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...and in the next 1000 yrs, all of Europe will be the Islamic State.
Watch the animation again and tell me what happens every single time any one color of blob gets to be really large.
Hitler dun goofed. He almost had the world there for a minute (edit: second). One does not simply invade Russia though.
It's disgusting that those lines changing all represent hundreds of millions of peoples lives. Mostly because some leaders wanted more land than they could already even come close to using. Most of those people probably just wanted to live a nice quiet and peaceful life and go about enjoying things they like and raising families and growing old.
It's disgusting that those lines changing all represent hundreds of millions of peoples lives. Mostly because some leaders wanted more land than they could already even come close to using. Most of those people probably just wanted to live a nice quiet and peaceful life and go about enjoying things they like and raising families and growing old.
I agree, but I don't think I would be saying that if I lived in a war zone.We need war to keep the population in check.
On the other hand, it played a strong role in the advancement of society where stronger cultures quickly permeate through societies with weaker cultures. However, modern military is far too deadly to continue the trend.It's disgusting that those lines changing all represent hundreds of millions of peoples lives. Mostly because some leaders wanted more land than they could already even come close to using. Most of those people probably just wanted to live a nice quiet and peaceful life and go about enjoying things they like and raising families and growing old.
On the other hand, it played a strong role in the advancement of society where stronger cultures quickly permeate through societies with weaker cultures. However, modern military is far too deadly to continue the trend.
Yeah, the dates are all messed up.
I also must have completely missed Napoleon's eastward expansion.
soldiers were so expensive to train and equip in 1700 that armies rarely met on the battlefield. they were too costly to risk.I wouldn't say it's too deadly, unless you massively use weapons of mass destruction against civilian targets. It's mostly too expensive. Back in the day you mostly lost soldiers and conscripted, today you lose a lot of gear, and the few people that know how to handle that gear.
But then, infantry still plays the main role even in todays war. Which is why there's a constant drive to better protect infantry, until we can finally get a semi-robotic replacement (propulsion still makes this properly unlikely).
But yeah, war hasn't gotten much more or less bloody. It's gotten less protracted, so more people are likely to die in a shorter interval, but overall roughly the same amount of people die. Wars just don't take a hundred years anymore.
Hitler dun goofed. He almost had the world there for a minute (edit: second). One does not simply invade Russia though.