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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:26 am
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| You need to take somewhat broader perspective. Losing battle or two and winning a war is still winning. No. You need to take a reality check. Britain won both the 1916 Easter Uprising and the Irish Civil War of 1922-23. It'll only take a few moments of research for you to see this. Unless, that is,... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:17 am
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| I see, I see. So, It was like the outcome of the American Revolution? The Americans and Irish got to form republics because of the generosity and charity of the crown? It was all a merry mix-up, eh wot? The Irish republicans lost both the 1916 Easter Uprising and the Irish Civil War. The British wo... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:13 am
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| No, they didn't. The British won both the 1916 Easter Rising (which saw the surrender of the Irish republicans and the executions of most of them) and the subsequent Irish Civil War of 1922-23. The Irish republicans lost both. ... hence the absence of an Irish Republic. British education? It used t... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 10:12 am
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| One would think that, if the German navy never even came close to threatening the British one, there would not have been such a controversy in Canada about us and the other imperial dominions chipping in to the British Empire's defence, much less helping Britain build these new dreadnought machines... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:35 am
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| I will note that during that period, the British turned their weapons on their Irish neighbours at time when many thousands of Irish soldiers were serving in the British Army in France. The whole of Ireland was a part of the United Kingdom at the time and British soldiers "turned their weapons... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2014 9:28 am
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| Except for the times that they weren't, like all the Boer women and children they starved to death in the first modern concentration camps ever built by the British. Bullshit. What about the reconcentrados (reconcentration camps) set up by the Spanish military in Cuba during the Ten Years' War (186... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:42 pm
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Jabberwalker Jabberwalker: The British soldiers WERE a little less harsh with civilians (and POWS)
... as long as they were white, anyway.
Not that you've got any proof of that.
By the way, it's useless transferring modern standards of behaviour and ways of thinking onto the past. |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:38 pm
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| Everything you've said runs counter to what most respected historians have been saying for over half a century. No, it doesn't. Most historians agree with me and disagree with you. You've been schooled in the revised Blackadder, Left-wing version of WWI history that is totally at odds with what act... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:29 pm
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| Ah, yes but Tommy Atkinson wasn't skewering Belgian babies with a pitchfork. Great bit of propaganda that was, coming from the side that didn't care too much at all about their own artillery barrages mincemeating any Belgian and French civilians that unfortunately got between them and the Germans. ... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:25 pm
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| The only one being a revisionist is you I'm not being a revisionist. You and your mates are. because you're deliberately ignoring that both Britain and France were as complicit as the Germans in forging that disastrous arrangement of alliances that blew up in everyone's faces. The alliances played ... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 12:04 pm
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| Actually if you look at who started what, we were on the side that kicked it off with the assassination. Like it or not, by the time it's all boiled down we took the side of the lone aggressor in WWI. Bullshit. The aggressor in WWI was Germany. Serbia starting WWI is nothing more than a modern myth... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 11:58 am
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| And Marussia runs a Ferrari engine; doesn't make it a Ferrari. People are getting confused. Ferrari, for example, in F1 is not the make of the car. It's the name of the team. A McClaren car is so-called because it competes for the McClaren team, not because it's an actual McClaren car. As it happen... |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 11:49 am
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JaredMilne JaredMilne: The Treaty of Versailles attributed all of the blame for the war to Germany
And quite rightly, too. |
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Forum: Military & War Topic: The World Wars-Perspectives On The Reasons For War |
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2014 11:48 am
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| WW2 came about because France and Britain insisted on retribution at the end of WW1, not a lasting peace. WWII came about because of Hitler and the Nazis, and Germany's invasion of Poland. Britain entered WWI a week after it started because Germany invaded Belgium. Germany started both World Wars, ... |
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Forum: Current Events Topic: Whisky Bible snubs Scots, names Japanese spirit best in the |
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Posted: Sun Nov 09, 2014 10:41 am
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raydan raydan: You ever stop to think that we might be reacting to you?
Yeah. It's because you're trolls. You and your little mates started trolling this thread. Not me. |
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