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In exchange for the Russians withdrawing their knife to our throats.

It is true the Jupiter nuclear-tipped missiles were obsolete and that their job could be done better by the Polaris submarine-launched ICBM. And that Turkey was, at the time, insisting on their deployment for political reasons. And keeping them in Turkey long term was bad because they would be...

John F. Kennedy Assassination Conspiracy Theories. Yes, there are some weird things about it: It was the assassination of a US President, there are bound to be all sorts of weird things (Like Jack Ruby up and killing Oswald). But most of these conspiracy theories presume far too much about...

That and the Axis had Italy on their side. They might as well have done without. Other pet peeves: -That the Native Americans were some kind of innocent child-like nature worshipers with Gaia magic before the Europeans came is absurd. My degree is in anthropology, I studied the Anasazi of the...

I think "The Axis Powers could have won World War II" arguments in general annoy me. Germany, Japan and Italy combined barely matched a quarter (at best!) of the industrial might of the US, USSR, the British Empire and the rest of the Allies. That is me being extremely generous. They had nowhere...

What are myths and misconceptions of history that you hate? This is the thread to complain about them in! Columbus was not trying to prove the world was round: He was seeking a shorter route to India and China for trade and ran into the Americas. He also studied the calculations Eratosthenes...