The History of Europe: Every Year

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godelski · 2024-06 · Reference

It's often forgotten how much conflict there was in Europe (and most of the world) in the 18th and 19th centuries. How this was fairly "normal" It's really forgotten how relatively peaceful our time is. I'm not complaining, in fact, I want to protect it. And that means we can't forget what was. [VIDEO]

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svilen_dobrev · 2023-06 · Reference

> as experienced by people living at the time there's another twist of all this. Communication back in time has been.. mostly missing - and slow if any. So people in two distant cities could be on two different planets, with similar outcome :) Seems those "linear" timelines, put in that context, look more like bitemporal things.. so its possible that city B learned that city A was in war when that war actualy ended, or later.. and reaction (if any) might be misplaced.. As of maps of "rivers".. that's similar to how people migrations - or army moves are shown. btw, there's this history-map of europe 1-year-per-second: [VIDEO] and also this, i don't know are they of same author: [LINK]

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godelski · 2023-02 · Reference

> So, tell me again about why everything is the fault of "The West", including all the western countries who have never attacked anyone, in your mind? Not the person you're responding to, but I think it is important to recognize that the US is practically the military of The West (and some more like Japan and Korea), or rather those on the side of democracy in the cold war. Lots of this is because after a bunch of very big wars in Europe (Napoleonic Wars, WWI, WWII) -- and a bunch of smaller wars -- the countries essentially decided that it was best to have smaller militaries and out source it to somewhere that didn't have a long history of border disputes. Helped that the US already had a strong military, were an ocean away, and their bordering neighbors aren't major competitors. On the flip side, the USSR was essentially this same thing but for the communist side (till China started to rise in power). Some military historians suggest that the rise of super powers was a big component for the long peace. There's a lot to this history that's way more complicated than can be put in a singular comment and involves much more of the globe than just Europe (even the US's, Mexico's, and Canada's independences rely and exacerbated on these conflicts). People use this history to write a wide variety of narratives. Long Peace: [LINK] Borders in Europe from 1000AD to now: [VIDEO]

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