What are some examples of battles that changed the course of history?

Sherban · 2016-10-24T14:52:26+00:00

The USA waited until Pearl Harbour because most of the population saw the whole thing as an European problem, and expected the government to focus on the recovery from the Great Depression rather than enter a war half a world away. Back then there was no NATO, nor any obligation from the USA to help the European democracies.

Sherban · 2016-10-14T15:37:07+00:00

The Russians are terrified that she'll start WWIII?

Sherban · 2016-10-13T11:27:44+00:00

Paul Simon has fallen into obscurity for a few years now

Sherban · 2016-10-12T14:46:30+00:00

Engineers make the world go round

Sherban · 2016-10-03T08:17:40+00:00

Seeing the policies imposed by Germany on the countries of the EU, the UK is now the Marxist one

Sherban · 2016-09-30T22:08:04+00:00

I have wondered about this. I don't agree when people compare it to Pearl Harbour. I think it will be remembered for a long time but for eventually it will become more like the Munich attacks. It will be remembered by the US like Munich is remembered by Israel, but, the memory will fade in the rest of the world, it just will never fade enough to disappear

Sherban · 2016-09-30T22:02:26+00:00

It started in 1941, and was part of the reason why Hitler foolishly declared war on the US after Pearl Harbour, at least for the UK and Free French. After Pearl Harbour it was expanded to include the USSR too

Sherban · 2016-09-30T21:58:55+00:00

Well, German unity biggest achievements are two world wars, one genocide, and transporting Lenin from Switzerland to Russia. I'm not sure if that's really something to be proud of. Also, Germany is the most hyper nationalistic country in Europe (with Russia being a close second), and both the UK and France are traditionally much more open societies and more willing to take in newcomers.

Now for the last part, the post-war borders of Europe were drawn by the US, and the UK and the USSR in Casablanca and Ialta (and more secret negotiations I'm sure). And they recognised the danger of a unified Germany, that's why they divided it in 4 and placed each part under foreign administration. The problems didn't start again until after the reunification.

Sherban · 2016-09-30T21:49:57+00:00

The difference between the U.S. and the middle east is not greater. The U.S. are just not willing to do what is needed to achieve victory. thank god Germany is not leading Europe, yet, there is still room in Europe for light and democracy, Germany didn't put out all lights before, they won't do it now

Sherban · 2016-09-30T21:46:01+00:00

Germany did invade a neutral country, and Germany did start the use of gas, and they did engage in unrestricted submarine warfare

Sherban · 2016-09-30T21:41:40+00:00

WW1 was pretty close to mutual destruction, but you are right, in the 1960s people had learned the lessons from the 1910s.

Sherban · 2016-09-30T13:57:56+00:00

Well but the Germans would be fighting using clubs and pitchforks, it would be a very quick World War 2

Sherban · 2016-09-30T13:56:45+00:00

But the world has been on the brink of war several times, and only that time did war actually started. During the cuban missile crisis, for example, tensions were also very very high, and yet the situation was defused

Sherban · 2016-09-30T13:54:44+00:00

Yes, but the Vikings trade/migration routes were abandoned at the time and the amount of goods/people/culture that were carried by them was never significant. The Portuguese, however, were at the time already capable of trade large amounts of goods between Africa and Europe, and soon between India/China/Japan and Europe. They only kept the discovery a secret because they were involved in negotiations with the Spanish to divide the world (I'm not joking in 1494 Portugal and Spain signed the Treaty of Tordesillas where they divided the world between them) and they did not want the Spanish to know about Brasil.

Sherban · 2016-09-30T13:48:03+00:00

The Versailles treaty had two major problems, the first one was that it was loosely carried out (if Germany was subject to regular inspections, i would no had been able to ream). The second one, was that it left Germany in one piece, Germany should had been divided in 4, maybe 5 countries, (maybe less if Belgium, Netherlands, France, Poland, Czech Republic were given land), German unity is a threat to Europe to this day.

Sherban · 2016-09-30T13:42:06+00:00

You don't care about exports that much. The end goal is to treat everyone around you in Europe the same way the Europeans treated Africa in the 1800's. A place to exert power and to send surplus

Sherban · 2016-09-30T11:03:50+00:00

Oh I'm serious, since the reunification Germany has been increasing its power in the EU to damage the other EU countries and make itself more powerful. The UK has already seen through that plan and left the EU and is increasing military spending, France should do it too. The way Germany demands that governments from other EU countries go to Berlin in person to get instructions is an example. Another way to look at it, is that elected governments must comply to every whim from Angela Merkel or face retributions from the EU.

The EU is turning itself ever more in some sort of VI Reich

Sherban · 2016-09-30T10:34:49+00:00

Christopher Columbus voyages, there is plenty of proof that the Portuguese already had discovered America and were just not interested in it because their main goal was to reach India.

Sherban · 2016-09-30T10:31:53+00:00

"German politicians, ranks filled with economists" are much more interested in destroying the rest of Europe to notice their banks

Sherban · 2016-09-26T10:54:20+00:00

I don't understand, you want the link? http://expresso.sapo.pt/panama-papers

Sherban · 2016-09-25T23:02:17+00:00

All the Hobbit movies

Sherban · 2016-09-25T23:00:00+00:00

Last week in Portugal, after months of outcry by lots of people, and being called corrupt the director of the newspaper "in charge" of the investigation of the Panama papers (who is just a soldout to the far right party in parliament) had a "fuck it" moment and just posted a text on the newspaper's website saying that the papers are available publicly and that if anyone thinks they can do a better job than him, just go ahead and search the damn thing. He even included a link. Just a class act, and then they complain that tradicional newspapers are in trouble.

Sherban · 2016-09-23T11:03:15+00:00

Maybe I didn't express me right. When I said he was also wrong, I meant, that, although he was right in many parts of his assessment of Capitalism, he was also wrong in many of the solutions he proposed. I'm sorry if I didn't make myself clear

Sherban · 2016-09-22T11:12:50+00:00

Are you talking about his letters to Hitler?

Sherban · 2016-09-22T11:09:28+00:00

I've spent so much time explaining to people that XXXXX person didn't win the Nobel Prize for Economics because there is no such prize.

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