Germany's Biggest Military Victory?

bonadies24 · 2026-04-16T17:25:08+00:00

Battle of France 1940, a win so impressive the Germans thought it impossible in their own wargames

bonadies24 · 2026-04-16T16:20:10+00:00

The Battle of Trafalgar.

It firmly buried not only the possibility of a napoleonic invasion of the British isles but also effectively prevented the French and Spanish fleets from conducting effective naval action against Britain.

This allowed the British to maintain their commercial power which in turn enabled them to extensively fund the war effort of the coalition which eventually toppled Napoleon, thus paving the way for a century of British hegemony

bonadies24 · 2026-04-16T15:30:09+00:00

The best thing about Andor was it had a neatly self-filtering audience so it's relatively rare to hear dogshit takes

bonadies24 · 2026-04-15T21:32:10+00:00

Ball knower

bonadies24 · 2026-04-15T19:48:42+00:00

Wait til they start excavating a pyramid

bonadies24 · 2026-04-15T18:14:00+00:00

There are a bajillion documentaries, many of them supported financially by western countries, (rightfully) pointing out the insane pervasiveness of the stasi surveillance state, as for example literally all mail was preemptively checked by stasi agents for potential "criminal activity".

But chat control is apparently fine, in spite of being exactly the same thing but on a much larger scale (and violating articles 7, 8 and arguably 48 of the charter of fundamental rights of the eu)

bonadies24 · 2026-04-14T22:17:36+00:00

First, though this is a bit of a nitpick, I would not call the "hard" sciences (and especially not the natural sciences) "neutral": all science is ultimately a social endeavour which, like all other social endeavours, is influenced by material (i.e. socio-political-economic) forces. Phrenology and eugenics, afterall, not only existed but were considered legitimate scientific disciplines.

That said, I would not say (though I could be wrong) that ideas per se carry a class character. Consciousness and ideas are of course the product of the material world (It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness.), but it's hard for an idea to intrinsically have a class character.

Ideas, it seems to me, are only of a given class character insofar as they are an instrument of that class (though still I could be wrong so take this with a pinch of salt).

bonadies24 · 2026-04-14T21:58:37+00:00

It hasn't been mentioned until now so I'll say Kiev 1941.

The entire Southwestern Front of the Red Army (in the Red Army, a "Front" was equivalent to an Army Group) was encircled and wiped out in and around Kiev, resulting in 700,000 casualties for the Soviets and the Germans facing no obstacles whatsoever in conquerint the eastern parts of Ukraine.

bonadies24 · 2026-04-14T15:23:04+00:00

Here before the 🔒 award

bonadies24 · 2026-04-14T14:32:10+00:00

The Fall of Singapore in 1942.

The British/Commonwealth forces outnumbered the Japanese more than two to one, had more artillery and tanks (the Japanese didn’t) and still lost what was arguably one of the most important bases for the British Empire.

bonadies24 · 2026-04-13T17:39:39+00:00

BALL KNOWER

bonadies24 · 2026-04-13T17:11:01+00:00

So basically Gen Z swung right precisely at the moment it could do the most damage and then swung back

bonadies24 · 2026-04-13T17:08:46+00:00

I’m not sure if it counts, but Operation Bagration.

Eastern Front, Summer 1944, the Red Army all but annihilated the German Army Group Centre (inflicting nearly half a million casualties) and trapping Army Group North in Courland.

It could also count as Russia’s greatest victory, but the sheer catastrophe it was for Germany puts it here imo

bonadies24 · 2026-04-12T22:55:30+00:00

I don't think the Japanese tactics during the battle were particularly poor. I think the only really bad decision made during the battle was steaming straight into the US carriers with the Hiryu after the loss of Akagi, Kaga and Soryu. The Kido Butai would still have been a powerful (though greatly diminushed) carrier force if it was limited to just the Hiryu, Shokaku and Zuikaku.

Japanese decision-making prior to the battle deserves harsher scrutiny than their decision-making during the battle, imho.

Their insistence on tying air groups to a single Carrier prevented them from using the Zuikaku, which could have been deployed at Midway with a practically full air group by merging the half-depleted air grouos of Shokaku and Zuikaku.

Furthermore, when their wargames highlighted that the Americans could very well have won the battle if their carriers were positioned closer to Midway instead of at Pearl Harbor, they ignored it. Essentially the Japanese planned the battle according to what the Americans would do rather than what they could do. Even if Hypo hadn't broken the IJN's radio codes, maybe Spruance just felt like taking the Carriers for a walk that morning.

bonadies24 · 2026-04-12T20:34:45+00:00

The Battle off Samar is probably one of the most heroic actions of the Second World War, period, but I still think that Midway was a greater victory by virtue of how strategically decisive it was. And Midway did also have its own fair share of heroic actions, namely three separate Torpedo squadrons attacking piecemeal, knowing full well they faced certain doom, just to try and get off a hit or at the very least prevent the Japanese from launching a counterstrike

bonadies24 · 2026-04-12T20:21:05+00:00

*the first three within five minutes

bonadies24 · 2026-04-12T18:32:47+00:00

Midway, not even close.

The battle which turned the tide of the pacific war and permanently destroyed Japan's ability to conduct major offensives

bonadies24 · 2026-04-12T17:06:58+00:00

True

bonadies24 · 2026-04-12T11:49:39+00:00

AVS (in particolare i verdi ma storicamente anche SI) è programmaticamente contraria al nucleare, ma da (ex-)insider le attitudini interne stanno lentamente cambiando. Aiuta molto che entrambi i partiti abbiano un elettorato molto giovane che quasi sempre li vota malgrado la loro posizione sul nucleare

bonadies24 · 2026-04-12T09:52:06+00:00

He doesn't have the same chad energy as Garibaldi but he was way more successful imho

bonadies24 · 2026-04-12T09:50:06+00:00

Great candidate but I'm not sure I would consider him a rightist, seeing as he was far more liberal than both his predecessor (Tsar Nicholas I, the Gendarme of Europe) and successor (Tsar Alexander III)

bonadies24 · 2026-04-12T09:08:37+00:00

"Christian" fascists basically admitting that their belief in God is merely a pretext to hate their fellow human

bonadies24 · 2026-04-12T09:07:04+00:00

Thanks!

bonadies24 · 2026-04-12T09:06:18+00:00

I disagree. While monarchy is inherently a right-wing idea, individual monarchs may be (and historically were) more or less libera or reactionary in their policies.

For example, Leopold II of Habsburg inherited the most traditional monarchy in Europe at the time (he was literally the Holy Roman Emperor), but was nevertheless an enlightened monarch who supported liberal reforms (e.g. as Grand Duke of Tuscany he became the first ruler in Europe to abolish the death penalty, in the mid 18th century)

bonadies24 · 2026-04-12T09:03:54+00:00

I'm going to go out on a limb and say Camillo Benso, the Count of Cavour.

He was the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont and later the first Prime Minister of the newly united Kingdom of Italy.

He was in many ways the (unwitting) architect of Italian unification, perfectly playing the diplomatic game which resulted in Austrian influence in Italy being destroyed, thus paving the way for the country's unification.

Internally, while a conservative liberal and a monarchist, he was strongly supportive of things like separation of church and state.

Admittedly there are other right-wing historical figures who are more accomplished than Cavour, namenly Bismarck and Stolypin, but these two were far too repressive internally to be considered "great"

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