Message from @Attrition in the desert

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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

2018-06-28 03:22:44 UTC  

Rome's early strategy is kind of like prison you know? You pick a fight with the biggest guy on the Mediterranean then no one wants to mess with you.

2018-06-28 03:23:27 UTC  

idk much about early republic

2018-06-28 03:25:07 UTC  

I mean in terms of them reking carthage over the punic wars

2018-06-28 03:25:22 UTC  

Hannibal did nothing wrong

2018-06-28 03:25:29 UTC  

he was a son of a bitch

2018-06-28 03:25:42 UTC  

Honestly he really didn't.

2018-06-28 03:25:46 UTC  

Gg scipio

2018-06-28 03:25:47 UTC  

He a good boi

2018-06-28 03:26:13 UTC  

tfw you rek a kid so hard it becomes part of your name

2018-06-28 03:26:37 UTC  

seriously, F Carthage

2018-06-28 03:26:42 UTC  

They got fucked so hard

2018-06-28 03:27:35 UTC  

Honestly any civilization that relies on mercenary armies that hard deserves destruction.

2018-06-28 03:27:48 UTC  

Hmm, I see that

2018-06-28 03:28:00 UTC  

Ironically as the romans would learn to their chagrin