Grand Admiral Thrawn's latest activity
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Grand Admiral Thrawn reacted to Don Corleone's post in the thread Would a Democratic Victory in 2004 Have Affected the Great Recession? with
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Unlikely. The bad mortgages and the real estate bubble were already in place. The Democrats took Congress in 2007, but didn't avert... -
Grand Admiral Thrawn reacted to DougM's post in the thread Pearl Harbor never becomes a major Naval base? with Like.
NOBODY on earth is so freaking stupid and criminally insane as to use half of there entire navy that has cost a kings ransom and that...
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Grand Admiral Thrawn reacted to ArtosStark's post in the thread Zimmerman denies the telegram with Like.
The POD for a delay in USW, which was the contention I was responding to, is 1 February 1917 at the latest. Or the day before when the...
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Grand Admiral Thrawn reacted to ArtosStark's post in the thread Zimmerman denies the telegram with Like.
Ah, it’s one of these kind of threads. Alright, I’ll get back to that in a minute. First: The story of the Zimmermann telegram is...
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Grand Admiral Thrawn reacted to NoMommsen's post in the thread Zimmerman denies the telegram with Like.
... it was perhaps even somewhat more complicated than @Alex1guy already indicated. Room 40's 'boss' Reginald 'Blinker' Hall sat for...
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Grand Admiral Thrawn reacted to Questerr's post in the thread Short Stirling used as Maritime Patrol Aircraft for Battle of Atlantic? with Like.
This move is one of the first made by Not!Bomber Harris in They Shall Reap the Whirlwind. Generally historians agree this would have...
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Grand Admiral Thrawn reacted to Carl Schwamberger's post in the thread Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs? with Like.
Take a look at the peace proposal the Japanese government sent to the US embassy in Switzerland early summer 1945. Labeling it...
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Grand Admiral Thrawn reacted to Carl Schwamberger's post in the thread Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs? with Like.
I have not read the minutes of the meetings, nor the memos myself. Those who have trawled those tell that the leaders saw the famine as...
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Grand Admiral Thrawn reacted to Sekhmet_D's post in the thread Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs? with Like.
The Japanese high command would probably just say that once several million starve to death, supply will finally meet demand and a new...
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Grand Admiral Thrawn reacted to Bellacinos's post in the thread Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs? with Like.
Japan did have a horrific crop failure that was projected to kill 3 million in the fall of 1945, you just don’t hear about it by then...
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Grand Admiral Thrawn reacted to Carl Schwamberger's post in the thread Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs? with Like.
A point that has not been raised in this discussion is the third item, or more accurately the first, that hit the Cabinet. Data...
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Grand Admiral Thrawn reacted to Carl Schwamberger's post in the thread Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs? with Like.
Yes they were. And yes the minutes of the meetings clearly show Hirohitos unprecedented but entirely legal intervention broke the war...
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Grand Admiral Thrawn reacted to TDM's post in the thread Would Japan surrender conditionally without an invasion or atomic bombs? with Like.
Yep, but remember Japan's "Big 6" (Supreme war council in 1945) were military guys in 5 of 6 positions, so the view of the armre forces...