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Seriously, we have threads for Russia, China, India and NATO, but not the biggest of them all - USA? It deserves the thread of it's own, so here it is. And I'm starting it with something that is sign of the times. New West Point mission statement omits "Duty, Honor, Country"

If Richard I, did not die of his wound at Chalous and instead lived for another decade, without fathering a heir, would upon his death the crown go to John Lackland or Arthur of Brittany? OTL Arthur was skipped due to being too young and in hands of French king. But as an adult and having...

Let's face it, they have been increasing the last few years. One of the biggest reasons is managerialism, in order for numbers to look good in quarterly reports to share holders, expenses like maintenance get continuously slashed, outsourced to outside contractors - usually the cheapest ones...

Complex Systems Won’t Survive the Competence Crisis The gist is that forced diversity is eroding the competence of people running and maintaining complex systems that enable us to live first world experience. In short when you criteria for hiring and promoting people is race/gender/orientation...

During the 80's Yugoslavia decided that it needs to replace it's fleet of MiG-21 fighters and it needs to be domestically manufactured plane. According to some sources from exYu there were negotiations with State Department and everything was finalised for full F-20 license, but then Yugoslavian...

I remember the days of yore when forums were full of such threads, but internet search options kind of ruined most options. Let us try location search then. The rules: One guess at a time, if your first guess is wrong you will have to wait for another member to make a guess before you can...

It's the undercurrent of degeneracy that has been running through the upper classes for a long time, gradually getting stronger through the years. The need for competence and unified front against the common menace of communism kept the current down, but once the threat from the unifying enemy...

Do you like history? Of course you do, why else would you be here. Anyway...no I'm not offering a self insert you greedy cunt. My offer is of sightseeing tour. Five events in history, each can be spectated for three hours, experiencing full sights, sounds and smells of history, which is why I...

Heresies of Modernity Let us look at some heresies that debunk and invert modernity: Equality creates mediocrity: in Natural Selection, creatures that achieve endure; in human groups, everyone is subsidized so they endure at the expense of the achievers. This produces a downward spiral toward...

Something I came up with during the supposedly spooky October ------- ''So this is the site?'' His new superior looked definitely disappointed. ''Yes, this is the exclusion zone.'' ''Any clue to what it is here? Any trace of installations, roads or something like that?'' ''No roads going...

It is 23d April 1642 and Charles, with his numerous escort is trying to get entrance to Hull, but is denied by the governor sir John Hotham. After considerable back and forth Charles, with gritted teeth, accepts the earlier Hotham's offer of entrance with an escort of twelve men. Hotham was...

Inspired by discussion on complaining about SB. My idea is that Cholcis is strongly inspired by Islam which is reflected when Lorgar writes Lectitio Devinitatus, so we could still have the beloved gothic art style, but society would be shaped in a way that is familiar to Memri fans. So God...

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-weed-became-new-oxycontin-marijuana-psychosis-addiction Decades ago marijuana was considered harmless and still has such reputation, but the stuff that is smoked now has little relation to what was smoked 50 years ago, modern day hybrid...

In 1991 CompuServe offered to buy out AOL which was struggling ever since it started as Control Video. The CEO Jim Kimsey was all for accepting the offer and washing his hands on the most difficult job he ever had (he served two combat tours in Vietnam as a ranger officer), but his protege Steve...

Eat Mutton, Wear Wool, Heat with Wood: Traditional Ways to Stop Wildfires – The European Conservative Back before industrialization, a lot more land was grazed on than today and evergreen forest usually started at 1500 meters (varies by local climate). People used pretty much everything from...

Apparently, after finishing the movie, the test audiences found it so bad that they calculated, that the release wouldn't even cover the cost of distribution.

As the title say, during the August of 1917, the repeated rainstorms turned the blasted ground into swamp and the overcast skies prevented the ground from drying. This in turn led to much higher British/Commonwealth casualties and offensive had to be halted until the ground dried, restarting...

I have heard elsewhere on the internet that this decision could be used as a mayor precedent to strike down many of the rules that various agencies came up with in the last decades. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/20-1530_n758.pdf

I'll start with my top five Blackadder Monty Python Flying Circus Sledge Hammer Yes Minister/Prime Minister Fawlty Towers

Starting with some of the most common ones from the Battle of Bulge: Kampfgruppe Peiper did not make the deepest advance during the Battle of the Bulge, that honour goes to the 2nd Panzer division of the mundane Wehrmacht, with 116th being close second. German plans were not based on capture of...