Message from @Attrition in the desert

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2018-06-28 01:01:55 UTC  

Ok I'll start. The intervention of the US in 1917 in the great war hugely tipped the scales in the entente's favor. Leading to greater negotiating power at the Paris peace accords and the eventual brutal territory seizing and monetary stipulations on the central powers at the treaty of Versailles.

2018-06-28 01:02:18 UTC  

TLDR - It's our fault

2018-06-28 01:02:21 UTC  

ooh new channel

2018-06-28 01:02:49 UTC  

Yeah just saw it too

2018-06-28 01:03:02 UTC  

Soo essentially we caused WWII

2018-06-28 01:03:17 UTC  

IMPORTANT

2018-06-28 01:03:34 UTC  

Butterfly effect

2018-06-28 01:03:43 UTC  

The real question is , why did the (((international press))) want us in the war so bad?

2018-06-28 01:04:08 UTC  

They correctly assessed our warmaking ability?

2018-06-28 01:04:11 UTC  

why wouldn't it

2018-06-28 01:04:15 UTC  

war is money

2018-06-28 01:04:35 UTC  

among other things

2018-06-28 01:05:02 UTC  

I'm a proponent of the "muh lusitania" argument being insufficient

2018-06-28 01:06:29 UTC  

It's almost like after the central banks were established the US has been used as an attack dog in a series of proxy wars

2018-06-28 01:07:43 UTC  

Like aside from the Mexican telegram and the lusitania, what reason did we have to intervene?

2018-06-28 01:50:31 UTC  

this but the goats are nibbas

2018-06-28 01:57:05 UTC  

Rofl

2018-06-28 02:05:56 UTC  

videos like these are great for perspective

2018-06-28 02:17:33 UTC  

Yeah I love those time lapse map vids

2018-06-28 02:18:50 UTC  

You know Alexander had to do it to 'em.

2018-06-28 02:21:09 UTC  

Alexander was fantastic

2018-06-28 02:21:46 UTC  

Muh horse lanes

2018-06-28 02:34:00 UTC  

Though I would say that Ptolemy was ironically a better general and administrator.

2018-06-28 02:52:09 UTC  

I admittedly don't know as much as I should about Ptolemy

2018-06-28 03:16:38 UTC  

Pretty badass guy, my rational for him being better than alexander is thus. Alexander used his Macedonian army to beat all the occidental armies, then Ptolemy beat *that* army with Egyptian levy troops and some Macedonian Calvary.

2018-06-28 03:17:20 UTC  

the companions :)

2018-06-28 03:17:43 UTC  

He might not have been as much as a luminary but he held his territory for a lot longer and his dynasty lasted all the way to that thot Cleopatra.

2018-06-28 03:18:09 UTC  

right

2018-06-28 03:18:48 UTC  

Why is history so vast. so hard to learn it all

2018-06-28 03:19:05 UTC  

I guess you could apply that same thinking to a lot of figures. That the guy that beats the guy that was famous for beating other guys is dank.

2018-06-28 03:19:10 UTC  

Could spend a year on caesar in Gaul alone

2018-06-28 03:19:15 UTC  

For sure.

2018-06-28 03:19:46 UTC  

Caesar in Gaul is one of the earliest anti-insurgent manuals really.

2018-06-28 03:20:20 UTC  

F vercingetorix

2018-06-28 03:20:52 UTC  

Tfw the romans are balls deep in your territory and you call the other chieftains for help who could completely surround him with superior number but they say "nah"

2018-06-28 03:21:52 UTC  

Hell, I'd be scared to get on Rome's bad side too