopt Judaism
>>18254209idk
Muslims claim that the jizya tax is the most fair tax of all time because it protects the Christians and Jews, exempts them from fighting in wars and allows them to practice their religion in peace and comfort.When a Muslim states this he sees the conversation as finished and over, he views it as there's no possible way you can ever disagree with him that this tax is the fairest ever known to man. And many times this is true. The opponent simply gives up and walks away and concedes that the jizya is "fair and just compared to the taxes we have in the West today"My question is what is the rebuttal to this? Surely there are people who disagree with the jizya tax? surely there must be some argument against it? I have never seen anyone combatting a Muslim on the jizya.
>>18258298>My question is what is the rebuttal to this?devshirme would be the most basic refutationmuslims lie even about jiziya
>>18260196Devshirme was unislamic.
>>18260226if it was unislamic why was it practised exclusively by muslims?
>>18260272'Twas a haram cultural practice invented by turkish muslims with no basis in sharia.
>>18260272Only Turks did that shit and they didnt dare touch the Christians in Arab lands. When talking about Islam its important to differentiate between it and Turds, you will find most of the heinous shit was just done by Turd trash. Which is great because Arabs hate Turds too so we can exterminate them together!
Childhood is hating him over vague conspiracy theories attributed from misinformation and out of context quotesAdulthood is realizing he may very well have been the best president this country ever had
>>18260082Big tent conservatism was the Republican force before Trumpism. The Republican establishment lambasted Trump before it became clear he was leading and finding success with what the voters actually want. The big tent, anti-racist, anti-nativist Republicans continued to stymy him after his first election win, and they still exist now. Even in Trump’s program, many conservatives pander to non-whites and gays. During his second election bid, Trump kept talking big about the “platinum” plan for blacks. He was pandering to non-whites still and it did him no good.
>>18260211Imagine if you posted on Reddit, instead of spreading slander about based D.
>>18260050The share of chinamen, negro, and mehican votes trump got vs harris was larger than ever before. Mehicans and black males are especially going to increase for the right wing. Mehicans are conservative, blacks are masculine, and the dems appeal is estrogen-infused degeneracy.White women vote dem, because they love that shit and are drug-addicted idiots.The times, they be a-changin'
>>18260217Donald Reagan?
>>18260217Dill Dinton?
