Very funny to do that to (seemingly) Gaddafi. Like yes we love an ideologically incoherent strongman who a different political flavors and public images at various points in his career but who lost every military conflict he engaged in
Roll the dice for the next major crisis Shebhaz Sharif will have to face. He is a man cursed by God to suffer and muddle through crises he doesn’t have the influence to manage
It’s awesome how much Al Green loves doing this stuff. Genuinely great to see him being consistent, public, and focused in on disrupting and delegitimizing Trump’s State of the Union. Second year in a row he‘s been thrown out! God-willing there won’t be one next year for him to be kicked out of!
The Death of the Wehrmacht by Robert Citino:
A @sodrock.bsky.social recommendation. The German way of war is becoming really good at fast moving encirclement operations, but for no clear operational goal. Gambling at the highest level. Logistics and defense are lame. Love the Rommel slander as well
A History of the Habsburg Empire by Robert A Kann:
extremely lucky used bookshop find. An incredible dense but extremely rewarding history. The limits of centralizing imperial ideology, and German and Magyar chauvinism, to ensure a viable multinational empire was one of my main takeaways.
Creating a 2026 reading history to keep track and jot down ideas about the books I’ve read!
The entire plot about the scummy North Carolina businessman was a waste and ended with “love your family 🥺” the three friends plot ended with “being conservative is great!” And the plot-line of the guy revenging his dad ended in “the evil rich guy was just not evil!” Just a waste of time
The third season was so nakedly ideological and piddly I was so mad at the final episode resolving all the plot lines in the dumbest way possible
I wouldn’t totally agree with electoral alliances only working in those two cases. India has a very long tradition of pre-electoral alliances for smd FPTP, which could work in the UK. There are as many alliance duds as in the CRA in Japan, but some can be extremely successful.
It’d also be interesting to see articles on the state of popular history on YouTube and other platforms as well. Like people interested are more likely to watch a random video on say Stalingrad by The Wehrmacht Enjoyer about how they could have won Stalingrad than say, anything Citino has written
I’m going to start crying. He never accomplished his dream of becoming Chief Minister…I’m weeping…all that backstabbing and scheming and high drama and he goes out like this? Truly God is on Sharad Pawar’s side
With the electoral rise of Braun on the far-right, Poland has actually existing 1890s politics
I loved reading Mussolini and his Generals by John Gooch (a really excellent book!) because every time Douhet came up I thought of @sodrock.bsky.social and how people have been having the same debate about strategic air campaigns for a hundred years lol
Any reason it’s a particularly bad bookshelf in this case? I can’t make any out in the image
Iirc from Sky his stuff with Joshua and how that related to Joshua’s relationship with Estelle was some of the best stuff in the game. Even in spite of the weaknesses of Cold Steel I still love the series so much
Ok but consider Giliath Osborne is a really cool name and he’s Erebonian Bismarck and so just super smart
Thank you!
How dare you, she has sword autism she just wants to train!! Rean doesn’t deserve her!
Rean would not survive Erebonia’s version of Me Too. His ass is getting cancelled for dating his students
I’m on the final dungeon of CS2 and really enjoying that aspect! I really enjoy the gameplay loop! The side characters and the setting are super cool! He’s just such a boring part of it compared to Estelle’s motivations and arc (even though the step sibling aspect is…unique lol)
Thank you for this, and how does Third Battle of Yrpes fit into this as well given the also heavy casualties? Any books you’d recommend btw I always love WW1 recommendations!
Maybe this is why I’ve been procrastinating finishing CS2 for like 3 years. I like the rest of the cast a lot and what the game is going for, he’s just such a wet noodle lol. I’m excited to try the crossbell stuff though, should I play CS 3 and 4? I’ve played (and loved) Sky 1 and 2
Can you explain why the Somme offensive was more decisive to “breaking the back” of the German army in the West compared to like, Verdun?
It really is darkly funny that Russia tried this exact op and failed so hard they’ve taken a million casualties. Who would have thunk it’d be hard!
WEEEEEEEE
I LOVE STATE COLLAPSE
I LOVE POWER VACCUMS
I LOVE ARMED GROUPS COMPETING TO CENTRALIZE THEIR POWER IN THE ABSENCE OF A LEGITIMATE MONOPOLY ON VIOLENCE
I LOVE THE SPREAD OF REGIONAL INSTABILITY
I T C A N O N L Y G O O D H A P P E N
His teacher was a collaborator with the pro-Spartan oligarchy which was made up of many Socrates’ own pupils He was part of an anti-democratic faction in Athenian politics! It wasn’t like Socrates was apolitical, he had genuine political opinions “corrupting” the youth to anti-democratic viewpoints
Given every industrialized state post 2000 has seen the rise of right wing populism playing off the same themes, social base, and ideology, yea America’s version of this was inevitable in some way. Just the form it took, as in all cases, is contingent on historical circumstance.
I’m legit surprised they managed to come together like this. Given how hardline and radical Raj is and how Uddhav has spent his entire career moderating (what’s left of his) SHS, maybe this would have been successful 10 years ago, but now? At least the civic polls are finally being fucking held lol
Several Union generals were straight up foreign born! I wonder according to his logic if the thousands of escaped slaves who fought for the Union even count for him, since they were “fleeing” their homes to fight in a different army…
The Wanki Emperor, looking dapper as fuck
In this house we thank the Wanli Emperor every day for putting an end to the imperialist war of that evil monkey Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Thank you for your service Son of Heaven
