Message from @Attrition in the desert
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Gg scipio
He a good boi
tfw you rek a kid so hard it becomes part of your name
seriously, F Carthage
They got fucked so hard
Honestly any civilization that relies on mercenary armies that hard deserves destruction.
Hmm, I see that
Ironically as the romans would learn to their chagrin
Man, I can't wait to visit Rome again.
SPQR scrolled on everything in sight
That's amazing, I'd love to go one day
I'm lucky my parents brought me along to Italy back in the day
Saw Venice, Florence, Rome, Sorrento
It's really something else
I hate American cities now
Yeah, most inner cities are downright depressing nowadays. You know Detroit used to be called the Paris of America?
Which sounds absolutely retarded now
Almost sounds accurate tbh
given the state of Paris nowadays, lol
Yea, Paris is the Detroit of Europe now. 💩
Too true
Bismark, did nothing wrong? OR cucked the Kaiser a bit too much and lead to junker repression in the traditional power structures of the country?
@Attrition in the desert What do you know about the Congolese war? I was watching some video of it, and the squad tactics seem very undisciplined. I know most of the Europeans were mercenaries from Belgium and England. Do you know anything about the minimum requirements for a contract? It seems like they weren't too picky
From what I understand the European involvement was more of a loose coalition of private MCmercs under some African militia colonel. Kind of like the French foreign legion but with the added baggage of Belgium's history of doing nothing wrong in the congo
Lel
Right, I knew that, it's just that those mercs seemed especially incompetent
Mercenaries are usually a pretty retarded solution anyway
Clearly the best solution to insurrection in central Africa is a few good men in short shorts
That being said, King Leopold had a literal gold mine in the Congo for a while, if I was betting on any African country to rise up with the benefits of colonialism in the 19th century it would have been them or perhaps the ivory coast
I think Jarod Taylor actually talks about it in some interview I've seen
The Congo is a miserable place to live. After the benefits of European medicine were cut, it's no surprise to me that the people living there went back to barely being able to survive
It's truly staggering that a people living next to Arabs that had invented the wheel, could not even *adopt* the wheel until civilization was forced upon them
I have a short book on the history of Zanzibar that you might like
Nice, what's the title? I've been getting into the history of the Berber people lately and the bastion of civilization that north Africa used to be
I still maintain that St.Augustine was white
The History and Economics of Zanzibar or some shit
You ever hear about Mansa musa?
Berbers are a very interesting people
Yeah they are pretty white