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  1. wcv215

    What is the Marxist explanation for why Germany was richer and more powerful than France and Great Britain in the 20th century?

    Funny how that resulted in a lack of quality.
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    Why do people assume the Confederacy will liberalize post-war?

    Since I’ve mostly been addressing what I think are untruths about the South during the war, I would note that I don’t think its going to be sunshine an rainbows either. The South had problems, similar problems other areas like it had. Not insurmountable, but still serious. The largest one I...
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    Why do people assume the Confederacy will liberalize post-war?

    It did ‘t hurt that the South had badly overproduced in the years leading to the War. Cotton warehouses in Britain were full and production continued just from reserves for a long while. There was also the complication that the cloth market was absolutely glutted. And of course cotton that got...
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    Why do people assume the Confederacy will liberalize post-war?

    It does however give the power to regulate such commerce, such as by eventually adopting a standard rail gauge. The problem would lie in funding such a mandate without central government resources.
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    Why do people assume the Confederacy will liberalize post-war?

    That problem wasn’t unique to the south. It was a national issue, and would not be solved until late. The South was arguably less bad in this regard, as some 7000 miles of its 9,000 miles of track was in a single gauge, 5 feet. Also not unique. Erie infamously fought tooth and nail against...
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    Why do people assume the Confederacy will liberalize post-war?

    Was it inefficient though? Economies pf scale worked pretty well in favor of large slave plantations. Slave labor was arguably more efficient than say free northern farmers per capita. Slave industry was also at least as profitable as free factories in the north. This was certainly an argument...
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    Could Yamamoto have pulled off an even more devastating PH attack?

    i do agree he has plenty of decent of information. The problem is what he does with it, and what information isn’t included. In the Hawaii[1] example I listed he provided a source about how many men were on Hawaii as a defense force as an argument about how Japan didn’t need as many soldiers to...
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    Could Yamamoto have pulled off an even more devastating PH attack?

    To anyone watching, see? No glenn, strapping anti-aircraft guns to river barges to fight the Royal Navy is NOT a better idea. Taking the Isle of Wight is not a good stepping stone for an invasion of the British islands. A single German soldier setting foot on British soil will not lead to...
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    Could Yamamoto have pulled off an even more devastating PH attack?

    Given that you have a history of deliberately understating US defenses of Hawaii, have you considered maybe they’re right and you’re just wrong? Like you are in your constant insistence that Sealion was actually a good idea.
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    Why do people assume the Confederacy will liberalize post-war?

    One thing to note is that the reason slavery wasn’t used in industry more in tge south wasn’t because it wasn’t profitable. It was because it wasn’t AS profitable. Cotton was so profitable it strangled every other industry, every other profession in some ways. Everyone wanted to be a planter...
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    Why do people assume the Confederacy will liberalize post-war?

    There’s this weird jump a lot of people make where “less industrialized than the Union” = “no industry”. The South was more industrialized then 99% of the world, including most of Europe, before the Civil War. The Union was just an even bigger outlier. That then combines with this idea slavery...
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    Could an expansion-minded post-Civil War United States have been able to challenge the hegemony of the British Empire by 1900?

    I’d also add that British investment was HUGE driver of American economic growth in the latter 19th century. If the US is actively antagonizing the British and acting like a power that seeks to challenge Britain and potentially conquer British North America, that investment won’t be as large or...
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    Could Yamamoto have pulled off an even more devastating PH attack?

    That was true of most of Japan’s conquests tbh. The idea was to create a fortified barrier through which the United States could (or would) not fight through and that this system would be practical unloseable. Islands would be able to fight off things like air raids. The biggest and most...
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    What Would Have Been the Reaction if Britain Had Executed the American Revolutionaries?

    Looking at how captured American POWs were treated…who knows, and oh yes.
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    Could Yamamoto have pulled off an even more devastating PH attack?

    I have a question. If it was as easy as you seem to think for battleships to take out shore defenses, to the point you think they can’t even “muss up” a Kongo, then why did the navy you want to perform this operation think that doing so under virtually ANY circumstances was impossible? At...
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    The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown
    Threadmarks: Part 108: The Greek Revolt

    Part CVIII: The Greek Revolt To understand what’s about to happen it’s important to understand how the Caesari at this stage funded their reign, how they held power, and the improved Imperial position, especially in the Balkans. Most Imperial funding was provided by the standard land tax...
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    How would a Germanophile USA look today?

    …what? The American industrial base dwarfed Germany’s even by WWI. The economy was drastically larger. German industry was inferior in pretty much every way to American from the 20th century until after WWII.
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    The Eternal Empire: Emperor Maurice dies before being overthrown

    Julius II went into revolt on Christmas Day.
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    How would Confederate Arizona be developed if the Confederacy won the Civil War?

    Quite. States rights was, and always had been, a fig leaf adapted to defend slavery. The minute it ceases to need that niche filled the slavers will discard it in favor of some other ideology dedicated to slavery.
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    AHC: John Adams is Remembered as a Great President

    100% this. Hypocrisy is one of Jefferson’s defining characteristics.
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