Comments by "jorge luis barrios mur" (@jorgebarriosmur) on "HistoryLegends"
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And we spaniards are a mix from almost everything.......
We have Iberian and Celtic "native" people, Cartaghinians (descendants from the semitic people originated in what is now Saudi Arabia), Greeks, Latins (in the roman conquest), Germanic tribes (when Rome fell), more Celtic people (that fleed from Britain when the Anglo-Saxons defeated the Romano-british resitance there, and setteld in northern Spain), more Semitic and North-african people (in the islamic conquest), more Gemanic people, (when the Franks and the people from what is now Germany came to fight in the "Reconquista" and to repopulate the conquered land), plus a permanent small but persitent jewish population (from the Roman conquest, till 1492, although some of them converted to catolithism to stay in Spain, and their DNA is now part of our DNA).
Hell, we even have some 20 japanese diplomats, in 1500 and something that didn`t make it back to Japan and settled in the south of Spain, taking spanish wives......
And this is only the mixture of "historical" times.......
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@Cayenne Captain The romans. It were the romans...... but, as a Spaniard, I AM PROUD of my celtic, greek, latin, islamic, jewish, and germanic roots. PROUD!
Don´t try to shame me, or any spaniard by using our origin against us, because it makes us what we are, and WE ARE F......PROUD OF IT....... (although, being humans, I have to admit that we did some very nasty things in our history)
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The news in our main -media seems very similar to the news in Germany in 1945, where the allied advanced in every front, the country was in rumbels, and the german army had lost almost all of their combat-capacities, and yet, german media ignored all this facts and focused on meaningless achievements, like a bunch of teenagers delaying the advance of an american aromured colum for several hours.......
EVERY TIME an uckranian artillery piece hits something, it is celebrated like if they had won another battle of Stalingrad, yet, the simple fact that the russians continue their advance, and the ukranians are retreating, is simply ignored......
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That will be a serious problem. Whenever this wa......sorry, whenever this special military operation ends, Russia will have 500.000 expirienced, well trained and battlehardened soldiers, a booming weapons production, and an economy that thrives in war-times (soposedly they are reaching full employment, wages are rising, and even non-specialized workers in the military productions sector are beeing constantly offered better conditions by competing firms, eager to meet their production-objectives).
For Russia, it will be more profitable to start another wa.....sorry, another special military operation, then revert to a peace-time-economy.......
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The same happens with spanish colonisation of America.
It was just buisness as usual: The one with the bigger stick came and took it all.....like the indigenous people had been doing for thousends of years.
Indeed, the conquest of Mexico was only posible because all its neighbours hate them with passion for beeing an imperialistic and warmongering bunch of duchbags, and thougt the spanish were a better alternative ( a big mistake, in my opinion, but understandable).
As for the Incas, they just had a blody hell of a civil war when the spaniards arrived (and of course the waves of desease that preceeded them, erasing up to 90% of population in some cases, and causing what we only can describe as an apocaliptic scenario), where people were slaughtered day in and day out, without the intervention of any white conquerer. (By the way, the Inca imperium, was not build with nice words and diplomacy, it was build over mountains of corpses, using, more or less, the SAME methods that the spaniards used centurys later to conquer them)
As for the rest, they were mostly loose tribes or confederations, who hade no problem raiding their neighbours if they needed it or just were in the mood.......
Was it nice what my spanish ancestors did to my indigenous ancestors? Hell no! But it was just the way things were handeled then.......we cannot judge actions of the past with modern views.........
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NATO advisers had stated that if Russia keeps it war production on their actuall level, they could build up their army at the full strength they had before the war in four or perhaps five years after the end of the war in Ukraine, and that with battlehardened and expirienced troops
Meanhwile the amunition stocks in the west are empty, and UK could probably field 40 working tanks in case of a full scale war, while
the german army is a shadow of what it was in the cold war, Belgium has aparently disbanded its last tank-brigades and donated the tanks to Germany, and the rest of western countries are not in any better shape.
Yes, there are plans to revert this situation ( for example, Poland plans to be THE ARMY of Europe, in terms of size and combat capabilities), but its development can take DECADES, given the actual industrial basis of NATO-countries........ and the USA is overstreched, and who knows what will happen if they have to fight a conventional war in Taiwan and Europe at the same time.....
The only thing we have left is nuclear disausion.
What could go possibly wrong
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Having served nowhere, and beeing barely able to swim, I would say that your opinion hugely owerweights mine, buy if I may, I would want to point out that the Chinese navy is not chalenging (yet) US-global naval dominance, wich would require, efectively, a logistic-chain that right now, only the US is able to deploy.........China seems to be targeting "only" a local superiority, not very far away from their coasts.
The logistic-requirements for that task, although probably still brutal, are mostly only a fraction of what you need to dominate the seven seas.......
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There is a unit already specialized in the integration of soldiers from diferent origins, to conform an effective combat- force.
I am speaking, of course, of the forgein french legion.
This model could conform the core of an european army, althoug, it would be probably necesary to switch from french lenguage to english (a sensible question for many french, who tend to think, that if you were capable to learn english, the only reason you do not speak french, is because you hate this lenguage, culture, and all french-speaking people).
This core of multinational combat-ready troops, that should include of course strategic transport capabilities, could then be complemented by national units, whose training should include learning english to a level enough to speak and write it fluently.
Esentiall would be also, that not EVERY country should have ALL TYPE of units. Unecesary duplicity is one of the big problems of the european armys right now, while nobody cares about other necesary capacities ,like the previous mentioned strategic depolyment capacities ( aka big f*cking transport planes), or aircraft-carrier groups, wich europe has not enough, now that the british left the union......
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