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| bio | website | quantdev.blog.co.uk |
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| age | 33 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 7 months |
| seen | May 13 at 16:40 | |
| stats | profile views | 7 |
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Dec 15 |
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Why was the Western Front so static in World War I? @FelixGoldberg They needed armour, doors opening to the front so that the soldiers could immediately run out of the boat and stability in shore water. |
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Oct 25 |
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Was the US Navy larger in 1917, and if so, why? I'm not sure if the US has the only blue water navy in the world. Both France and the UK can project naval power across the globe, although at much smaller scale. The UK did it during the Falkland War, for example. See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… |
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Oct 25 |
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Why did Hitler declare war on the USA? Lend-lease was not an act of war. |
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Oct 5 |
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Does the number of legs in the air of a horse statue indicate how its rider died? @Sardathrion But that kills the humour. |
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Oct 1 |
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Why did Operation Market Garden go ahead when the allies knew German armor was in the area? Another person warning against following the original plan of attack was Polish general Sosabowski. |
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Jul 24 |
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What would be the problem if Turkey admits Armenian Massacre? Republic of Turkey is the successor of the Ottoman Empire. |
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Jul 24 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @DVK Coming back to the topic: why do you think that Afghans need US help to develop their gold resources? Gold is not going to disappear from Aghanistan if it is excavated later, by their own mining companies once they are developed. |
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Jul 24 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @DVK "A few of my best friends are Jews" |
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Jul 24 |
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Was the Titanic tragedy at least partly avoidable? @mgb True, but undoubtedly the class differences also played a role. |
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Jul 24 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @DVK What is certain is that the opium trade surged after the Americans arrived: online.wsj.com/article/… |
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Jul 24 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @DVK "Note that they didn't steal a working mine from poor natives." Of course it's not about the mine itself, but the gold mined therein. By taking over the resources they prevent the Afghan nation from mining it independently in the future. (Of course your racist assumption is that Afghans would never be able to do it by themselves, right?) |
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Jul 23 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @DVK You wrote: "never mind that only an idiot would assume they intended to get any resources out of Vietnam or Afghanistan". Well, they did. |
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Jul 23 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @DVK It is not true that the US did not at least try to extract resources from Afghanistan. American companies (JP Morgan, backed by Pentagon) were looking for gold there, for example: management.fortune.cnn.com/2011/05/11/… |
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Jul 23 |
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Why doesn't Russia maintain significant numbers of Aircraft carriers? @Luke Do you really need sources to point out that Russia is more land-locked than the USA? |
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Jul 20 |
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Why was the US so against Japanese aggression in China but did nothing about Germany in Europe? "It's something like 55 miles from Siberia across the Bering Strait to Alaska." - Were there ports which didn't freeze in winter in both Eastern Siberia and Alaska? |
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Jul 19 |
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Why was the US so against Japanese aggression in China but did nothing about Germany in Europe? "On the other hand, an Axis victory scenario would probably have involved a Japanese fleet convoying a victorious German army from Siberia across the Pacific to Alaska and British Columbia." -- This army would be doomed. I can't imagine successfully supplying such an invasion army across an OCEAN. |
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Jul 17 |
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Why was the Irish War of Independence in 1918 successful when other revolts failed? According to Wikipedia: "The number of Irish deaths in the British Army recorded by the registrar general was 27,405, a casualty rate of 14%, roughly in line with the rest of the British forces." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland_and_World_War_I#Casualties |
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Jul 16 |
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Why are the police never responsible for guarding the Head of the State? Why under the Treasury? |
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Jul 13 |
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What went wrong with India's scientific development as a society? Europe had gold and silver. |
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Jul 2 |
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What factors led to the rise of political parties in the United States? Are there any nonpartisan parties? It sounds like "powdered water" to me. |
