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Alternate history is a nice thought exercise, but one shouldn't take it serious. It can be a lot of fun to speculate about the historical what if questions, but you never know all the necessary factors to make a workable theory. Outside the recorded facts of which government made what decision...

That is largely true. Austria was the dominate power of the HRE for most of the time and a european power for longer than Prussia, though this was mainly due to the connections and status of the Habsburg dynasty, especially with the Spanish empire. Maybe I'll get into this sometime later, but...

EU's full ban on Russian coal to be pushed back to mid-August -sources EU to add 4-month wind-down for current coal contracts Initial plan was for three, but Germany pushed to extend EU set to agree on sanctions after tweaks, including ports BRUSSELS, April 7 (Reuters) - European Union envoys...

Pelosi to Visit Taiwan in First Such Trip for 25 Years, FNN Says House speaker reportedly plans to travel to island on Sunday Trip is sign of support for Taipei amid Russian war in Ukraine By Samson Ellis and Cindy Wang April 7, 2022, 4:33 AM GMT+2Updated onApril 7, 2022, 11:33 AM GMT+2 U.S...

Hoping you can reach the people you want to, and to make them understand what you believe will happen with NI. Keep attention on it when you can, the war in Ukraine isn't going away that quickly To be honest, I have no real idea about the military power of the loyalists and their capabilities...

Eh, that's a somewhat hard to define matter. Yes and no, but it would take a long, long post to clear up the differences between austrians and germans and their respective histories.

The Wehrmacht build upon multiple things during the 1930s, it was by no means starting anew and rebuilding from scratch. The “Reichswehr” of the Weimar Republic was conceptualized to only allow the best, most competent and most promising soldiers into its ranks. It was build to be an army of...

Germans face drastic price rises if EU bars Russian gas, E.ON Germany chief says -RND Reuters BERLIN, April 5 (Reuters) - German consumers must prepare for drastic electricity and gas price increases if the European Union cuts off Russian gas, E.ON (EONGn.DE) Germany's chief executive said on...

‘Wrong about Putin’: Did Germany and France turn blind eye to threat from Russia? Issued on: 05/04/2022 - 22:02 Russian President Vladimir Putin presents flowers to Germany's Angela Merkel during her last visit as chancellor at the Kremlin in Moscow on August 20, 2021. © AP handout, Kremlin pool...

This needs to be seen in the larger context of the Great War. At this point in 1918, the german spring offensive was on it's last legs, it ran out of steam(that is oil) and failed to achieve it's objectives, only managing to get teasingly close to their goals. The k.u.k forces also had launched...

Hopefully it doesn't come to that. Really, really don't want to see this conflict restart.

Are you just going to leave this completely out of context, as if the previous 4 years had never happened? The crimes committed by the germans were manifold worse than what the russians did in retaliation, and this is not debatable. Without german help and diplomacy, the ottoman empire would...

This would probably be one of the ways Taiwan can survive. For this decade at least, though I doubt that they will.

That's the thing, both sides claim the territory of the other. It's the birthplace of the Austronesian culture, which is one of the world's most extraordinary ones to boot. The japanese saw it as one of their most strategically important possessions in the 50 odd years they had, and it has a...

No U.S. Troops Will Be Punished for Deadly Kabul Strike, Pentagon Chief Decides The military initially defended the strike, which killed 10 civilians including seven children, but ultimately called it a tragic mistake. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/13/us/politics/afghanistan-drone-strike.html...

Taiwan was previously inhabited by the Austronesian peoples, the Han chinese there now are occupiers on their own, doesn't matter if it's Quing, ROC or PRC. Austronesian is a minority language that's nearly been eradicated. The problem with Taiwan and changing their culture from being chinese...

The ROC still claims the rest of China though, Korea never claimed the entirety of Mainland China. If they abandon chinese as their language, then they'd abandon their claims on the mainland, and in this sense, give the CCP an even better casus belli. They'd be seen as an occupying force on...

That is very good advice... hope everything goes well for you though! Should I make to your age, then I'll keep that in mind, but there are no guarantees in life, so I think it's best to appreciate what one has, it could always go worse in some way