Knock yourself out kiddo: http://books.google.fi/books?id=91YymsCw5DIC&dq=history+of+syria&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=senE71An6u&sig=YYEOBMCU9EWEiy6tio_VR84W7Cs&hl=fi&ei=t8cGS4rGN5D64AbD7MXCCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=&f=false

Or if you just want a brief summary: http://www.syriagate.com/Syria/about/general/history.htm

ancient
A wealthy trading hub, that has been fought over due to its strategic placement since the time of Ozymandias.
Modern
It was a french mandate after the French and British carved up the bloated corpse of the ottoman empire. initially Syria and the Lebanon were one, however, the french thought that the Christians deserved the beach front property, and created Lebanon. The mandate effectively ended with the fall of France. Since then, the Syrians have been trying to get back what they see as their land, both overtly and covertly (mainly the latter). As Israel deems them hostile, and because Lebanon is in a great position to launch an invasion of Israel. Israel is not going to let the Syrians own it.

ITT: People who don't know 'your' from 'you're'.

>>20105
What I meant by that was not why the area was conquered (also it wasn't as easy as you make it sound), but the character of certain Southern Balkan nations. While Slovenia and Croatia were incorporated into Austo-Hungaria, ostensibly Western Europe, had social reforms like the whole enlightenment process, Serbs, Montenegrins, Greeks, Albanians, etc. were still living under Turkish occupation with all the joys occupation brings.

>>20127

The ottoman empire kind of relied on the balkans. A shitload of viziers and generals all came from the balkans. Infact, already when the ottoman sultan fought and was defeated by Timur lenk the ones who deserted him were the turkish troops not the troops from the balkans.

The Ottoman empire wouldnt have been as powerful as it was if they merely occupied the balkans.

>>20127
What i tried to say is, Balkans were always a problem region. There were tons of fiefdoms harrassing each other before the Ottoman occupation, and even today, there's like 10 different countries in a relatively small area and their relationship are still kinda troubled..

I believe mid-Ottoman age (1600s) and Yugoslavian age are two golden ages Balkans saw..

Balkans, geographically speaking isn't a peninsula because it is wider than it is long. If you would count Balkans as a peninsula because it is surounded by water from 3 sides, you might as well count most of Europe as a peninsula.

>>20191
sure they would've surrendered. But we wanted them not only to surrender, but to lick our collective nutsack, and to scare the hell out of the rest of the world with our awesome power. Think deathstar.

>>20194
Well having shown the world that America rules it with an iron cock up everyone's collective ass we would need expand. Through absorbing former exhausted allies mainly England and France. Carving up Italy, Germany, and the Pacific into separate American colonies. Africa would be left relatively untouched as Americans don't like to dick around in the jungles, deltas, and deserts. The Middle East is cut up into various states that respect tribal and ethnic borders. And of course once one planet is taken under control a second or third would need to feel the pain. /fantasy

As for taking Russia? Why would anyone want to take over a large land mass of various warring tribes running around with Mosin Nagants and captured Nazi guns killing each other? Really it would be like Afghanistan or modern day Africa with no Kalashnikov rifles.

>>20146

>We didn't even need to drop the bombs. If we had used our naval force to completely blockade any foreign aid from Japan and our air force to burn all of their crops and major factories, when their people were starving in the streets they'd give up.

if it was that easy then why has no war ever in the history of war, been won without infantry on the ground?

>>20206
a land invasion of japan would've been pretty much the WORST thing the US could do, aside from dropping the nukes on itself...

also, the nukes weren't necesssary, japan surrendered because russia invaded manchuria, not because of some pointless and expected civillian casualties... they were nothing but america waving it's cock around at everyone until the russians developed the cvar.

the war was over before the nukes were dropped, japan simply didn't have the means to keep fighting, japan was nuked to send a message to stalin

>>20208
Dude, bro this will never happen. "Learn to live with small nuclear exchanges" what the hell, that is retarded.
Our generation is significantly different than most generations before it, in a lot of ways. I don't think there will be another large world conflict, nothing that's going to involve nuclear weapons.

I'd rather make sure they mention me specifically, than all this nonsense about generational generalization.

>>20214
LOL, wow thats actually a good comic...

99% of the ones ive seen on chans are horrible.

>>20214

>>20213

>I don't think there will be another large world conflict

that's what they said after ww1

no fascism isn't socialism, in nazi germany corporations were still privately owned, there was just much more planning by the state, its probably closer to french post war dirigisme than socialism

All labor that could be done by hand was made by law to be done by hand. Unemployment vanished.

fascists are right wing, socialists are left wing. see: http://www.politicalcompass.org/analysis2

If your asking specifically how they countered hyper inflation they scrapped their currency and essentially started over.

>>20153
Stalin wasn't socialist

The Constitution wasn't really "subsequent" to the Revolution.

The Articles of Confederation were subsequent to the Revolution.

You should know this. What kind of history are they teaching these days?

>>20150
subsequent doesn't have to mean "caused by", it can just mean "following in time"

history class: some white guys in wigs agreed to make a new nation founded on freedom but the angry brits didn't like it so there was a revolution and they kicked the brits out and murrika was born and freedom and democracy is good.

more or less. its very boring and whitewashed, but thank god i took an early american history class in college and learned more about how it really went down.

I second arguing in favor of Locke.

Montesquieu didn't believe a republic was plausible in large countries, but rather in minuscule territories based off the Italian city-state model. Although the framers obviously borrowed heavily from a lot of his ideas about a functioning representative democracy, they obviously disagreed with him on a vast amount of it. Monty preached the whole confederation of mini republics as the best form of governance, something the federalists completely disavowed. idk, hopefully you're citing the Federalist Papers extensively in your essay, as they're honestly the best window into the mindset of the creators of the US.

Locke is undoubtedly relevant more so in their arguments for revolution than in the shaping of the federal constitution.

Che Guevarra. We can't have free thinkers in this society!

Higher wages for degrading and literally backbreaking work? Pshaw.

>>20132

>madame Blavatsky

Bravo, sir. That is the possibly the most obscure reference I have seen on /his/. Also, she was a filthy Russian spy.

Jesus, Muhammed, and Neil Diamond

henry anslinger

biggest douche EVER

This cunt, Sophia Lvovna Perovskaya, is a good reason women shouldn't get involved in politics.
She had Czar Alexander II assassinated even though he was attempting to turn his nation into a republic. apparently that wasn't good enough, apparently there had to be bloodshed to legitimize such a transition. Think of what the 20th century would be like if she was never born.

>>20186
more like CANCERbury tales, haha u fag

One Thousand And One Nights.

Henry IV, by Shakespeare

'Titus Andronicus' by Shakespeare.
>>20186 >>20193 A second these options.
'A Wild Ride Through the Night' by Walter Moers.
>>20184 Oh and this.
Blarg too many books too read, so little tiem.
Also, watch the 'Seventh Seal', 'The Navigator', and 'Lancelot Du Lac'.

red badge of courage, Sindbad's adventures, shogun, for whom the bell tolls. apparently midnights children is good (I however, thought it was a pretentious piece of shit).

DICKS EVERYWHERE

DICKS EVERYWHERE

DICKS EVERYWHERE

where's the vision of Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin??
his "God and the State" is so inspiring.

There's a perfect book you MUST read about this issue:
Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm
by Murray Bookchin

It's a great comparison of classic anarchist thought and this degenerate poser anarchism of today.. explaining how and why it has became this way..

>>20104 Anyone else can see the similarities or is it just me? At least the same type of grin.

Mullattos are the new super race.

>>20107

Same as every other thread on /his/.

I enjoyed this thread.

sigh
spartan women, why, Helen of Troy
thread/

>>19791
The Americans stage a coup using the International Brigades and colonize Spain.

My Great Grandfather fought in the Spanish Civil War and that's all I can really see happening.

>>19791
There's no way the Left side could have won.
If they would have won, Communists, Anarchists and Democrats continue to fight each other.
Then after the fall of France they get blitzed by Fascist forces to gain access to Gibraltar and Colonial France.

>>19795
That's why all the places taken by the leftists immediately degenerated into violence.

>>19793

why are you on this fucking board if you are just going to say that?
fuck you.

sage for adding nothing to this thread.

>>19795

this pretty much

Civil war between CNT and other democratic/libertarian socialists against the Communist party backed by Stalin. Communists win because they have Russian support.

>>20099
Your words are true Comrade. Let us drink our vodka.

>>20100
Yes comrade let's drink our vodka, and CRUSH THE FACIST VIPERS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPKH4GHiihg

>>20070
so accurate Stalingrad veterans protested against it and wanted the Russian government to ban it

>>20099

>How the hell did Russia have so many troops in WWII

Out of a total population of 170 million, I think they could spare a few for military service.
>>20099
I know how to read Cyrillic, and this made my head hurt. Fuck you.

>>20128
Try reading it in English.