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Japan has never been the same since the war

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Next time without Italy
Heile, Italy
we could really do with your help,

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#7 - ldnelson

Reply+94

(07/24/2014)[-]

Relevant Italia. Glorious Italia.

#16 to #7 - amonlavtar

Reply+13

(07/24/2014)[-]

Good at loosing world wars,
turning coats and cooking pasta

#17 to #16 - traelos

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(07/24/2014)[-]

>Italian peninsula
>Losing any wars that didn't involve Mussolini

Italy actually has an outright fantastic track record as far as the military is concerned.

#18 to #17 - amonlavtar

Reply+16

(07/24/2014)[-]

Third Italian War of Independence
First Italo-Ethiopian War
Vlora War
Spanish Civil War

Examples of lost wars.
Loss against Ethiopia says it all.

Go back to sphagetti, makaronar

#19 to #18 - traelos

Reply+3

(07/24/2014)[-]

Punic wars
Macedonian wars
Subjugation of Gaul
A dozen wars in the middle east
Invasion of Iberian peninsula
Half of Great Britain
Half of Germany

Then they spend 1000 years divided, but were culturally and economically dominant and still played a major part in removing Kebab

Third Italian War of Independence
Capture of Rome
Boxer Rebellion
The beat the ******* Ottoman Empire
WW1
Albania
They beat Ethiopia the second time around

So basically they won all those wars and lost the first invasion of Ethiopia, WW2, and several wars as the ridiculously OP empire they create finally collapsed after 1000 years.

Yeah god damn those Italians sure have never won a war in their lives...

#27 to #19 - slias

Reply+4

(07/25/2014)[-]

You don't get to claim Roman victories as Italian victories, too large of a gulf between those two peoples in terms of culture and history.

#28 to #27 - traelos

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(07/25/2014)[-]

>Italian peninsula
>Romans don't count

I suppose you're right. It's not like Rome is in Italy or anything.

#49 to #28 - slias

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(07/25/2014)[-]

There was a 1400 year gap between the fall of Rome and the creation of Modern Italy. The Italians and the Romans are not the same people.

#60 to #49 - traelos

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(07/25/2014)[-]

The was a 0 millimeter gap between the Roman Empire and the Italian peninsula. The Roman Empire was on the Italian peninsula.

#95 to #60 - testaburger

Reply+1

(07/25/2014)[-]

Right, which means the americans of today can take credit for native american victories.

Your point is invalid.

#62 to #60 - slias

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(07/25/2014)[-]

Yes, and what relevance does that bear to the discussion of a particular nation's military history? Italy is not the Roman Empire, the Italian people are not Roman. Italy occupies a piece of land that once belonged to the Roman Empire, but that does mean that they are the Roman Empire and it most definitely does not mean they inherit the Roman's military record.

#64 to #62 - traelos

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(07/25/2014)[-]

Seeing as how it's a discussion of the military history of the Italian Peninsula, the most major military power ever to be based out of the Italian Peninsula seems fairly relevant to me.

But what do I know?

#65 to #64 - slias

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(07/25/2014)[-]

"Italy actually has an outright fantastic track record as far as the military is concerned."

If this is actually a discussion of the military history of the Italian Peninsula and all the nations that have ever resided there then I concede the point. I will point out that you yourself specified Italy.

#67 to #65 - traelos

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(07/25/2014)[-]

>Italian peninsula
>Losing any wars that didn't involve Mussolini

I specified the Italian Peninsula.

And regardless it's a bit of a moot point that there's a 1200 year gap between the fall of the Roman Empire and the founding of modern Italy. There was a 1300 year gap between the founding of Rome and the fall of the Roman empire. So by your logic if the Romans weren't Italians then the Romans weren't Romans.

#68 to #67 - slias

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(07/25/2014)[-]

Of course the Roman people were Roman when the Roman Empire and then the Western Roman Empire still existed. Rome did however cease to exist, Rome died. 1400 years later Italy emerged as an entirely separate cultural and political entity, they just so happened to occupy the former Roman heartland. The People of Tunisia are not Carthaginians, now are they?

#79 to #68 - traelos

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(07/25/2014)[-]

They're direct descendents of Carthaginians.

Unless they're not, I'm not very familiar with Tunisian history.

#82 to #79 - slias

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(07/25/2014)[-]

Carthaginians were Phoenician colonists, Modern Tunisians were Berbers that were just the natives of the region. When Rome sacked Carthage they killed off most of the Carthaginians and the Berbers then became the dominate ethnic group in the region.

#96 to #82 - traelos

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(07/25/2014)[-]

Yeah I kinda figured something like that.

But modern Italians are no less Roman than Romans were after the Augustan peace. Maybe a little more German, but that's only because they got all their french in right after Caesar.

#78 to #67 - theladystrangler

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(07/25/2014)[-]

slias is right, you don't get to claim Rome as an ethnically Italian victory, because you are not Romans.
That's like Slavic people praising the Huns.

#84 to #19 - iviagic

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(07/25/2014)[-]

Yeah but you still lost to Ethiopia, bitch.

#20 to #19 - kanedam

Reply0

(07/24/2014)[-]

they just sided with stronger parties during the war to be on the winning side on most of these occasions...

#26 to #20 - anon id: 6452e8a3

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

Yes, that's generally what smart people do in war.

#21 to #17 - dwarfman

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

>410: Visigoths sack Rome, decide Rome is awesome and want to keep it
>425: Vandals sack Rome: **** those Latin assholes
>546: Ostrogoths sack Rome: Oh you're trying to reform the empire? Too bad
>1084: Normans sack Rome: Peasents rise up against this douche Pope!

Others? Hapsburg Spain 1559 to 1713, Hapsburg Austria 1713 to 1796, Napoleon marched in and forced them to declare him King of Italy in 1796 lasted until 1814, before all that when it was divided it was essentially territory divided up between the Spanish, French, Byzantines, Holy Roman Empire, and was actually in danger of being over run by Muslims. So yes, the Italians are rather pathetic. This of course is just the opinion of a humble Kraut, Hungarian, Slovak, Pole mutt of course.

#30 to #7 - macacobr

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

Vocês são tudo faggotão.

#31 to #7 - sttreoflaln

Reply-2

(07/25/2014)[-]

Balotelli, the best thing to come out of Italy, and he isn't even italian...

#13 - wunderlichh

Reply+9

(07/24/2014)[-]

**wunderlichh rolled image**And now we wait for how insulted soundofwinter feels like right now

#15 to #13 - soundofwinter

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(07/24/2014)[-]

#90 to #15 - jokervsbatsy

Reply+1

(07/25/2014)[-]

Italy couldn't conquer Greece the first time, what makes you think they would succeed this time, all by themselves?

inb4 cause they in debt

#57 to #15 - anon id: b73a1593

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

and then the war only lasted two days.

#48 to #15 - anon id: 0c09d3c1

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

That's cute.

#45 to #15 - feelythefeel

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

>implying *********** got Scotland

#6 - fargfive

Reply+20

(07/24/2014)[-]

Homu Clock-Buckler-Thing best Clock-Buckler-Thing

#9 to #6 - buttslapper

Reply+1

(07/24/2014)[-]

*best cock-blocker-thing

#10 to #9 - fargfive

Reply0

(07/24/2014)[-]

That works too.

#70 to #6 - hentaisweetie

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

#81 to #70 - bestfoxgirl

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

Ceiling Madoka is watching you masturbate

#72 to #70 - fargfive

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

Madoka and company being trapped in Homura's labyrinth was an impossibility because witches do not exist in the world that Madoka inhabits. The labyrinth did not fall under the category of "worlds that might come into existence" because its very existence was impossible. Homura's labyrinth was a turning point in the universe because the impossible had happened, a divergence of sorts that would explain Madokami's blindness to it.

an alternate explanation: It's magic.

#73 to #72 - hentaisweetie

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

Yes but that doesn't show Homuras labyrinth. Once they were out Madoka should have gotten her foresight back.

#74 to #73 - fargfive

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

Maybe she wanted it. Maybe it was Madoka's plan all along.
Despite outward appearances, Homura's universe was the best possible result of the events inside the labyrinth.

#24 - acksl

Reply+11

(07/25/2014)[-]

ifw

#33 - decay

Reply+10

(07/25/2014)[-]

Eh, Some body might want this some day.

#5 - bestfoxgirl

Reply+9

(07/24/2014)[-]

Magical girls best girls

Japan has a magical girl's wand

#71 to #5 - hentaisweetie

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

#8 to #5 - lavitts

Reply0

(07/24/2014)[-]

Wasn't Ichigo's thing more of a heart-shaped tambourine?

#11 to #8 - bestfoxgirl

Reply0

(07/24/2014)[-]

Well not this one in particular, I was just speaking generally (most of them have some wand-like thingies)

#12 to #11 - lavitts

Reply0

(07/24/2014)[-]

I know, I was just trying to remember.
Haven't seen TMM in forever.

#22 - anon id: 73357c32

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

#23 to #22 - vampyrsten [OP]

Reply+7

(07/25/2014)[-]

ITALIA STRONK !!

#93 to #22 - zahnrad

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

And at the end they still surrendered.

#35 to #22 - spidahridah

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

Can't find the article on Wikipedia.. I'm guessing its fake.

#76 to #35 - iridium

Reply+1

(07/25/2014)[-]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouvrage_Cap_Martin#Casemate_du_Pont_Saint_Louis

#97 to #76 - spidahridah

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

Thank ya very much

#41 to #35 - evilpotato

Reply+1

(07/25/2014)[-]

Look harder, it's there for me in a section on the page for ouvrage cap Martin.

#42 to #41 - spidahridah

Reply+1

(07/25/2014)[-]

Gotcha, thanks.

#77 to #35 - iridium

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

**** sorry didn't notice the next post over.

#89 to #22 - firesky

Reply-2

(07/25/2014)[-]

I love how the French surrendered, nevertheless

#44 - feelythefeel

Reply+6

(07/25/2014)[-]

Fun Fact: In WW1, Japan and Italy actually fought for the Triple Entaunt.

They lived long enough to see themselves become the bad guys.

#75 to #44 - Conquistador

Reply+1

(07/25/2014)[-]

Italy and Japan felt betrayed by their allies after the first world war, because they didn't get the land that they wanted.

#52 to #44 - reginleif#76 on contentRank#76

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

Wasn't Italy on the losing side on both wars and then just switched?

#87 to #52 - LeoBoon

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

Italy was part of the Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungary and Germany at the beginning of the war, against the Triple Entente with the United Kingdom, France and Russia. Italy did not enter the conflict immediately however: first of all, most Italians resented being in an alliance with their arch-enemies the Austrians, against which they'd spent fighting Wars of Independence for the best part of the 19th century, and which still held lands that the Italians claimed were theirs (so called Italia Irredenta). Second of all, the alliance was defensive in nature, and Italy was under no obligation to intervene. Third, Germans and Austrians didn't even ask Italy to join them in the war when it broke out, probably (and quite understandably) assuming that Italy would suck at it
Italy stayed neutral until the Triple Entente, needing the help of everyone who didn't speak kraut, managed to cajole them into war by promising heaps of territories taken from the enemy. Italy then spent three years fighting bitter mountain warfare and got little to nothing when it came to peace, which contributed to the rise of fascism.
Italy didn't "betray" anyone or "switch sides". In true Italian "gattopardian" spirit (look it up), they bid their time, weighed their options, kept everyone happy and waited until they thought they knew who'd win.

#54 to #52 - reginleif#76 on contentRank#76

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#53 to #52 - feelythefeel

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

As far as I'm aware, the one country to switch sides mid war in either world war was France.

#55 to #53 - reginleif#76 on contentRank#76

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I#mediaviewer/File:Map_Europe_alliances_1914-en.svg

Think Italy was a Central power at the time.

#56 to #55 - feelythefeel

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

Did Italy honor its alliance with the central powers?

#58 to #56 - reginleif#76 on contentRank#76

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

did italy contribute much during ww2?

To me its still taking a side.

#66 to #58 - boothead

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

Well they invaded Ethiopia for Hitler.

#59 to #58 - feelythefeel

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

Well at least in WW1 they essentially fought the war on the African front. My point is that they fought for the Triple Entaunt (Although it's worth noting that they did join late).

#46 to #44 - vampyrsten [OP]

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(07/25/2014)[-]

>Implying the Axis' where the "badguys"
>Implying Hitler wasn't German Jesus

#80 to #46 - armsdealer

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

You recognize that that slogan is mean to be a joke, not a motto to live by, right?

#50 to #46 - anon id: 4dd0ca5b

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

He said ww1

#51 to #50 - vampyrsten [OP]

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(07/25/2014)[-]

He states that they at first fought against Germany in ww1, and that they later became bad guys by switching sides.

There is no Good/Evil in war man, only people fighting for their lives..

#1 - vpngtn

Reply+1

(07/24/2014)[-]

one thing about these comics is that they arent supposed to speak perfect english, except for USA, Canada and the UK of course.

#2 to #1 - vampyrsten [OP]

Reply+6

(07/24/2014)[-]

This cartoon is old as ****.
1½ years *****.
they didn't have Polandball rules then.

This the best I can do.

#3 to #2 - vpngtn

Reply+1

(07/24/2014)[-]

oh, in that case you have my apologies

#4 to #3 - vampyrsten [OP]

Reply+1

(07/24/2014)[-]

it's all cool, cheers buddy !

#61 - reginleif#76 on contentRank#76

Reply+5

(07/25/2014)[-]

I know this is a joke, but it's kinda pointless for Germany to "take over" anything with weapons. They already own Europe and Britain with the EU.

:/ Cultural victory is a bitch ain't it?

Kinda funny that we have this 3 superpower scenarios in dystopian settings and here we are with NAFTA nations, EU, and Russia/China. We're ******.

#98 to #61 - feelythefeel

Reply0

(07/25/2014)[-]

NAFTA's already won, because it isn't even NAFTA.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_American_States

It's the Pan American Union.

#94 to #61 - captainp

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(07/25/2014)[-]

Cultural victory? More like economy victory. Culturally Germany is almost destroyed thanks to multiculturalism project.

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