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Mike Louis reacted to Blackfox5's post in the thread Was Germany punished too hard for WWI? with
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Historically, the Treaty of Versailles was not particularly harsh for a treaty imposed on a defeated power. Germany's demands at... -
Mike Louis reacted to Naval Aviation Fan's post in the thread What should the United States, Britain, and France, have done differently regarding Germany, and Europe, at the End of World War One? with Like.
Unfortunately, in any TL where France was free to do whatever it wanted to Germany post WWI, there wouldn't BE a German nation, but...
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Mike Louis reacted to Naval Aviation Fan's post in the thread What should the United States, Britain, and France, have done differently regarding Germany, and Europe, at the End of World War One? with Like.
I rather think not. 1918-1919 is right at the end of, and immediately after, WWI, which Russia lost, and then we have all the other...
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Mike Louis reacted to NedStark's post in the thread Too big to succeed? 'Rightsize' an overextended nation or empire with Like.
OTOH, Rome with modern Italy borders would be a very compact and defensible state with sufficient wealth and population to defend such...
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Mike Louis reacted to twovultures's post in the thread Too big to succeed? 'Rightsize' an overextended nation or empire with Like.
I feel that the Alps are a more defendable frontier than either the Danube or the Rhine, no? Anyway, I'd take the resource sink that...
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Mike Louis reacted to NedStark's post in the thread Too big to succeed? 'Rightsize' an overextended nation or empire with Like.
The Roman Republic might have lasted well beyond the Migration Period of 4th-5th centuries AD if it remained within the territories of...
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Mike Louis reacted to Evil Crusader's post in the thread Too big to succeed? 'Rightsize' an overextended nation or empire with Like.
The only example I can think of was Charles V's European domains. Hence why he himself split them on inheritance. Most other...
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Mike Louis reacted to cmakk1012's post in the thread Too big to succeed? 'Rightsize' an overextended nation or empire with Like.
No, but given Justinian’s logistics versus the newly established powers in formerly Roman lands like the Gothic nations, I’d argue that...
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Mike Louis reacted to NedStark's post in the thread Too big to succeed? 'Rightsize' an overextended nation or empire with Like.
Roman *Republic* (key here is Republic)
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Mike Louis reacted to BlondieBC's post in the thread How would you have dealt with Germany post WW1? with Like.
Yes there was something wrong without hindsight. The USA was clearly not going to maintain a large standing army in Europe to enforce...
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Mike Louis reacted to SpicyJuan's post in the thread How would you have dealt with Germany post WW1? with Like.
Treat Germany with respect and expect that they will always be a significant force on the European and World stage.
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Mike Louis reacted to Fabius Maximus's post in the thread How to fix Rome - the republic - the imperial inflation? with Like.
The problem wasn't that Rome couldn't control the Med, it was that the Republic's institutions and social structure, whilst excellent...
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Mike Louis reacted to NedStark's post in the thread How to fix Rome - the republic - the imperial inflation? with Like.
Plus, a smaller Roman Republic confined within the very defensible Italian Peninsula would have attracted fewer barbarian hordes - so...
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Mike Louis reacted to Aincrad's post in the thread How to fix Rome - the republic - the imperial inflation? with Like.
Here’s my take, the problem was not of Rome’s size but of the speed it expanded. Much of the republic’s institutions and traditions had...