Recent content by Matteo

Right. And the other reason is money. The popes had been sucking much more money from Northern Europe and this was a strong incentive for these kings to want to take Church’s property and to convert to a theology that said the Church should not be so rich. In France and the iberian kingdoms...

I agree. And, having read a biography of Germanicus, I will add that he was probably overrated by the propaganda of what can be called the Julian party. When you consider how he fared in Germany, you can understand that he was hot-headed and faced setbacks and fought useless costly actions...

It is important to take into account that Caesar was a realist. Legal legitimacy was very important to Romans. Rome was and remained a republic even under what we call the empire. If we want to have a clue of what Caesar would have done with Caesarion, I think we should consider what Antonius...

Holding would-be Belgium won’t by itself prevent the financial crisis that triggered the French Revolution. This crisis was due to war debts : the seven years war and the American Revolution war. But it will give France much better strategic conditions in Europe. And if France performed better...

But if I don’t miss a detail, his judicial reform’s goal and legal effect was that the Parlement of Paris, which was nothing more than a judicial appeal court but claimed it was a legislative body because it had the same denomination as the British Parliament, could no longer oppose the royal...

A very short answer. In my opinion : no. Maupeou’s reforms concerned the judicial system. He shut down the former judicial system which was held by nobles and a part of the bourgeoisie and used to block acts of the executive power (the king’s Acts and executive orders). So although getting rid...

That’s an understatement. Of course some nukes will not be neutralized and will be launched, noticeably against the invasion fleet. That’s what nukes are made for : deterrence. The only thing that can be done against nuclear powers is a mix of sanctions and saber rattling. Just consider North...

It won’t happen for several reasons. This was a limited war and Bavaria and Saxony did not have the means to gain total control of all these territories. Even if they had, wars were limited wars and the diplomacy in that time always aimed at limited results. Hungary was lawful to the Habsburgs...

The result will be a rather swift total and crushing defeat because the German economy and society were beginning to collapse in the autumn of 1918. Casualties on the Entente side will be much lower. And the political result will probably be a partition of Germany. The southern States will...

This was the case until the 1880’s. No more in the 1910’s. In 1914, France’s population was barely 40 million people. Germany’s was 67 million. This is because of such an imbalance that Germany thought it could bully France with an ultimatum to drop the Russian and surrender its border...

This is very debatable. More recent history has proven that soldiers and people living under a tyrannical regime don’t like receiving bombs either, be they « liberation intended » bombs or « democratic » bombs. And in these situations, it is very easy for the tyrannical regime to claim it is...

He just had to set up a false flag attack by German troops wearing French uniforms, which he did with Poland to claim he had a casus belli.

And it was literally written in my Kampf but just as a precondition to conquering the lebensraum in Eastern Europe.

Your hypothesis 1 is ASB unless Britain is invaded. As controversial as Halifax may have been, he was neither an idiot nor a traitor. No decent Prime minister would pay such overpriced terms given what the military situation was in July/August 1940. And if anyway Halifax acted in such a way, he...

Hungary always remained outside the HRE although being ruled by Habsburgs for centuries. France will remain out of the HRE.