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the post ww2 world was created by strong men, it made the longest period of modern peace* and unparalleled prosperity in the western world, IE the good times. Then over the course of the good times the Industry was shipped out immigrants shipped in and the rights rolled back and the culture erroded all to extend the good times a little longer, thats the weak men being made by good times.
We are living in the final square my brethren, we are in the hard times, but if we dont give up or give in or succumb to hatred or despair then we will be the strong men of myth and history and we will be able to bring about to good times as strong men have done countless times before us.
Just to expand on this, when rome was fighting Hannibal in the second Punic war they faced 3 successive tradgedgys that even to our modern ears will sounds insane that they survived. Also im going to vastly oversimplify them down to the losses and a few salient points but I beg you all to read about each battle more individually, they are the cornerstone of all modern military strategy
First was the Battle of the Trebia River, this was the FIRST BATTLE of the war and you need to understand the rommans were the big boss mans of the mediteranian, they had wiped the floor with carthage in the first war so this "battle" was seen as a forgone conclusion
Oh oh, thats no good, Well the roman people are shook but they just call up more legions and go again
next battle is the Battle Of Lake Trasimene.
Its at this point I should point out, all other nations in history at this time period would have been ANNHILATED, most likely after just the first battle. The idea of a BC civilization just tanking the loss of almost 50,000 young trained soldiers in the field and just saying
is FUCKING ABSURD
Ok Final battle of note, the big one and one im sure if any of you have heard of one it would be this guy.
This is the crazy huge one, the one with such overwhelming importance as recently as the gulf war Generel Norman Schwarzkopf credited Hannibals enveloping maneuver in Cannee in his design for desert storms plan. The reason this one is so hallowed in military records is that Hannibal does the impossible, he encircles a greater force with a lesser force.
Look at that, I mean it just annhilahted rome, by ALL measures rome should have been defeated so soundly from this that it became nothing but a stain on history. But such is the character of the romans and the luck of their time, they not only managed to keep their sanity and cohesion as a nation but they were prudent enough to change tactics.
You ever heard of Fabian Tactics? its another roman ripple into the modern era. It means to use tactics of avoiding your enemy until you can force him into unfavorable ground.
That comes from this man, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus
He is credited as the developer for what can be considered "guerilla warfare"
Beacuse of this mans wisdom and far sighted skill rome was able to keep an army in the field for over a year without a Major defeat. And what did the Romans do to reward their savior?
They hated him so much they nicknamed him "the delayer" and made a hero out of his second in command who waited until LITTERlY fabius was away on buisness to attack Hannibal (he looses bad) but thats just how much the romans HATED a year without a victory
Now im sorry I know this seems like a super esoteric roman story but please suffer me this one sperg post as the parralles to the modern day political situation in america seem so palpable
The people in their convulsion then promoted the dumbass second in command to "co-dictator" with fabius, a decsion that would forver ruin the power of the sole appointed dictator and then promptly waited until it was his day in charge (they quite litteraly took turns having control of the army) and attacked Hannibal again and again promptly lost and would have been annihilated if Fabius dident come in at the last minute and save his ass
So ill spare you the rest of the blow by blow but PLEASE go read about the second punic war, Im leaving out Hannibal crossing the ALPS IN WINTER WITH FREAKING ELEPHANTS, the suprise naval invasion by rome that ends up turning the tides and the grudging respect the romans and Hannibal learn for Fabius
I think this story has so much applicable parallels to today was we are taking Lake Trasamine and Cannee loses in the economic and industrial field, our traditional political solutions seems to not be working, perhaps a change in tactics, to something more diplomatic than aggressive might yield far more results
