What is the dumbest thing that's ever happened in all of history?
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>>18576624Operation Barbarossa
>>18576624The Zimmerman Telegram imo. That was proof that imperial Germany was too retarded to survive. The proposal was absolutely unequivocally without question impossible. Mexico's military, population, and industrial output were absolutely dwarfed by America's, and Mexico was in the middle of a FUCKING CIVIL WAR where America literally had troops in Mexico with impunity. Yet Germany thought they would accept a proposal to declare war on their far far stronger northern neighbor in exchange for Germany's help (somehow?) in letting them reacquire their "lost" northern territories which had at that point been part of America far longer than they had been part of Mexico. Germany just looked at European territorial disputes and assumed everything worked exactly the same in North America.Then this ridiculous, absurd, completely retarded proposal was naturally rejected and created a diplomatic incident that made it impossible for America to remain neutral, directly leading to their entry into WW1 and Germany's downfall.But even more retarded than all of this, the German foreign minister SAID IT WAS AUTHENTIC. He had absolutely no reason to do that other than thinking that maybe if he said that Mexico would still accept it. Literally foreign policy 101 is that when espionage fails you disavow knowledge of it and call it a plot by your enemies to embarrass you. All they had to do was say "this was a plot of British intelligence, obviously we would never do something so outrageous" but they didn't do that because they SOMEHOW were so retarded that they actually believed Mexico would accept.
>By the end of the war, both sides had exhausted their human and material resources. They were thus vulnerable to the emergence of the Islamic Rashidun Caliphate in the 630s, whose forces invaded both empires. Over the course of the rest of the 7th century, Muslim armies swiftly conquered the Levant, Mesopotamia, Persia, the Caucasus, Egypt, North Africa, and the Iberian Peninsula alongside southern parts of France after 711 AD. These conquests led to the fall of the Sasanian Empire and a significant reduction in the size and power of the Byzantine Empire, which over the following centuries would fight several wars with the Muslim powers for control of the Near East.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine%E2%80%93Sasanian_War_of_602%E2%80%93628
>>18576624>Rome getting sacked by the goths>any time someone invaded Russia in winter>Gorbatschow thinking he could liberalize the Soviet Union without it falling apart>all the famines caused by communist retardation>the EU establishment thinking they could counteract their population decline with mass migration from the middle east and Africa
>>18576624Circumcision becoming popular
>>18578335This is a combination of two separate surviving mayan myths into a single story that the author of this book wrote for fun. It's not historical.
>>18578361they aren't mayan myths, you retard, it's fucking central mexico. The quadruple cheeked up lord leading to the fall of the toltec city story is repeated in several independent historical sourceshttps://www.calmecacanahuac.com/blog/uncategorized/the-legendary-mesoamerican-city-of-tollan-tula-fell-because-of-its-rulers-insatiable-desire-for-big-butts/
>>18577802>Muh exhaustion and shiet>Never mind the fact the mujahideen had 1000000x less the resources and also came from devastating warsShitantines got slaughtered by the hundreds by a single Arab warrior wearing nothing but loincloths sir
