>>17976235
>the americans had built their nascent industry to be bottlenecked in the 30's

Reminder that the entire Soviet car industry was built by Ford. Yes, that Henry "the Soviet Union is being run by an international Jewish conspiracy" Ford.

>>514002383
>Anybody who says they lost because they showed restraint or their hands were tied is an idiot

Honestly this, the United States pulled just about every dirty trick in the book short of invading North Vietnam or using nuclear weapons and it still wasn't enough.

>>64152010
>I don't think Trump's in charge of throttling most of the weapon supplies, given the previous actions of his administration. I'm not saying he's blameless here, but a lot of the people he's surrounded himself with are degenerate ziggers who go around him and hinder supplies on their own.

He appointed them and can dismiss them at will, so it is in fact, still his fault.

>>64152029

At this point, the only way Russia could achieve anything even remotely resembling a victory would be to launch a surprise nuclear attack on NATO and gamble on Trump's own indecision/self-denial giving them a window of opportunity to inflict enough damage to make it worthwhile. And even then, that's only victory in the sense that you've successfully dragged your enemy down to your level via mutually assured destruction. It obviously wouldn't fix any of Russia's demographic or economic issues.

>>64149200
>A week after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, comedian and political commentator Bill Maher said Mohammed Atta and his fellow conspirators were not cowards for their actions
>“We have been the cowards, lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That’s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it’s not cowardly,” Mr. Maher said on his show “Politically Incorrect,” then on ABC
>Though he does not address the incident with Maher in his new book, The Myth of Martyrdom, Adam Lankford would assuredly disagree with Maher’s contention that Atta – or any suicide bomber – is somehow brave
>“Stunningly, considering his importance, Atta has been fundamentally misunderstood for more than a decade...,” Lankford writes. “[The] psychological autopsy has revealed that Atta’s struggles with social isolation, depression, guilt and shame, and hopelessness were very similar to the struggles of those who commit conventional suicide and murder-suicide.”
>With the exception of workplace shooters, who are not often suicidal themselves, Lankford says that the other three groups are typified by people who are “driven to suicide for the same reasons any civilian might be – anxiety, depression, marital problems, professional failure”
>Lankford argues that, because many of them fear the spiritual consequences of killing themselves outright, they mask their desire to die beneath a foggy veneer of heroic action
>“The desire to acquire fame and glory through killing, and then escape the consequence, is a critical similarity between certain suicide bombers, rampage shooters, and school shooters,” he says.
>“[Our leaders] need to stop claiming that suicide terrorists are the psychological equivalent of America’s Navy SEALs,” Lankford writes. “They glorify suicide terrorism and help the cult of martyrdom grow”

https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2013/0218/The-Myth-of-Martyrdom

>>17899526
>Southern Baptist Saudi Arabia? Huey Long as a Hugo Chavez populist caudillo?

Presumably would have economically diversified by the time oil took off in the 1920s-1930s (cotton would have gone bust by the 1900s at the latest). Saudi Arabia suffers from the problem of both being a literal non-country prior to the rise of oil and being populated by the absolute laziest of Arabs. Venezuela had an almost entirely agrarian economy prior to the discover of oil. Neither nation had an opportunity to diversify.

>>64033169
>Afaik there were instances of them executing black french soldiers but they never had any issues with recruiting all kinds of ethnicities to free up manpower or otherwise get strategic advantages.

The three ethnicities that the Germans considered racially off-limits for impressment were

>Jews (go figure, it's a genocidal antisemitic ideology after all)
>Poles (Germans seemed to have a massive a massive hateboner for Poles at the time, even anti-Nazis like von Stauffenberg absolutely detested independent Poland and wanted it destroyed)
>Gypsies (after 1942)

Everyone else they came up with some sort of ideological cope for recruiting ("Ackshully, Croats and Ukrainians are descendants of ancient Aryans..."). Worth keeping in mind though that these people were still considered fundamentally inferior and had Germany won and the Nazi ideology remained unreformed, they wouldn't even be considered citizens, let alone second-class ones.

>>17862132

Nigger, it's been tested by scientists multiple times and has been decisively proven that if anything else had been different (using a cheap plywood table, two bombs being used, the conference being held in the bunker as originally planned, etc.), Hitler would have almost certainly died.

>>17834693
>They just didn't want to divert from the optimal course that would have allowed them to set a speed record.

Titanic was neither designed to be a Blue Ribband contender nor was that actually attempted (White Star's entire business model was making their ships more luxurious than Cunard's, which were designed to be record-breakers). The whole "they were trying to set a speed record" meme comes from one-out-of-context conversation J. Bruce Ismay had with Captain Smith regarding doing a speed test since the ship had its sea trials accelerated and had certain checks skipped as redundancies. If they were going to do such a test though, it would have most certainly been done in the day.

Fair enough that Captain Smith and 1st Officer Murdoch both made the incredibly ill-advised decision not alter their speed or course after receiving news of icebergs, although I would call it "normalization of deviance" (to quote the Columbia disaster) rather than negligence.

>>63954028

They say that belief is no substitute for logistics, firepower, and general competence, and they're right. But at a certain point, if your side doesn't believe in what it's fighting for, you're going to lose, plain and simple.

>>63954078

Black September in Jordan. Palestinian militants, the pre-Assad Syrian Army, and local Islamists tried to overthrow the monarchy in 1970 and got put down.

The Muslim Brotherhood. They've been trying to seize power in Egypt for almost a century now and managed to fuck up every attempt to do so both legally and illegally. Even after overthrowing Mubarak in 2011, they managed to maintain their influence on the government for a grand total of less than two years before getting overthrown in a coup (that was largely supported by mainstream Egyptian Muslim clerics).

Not a military defeat per se, but efforts by Islamic militants to gain a foothold in Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s largely failed and both of these countries are still secular and Western-aligned, and you can tell because there are bars and nightclubs all over Sarajevo.

>>212450652
>Exposure to large amounts of ionizing radiation has long term effects.

Motherfucker did you not read what I just wrote? Obviously cancer and birth defect rates are going go to skyrocket after the nukes fly, but you aren't going to have your hair fall out and shit yourself to death after the first couple days. And you most definitely aren't going to have "nuclear winter" as >>212450337 pointed out.

>This thread is clearly just propaganda to get people comfortable with nuclear war.

No one here is rooting for nuclear war you dingus. But honestly, pollution caused by the physical destruction of cities (asbestos, pulverized concrete, and the like entering the atmosphere) would be a far greater cause for long-term concern because unlike radiation, that doesn't go away. Think all of all the nasty health problems the toxic dust kicked up from the destruction of two buildings during the September 11th attacks caused. Now imagine that happening to entire cities, and it's not being cleaned up because law and order has effectively disintegrated.

>>63946562
>Franco was based and under him Spain wasn't a shithole like it was in the decades before him and in the decades after his death.

Greatest ruler Spain has had in the last 500 years honestly. Anyone but him taking over and Spain would have been royally screwed.

>Spanish Republic wins
>gets ROFLstomped by Nazi Germany come 1940/41, potentially costing Great Britain the war if the Germans reach Gibraltar

>some other Nationalist like Sanjurjo or Mola winds up in charge
>Spain joins the Axis Powers and has the shit bombed out of it/invaded by the Western Allies, Spanish Republic likely winds up being put back into power post-war and Spain winds up becoming a pro-Soviet enclave in Western Europe (essentially condemning it to economic ruin)

>>212367897

Yeah I don't get why Jefferson didn't have the foresight to realize how the complete collapse of the rule of law under the Committee of Public Safety was both a total betrayal of the ideas of liberty (arbitrarily beheading people for wrongthink and whatnot) and was eventually going to lead to a demagogue like Napoleon.

>>63933943
>Never quite understood why Hitler prohibited Airborne Assaults after Mercury

1. Aircraft losses, Ju-52s were already in short supply due to commitments in North Africa and the soon-to-be Eastern Front and the loss of nearly 200 of them meant that they could no longer be massed for large combat operations. For the Stalingrad airlift, they literally had to pull Lufthansa airliners out of service because not enough Luftwaffe Ju-52s were available.

2. The Fallschirmjägers' equipment shortcomings had become apparent during Crete. They could not reliably go up against even light tanks and expect to prevail, and the Red Army the Germans would soon be facing had the largest fleet of tanks in the world (even if the majority of them were obsolete shitboxes, they were still sufficient for dealing with paratroopers).

3. The Luftwaffe going forward wasn't really able to achieve consistent control of airspace over hostile territory. Even in the USSR where the Luftwaffe was racking up 100:1 kill ratios, the sheer number of planes the VKS could put into the air at any given time meant that flying a slow unarmed transport over Soviet-held territory carried enormous risk (even a single I-16 slipping past the escorts could absolutely fucking massacre a flight of Ju-52s). You saw the outcome of this during the Stalingrad airlift where 266 Ju-52s were lost despite German fighter escorts operating literally out of the pocket until very late in the battle (the last ones evacuated two weeks before the end of the battle).

Allied airborne operations like D-Day, Market Garden, and Varsity were only mounted with total air supremacy where the Luftwaffe couldn't get a plane off the ground without getting swarmed by interceptors.

4. Given how badly the Fallschirmjägers had fared compared to earlier jumps, it was safe to assume that the novelty had worn off and that even costly victories like Crete were likely not going to be repeated in the future.

>>17808499
>Americans were sacrificed on the altar for Churchill and for the treasonous Soviet-symphatizing FDR administration.

Operation Torch was proposed by the British specifically because it was less ambitious than Operation Sledgehammer and thus carried a drastically lower risk of catastrophic failure. Considering the American failure at Kasserine Pass and the British-Canadian failure in the Dieppe Raid, it was the right decision.

>>63918135
>Anon, the Nazis privatized hard enough to coin the English word "Privatization"...

If the private companies you sold your state assets to all have their boards of directors stuffed with NSDAP stooges who are all on speed-dial with Hitler and would kill their own mothers with a chainsaw if he told them to do so, they aren't really all that private anymore.

>>212202971

Okay well there's a difference between laundering money Putin and Shoigu embezzled from the Russian defense budget (I wonder why they're using literal airsoft helmets...) and expecting gibsmedat from the Don after your company and its employees spent the better part of a decade openly insulting him.

>>63915791
>Buffalo was the DNC

What makes you say that? You had a literal /pol/tard spouting race war memes and live-streaming himself shooting anyone darker than a paper bag. This should have stayed on the front pages of newspapers for weeks, if not months, and it was kicked off the news cycle by the end of the week.

Sounds to me like the FBI did some digging and found that Gendron was in contact with a known FSB asset (maybe they even wired him the money since to my recollection, it was never established how he was able to purchase an AR-15 and ammunition in bulk, despite being an 18 year old without a job) and they called the media outlets and told them to get the story off the front pages.

>>63915799
>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/24/neo-nazi-group-the-base-leader-russian-spy-allegations

The Base's predecessor organization, Atomwaffen Division also had some very suspicious connections. Read James Mason's (the primary ideologue for AWD) Siege and it's basically Maoism/Trotskyism with a Nazi filter over it.

>I've heard people say that the U.S. and Russian glowies don't do this kind of thing directly in each other's territories as an unwritten glowie rule, but that doesn't rule out encouraging local proxies.

Yeah, there's also the concept of stochastic terrorism which Mentiswave did a video on a few months ago. He was specifically discussing Democrats' encouraging the assassination attempts on Trump last year through (not very subtle) coded language, but you could definitely apply the same to Russian propaganda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnFQbzwpAgY

>>63825869
>identical sets of identity-less armor (i.e. obscuring their appearance so you can't tell them apart on an individual level)
>identical voices
>identical übermensch physical builds (to the point where Leia is able to recognize Luke as a phony purely due to his shorter stature)
>identical mentality and group ethic of mindless unthinking obedience, to the point where it actively impedes their chances of winning the war because they can't improvise or adapt the way the Rebel Alliance (or even the Ewoks) can and fall for the easiest Jedi mind tricks

Did you even watch the Original Trilogy?