USA had nuclear bomb faster than USSR but USSR had nuclear energy plant before USA. And considering what's currently going in US and PRC space programs the latter is way more probable to reach it first.

Polish W is similar to V like in Russian names pronounced in English. Ł is basically same as English W

Parenti was an American and used only English sources, anticommunism was all around him, naturally he did internalised some of it. Hell, even more scholarly and not American Domenico Losurdo in his book about Stalin few times just accept western "Stalin bad" assumptions without questioning them.

Yes, it will be like Rhodesia cope but 1000 times worse

It's hard to be an anarchist, not only no colon but also no prostate

And also Gondor had to deploy 2/3 of its forces in the south, where the most populated areas were, and Aragorn brought some of them on the ships, captured from pirates.

That would fit. Harad send iirc 10000 men to Sauron's army but all them were riding under one banner so they were probably from just one polity there and the rest of Harad might want to get some sweet revenge on Gondor for centuries of colonialism if they seemed to be weak.

TBH, if Sauron guarded Orodruin, he would have won. He had amassed a decisive material advantage by that point, and the only thing he didn’t have was time to apply it.

Yes, but he DID guard the Orodruin, that massive army did not stationed in Black Gate for nothing, he just did expected military invasion instead of two hobbits, and to be fair hobbits did seem to have some natural protection from his magic which was mentioned by Gandalf iirc. Also the Black Gate army was literally everything he had left at the point, and those probably weren't his best soldiers, those went with Witch King army. Other thing was that Western armies had absolutely no coordination or war plan at all, except Fellowship mission everything was improvised on spot.

I don't have much affection for maquis, not only they were clearly tokenized but also seemed to be the typical strong independent pioneers seeking their own destiny far from the "bureocratic" postscarcity communist society yadda yadda, aka. settlers. Just had the misfortune to settle on the land on the border of highly militarized fascist empire instead of less developed tribal indigenous people, so they got they teeth whacked and when Federation offered them they will help them move to some other planet where they could continue their wild west fantasy they refused apparently prefering to be treaded on by Cardassians.

That was French facility, and the killed nazi was none other than Oskar Dirlewanger himself, one of worst monsters in entire SS and one of main butchers of Warsaw. I think Americans would also offed him though, he was too much compromised and useless for anything except comitting atrocities.

Lib Star Trek fans are weird, they all imagine themselves as being Sisko but every time they post about politics and society it's always like you would read Dukat or Weyoun.

they believe that some green “wounderwaffen” or “wounder-tech” like carbon capture, lab grown meat, AI or whatever is going to save us all deus ex machina style last minute by a huge push from all investors/the invisible hand and “one of the good” billionaires.

Even if such wonder tech is invented, it will be in China and western countries will do everything possible to stop on behest of their oligarchs.

I don't remember exactly where i read about it, probably in paper books, but i think it were Kitchener's comments about the fair and corageous Sudanese who accepted pitched battle where Kitchener could massacre them by modern firepower vs the insidious and sneaky Boers who waged partisan warfare so he invented concentration camps and all other anti-insurgency tactics which were and still are up to this day used by such wholesome and fair military forces as Wehrmacht and IDF.

I love those threads about porn in China.

Western left: "Pornography is exploitative and wrong for numerous reasons"

China: "Ogay" bans it

Western left: "Nooo, not like that"

China: "Another day, another banger"

Angry Brit noises

I read Atlas of Middle Earth and they actually go into the details of that war and i was like "wait a second, that's actually plausible logistics, tactics and strategy" but for some reason everyone only remember the quote that Sauron don't care how many of his troops die.

Two things strike me particularly: how little troops Gondor fielded in what was the existential conflict for them, pointing out that Gondor was actually sparsely inhabited shithole and that Numenoreans and their descendants were worst administrators ever. And second how Hobbit's Battle of Five Armies was a colossal blunder for Sauron's forces which most likely indirectly cost him the War of the Ring later.

First known example of using flanking tactic was literally in the first battle in history recorded with some details, that is the battle of Megiddo in 1457 BC where Egyptians defeated the Caanaanite coalition by streching their forces and attacking flanks.

Maybe they are Polish lmao, here the diminutives for Vladislav (Władysław) and Vladimir (Włodzimierz) only differ by one letter: Władek and Włodek

Obligatory reminder that the Anglo ideal of fair and honorable war is the battle of Omdurman.

Producing the new plastic costs about $2,300 per ton—which is competitive with both oil-based and bio-based plastics.

Looks mighty disappointed

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