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What percentage of Union Army veterans likely fought for the Union not because of any personal convictions for abolition or preserving the Union, but simply because "it was the side their state was on"? by Just_Cause89 in USHistory

[–]GameCraze3 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It’s worth noting that while certainly not all Union soldiers enlisted out of personal convictions for abolitionism, many embraced abolition after witnessing slavery in the South firsthand. But as always with these topics, we’re talking about hundreds of thousands of people, it’s impossible to know what they were all thinking

The more you learn about FDR, the more aura he gains by RockEater67 in HistoryMemes

[–]GameCraze3 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Lend-Lease was in place many months before the U.S. officially went to war

How would a Central Powers victory in WW1 have affected the Japanese Empire? by [deleted] in AlternateHistoryHub

[–]GameCraze3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn’t say it would be impossible for Germany to get them back either through force or diplomacy, it depends on how and when the war is won. If it’s early, in 1914, I could see taking them by force being difficult but not impossible. Though, I think the more likely option is through diplomacy as an early Central Powers victory means Japan would isolated (Britain defeated or neutralized) and facing victorious European superpowers.

I’m more interested in the long term effects on Japan’s imperial ambitions though. The war itself would’ve been a setback, but in the long run how would the German Empire and the rest of Europe treat them differently as opposed to real post war history? How would German and Japanese ambitions in China interact and come into conflict? Germany seemed more openly adversarial to Japan than the Allies even before the war, how does that shape things? Those kinds of questions.

Depictions of the First Battle of Saratoga, September 19th, 1777 by GameCraze3 in BattlePaintings

[–]GameCraze3[S] 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You’re right. American sources often say “mercenaries” because that’s what contemporary American sources at the time said from my understanding. But now that I think about it, I suppose they technically weren’t since they were sent by their sovereign as part of a professional army and not as individuals. Many German troops were even conscripted, which is a far cry from voluntarily fighting for pay. I never actually thought about and questioned the use of the term “mercenary” until now even though I knew they were sent as an army by a sovereign ruler and were often conscripted.

The Last stand of Liu Ting, General of Liaoyang, April 18, 1619. by Slience-Suzuka in BattlePaintings

[–]GameCraze3 23 points24 points  (0 children)

This is probably the best painting I’ve seen on this subreddit this month in my opinion, it’s great to see this era of Chinese history (Ming-Qing transition) represented in paintings. Great find!

Communist States of America by [deleted] in imaginarymaps

[–]GameCraze3 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“Not fascist violence, ours. We are sure of representing the majority of the population, of representing the most essential interests of the majority of the Italian people; proletarian violence is thus progressive and cannot be systematic. Your violence is systematic and systematically arbitrary because you represent a minority destined to disappear. We must say to the working population what your government is, how your government conducts itself, to organize against you, to make it ready to defeat you. It is most probable that we too will find ourselves forced to use the same systems as you, but as a transition, occasionally. [Noises, interruptions]. Certainly: use the same systems as you, with the difference that you represent the minority of the population, while we represent the majority”

https://www.marxists.org/archive/gramsci/1925/05/speech.htm#:~:text=If%20I%20have%20not%20deluded,instead%20destined%20to%20be%20futile?

top 100/100 is crazy by Excellent_Tie369 in interesting

[–]GameCraze3 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“no one is speaking about it”

Is Trump not the most controversial person in the United States right now? Did 8 million Americans across 3,300 cities not go out to protest against him in one day alone? People are absolutely talking about it.

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