Yea? Besides retreating from Europe what major invasion of continental Europe did they attempt without the additional support of US troops?

Great Britain itself probably could have eventually defeated the Nazis regardless of how much territory they gained in Russia. Given their colonial Empire and the support of the Commonwealth and the industrial backing of the United States, they just had too many men and resources that Germany couldn't have matched. In a war of attrition Britain would have won no matter what, at tremendous costs of course.

What Great Britain ended up doing was going into debt to the United States and giving up half of Europe to the Soviet Union so they could mostly sit the war out. At the end of 1941 the Polish government in exile was still in London and the Soviets had installed their own government. Britain's guarantee of Independence of Poland had little to do with Britain's concern over Polish sovereignty and had more to do with a grudge between them and Germany. In the end they didn't care who defeated Germany as long as Germany was defeated. So in 1939 they had this enormous Empire and strategic allies in Eastern Europe, and 20 years after World War II they were still in debt to the United States, had lost most of their empire because of promises made to the United States to decolonize, and the The entire Eastern Europe was now occupied by Soviet forces with various public governments.

No, before France even surrendered Britain made it clear that they would never seek peace with Germany. There was some rumbling about accepting peace with Germany that some other redditors may mention. But really this was just one member of a cabinet who simply brought up the idea and it was struck down immediately by Churchill. Great Britain and France even considered declaring war on the Soviet Union during the Winter War, so you can understand how "all in" they were. When's the United States entered the war there was no chance in hell, all allies had come to the agreement that complete unconditional surrender or nothing, infact Germany made several overtures to the western allies about the possibility of white peace in exchange for continuing their war with the Soviet Union which was rejected without discussion.

Are native Hawaiians considered native Americans? Or they considered Polynesian? One of my neighbors was 100% native Hawaiian, I suspect there are plenty of 100% native Hawaiians still around.

How do we know they broke in? Could have just as easily been the other way around.

They denied her bail because she was a flight risk.

The defended objected saying that the judge had a bone to pick with her.

The judge replied that he actually prefers boneless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_People%27s_Campaign

Remember when MLK started "The Poor People's Campaign" and they shot him immediately?

Sounds wonderful /s

Why are the Saudis trying to get people to move there? What demographic would want to move to Saudi Arabia? I mean if I were a millionaire who can move anywhere in the world something like a Greek island might be nice, but Saudi Arabia? What could they possibly offer me that any European country wouldn't also have?

Yea if you report illegal income there probably isn't receipts, so the IRS is going to be real curious as to how you came to that amount and suspicious that there might be more you aren't claiming.

I knew this guy named Ted, a professor at UC Berkeley. Ol' Ted would go on and on about technology and how it's destroying communities and that humans now adapt to machines. I didn't quite understand it all but of the parts I did understand it was really brilliant stuff. I wonder what Ted has been up too?

Ah yes, the mannequin will take the opinions of homeless people and mall goths and hold that data on the same level as their target demo. Sounds like a winning strat.

Yes, ma'am. I've killed Doyle Hargraves with a lawnmower blade. Yes, ma'am, I'm right sure of it. I hit him two good whacks in the head with it. That second one just plum near cut his head in two... It's a lil' ol' white house on the corner of Vine Street and some other street. There's a pick-up truck out front that says "Doyle Hargraves Construction" on it. Doyle said besides sending the police, you might wanna send an ambulance or a "hearst". I'll be sitting here, waiting on ye.

"top 10 things"

The iron age refered to the ability to forge iron into a useful way by refining it. Previous to that there were isolated instances of using iron from meteorites that didn't require purification, even then they weren't able to melt them, only soften them up and hammer them into useful shapes.

Microsoft combat flight simulator WWII series

IL-2 sturmovik

"I was here first you're not getting in this plane"

"Come on bob, look I can just sit in your lap facing the other way, you can look over my shoulder, wrap your arms around me to handle the controls, just tell me if you need to to reach for anything. Hell I can even keep an eye out to see if we're being followed"

It's hard to imagine that 2.9 billion have no access. In the 2000s Ethiopia had the most robust cellular network in Africa despite having no government. The reason was because of the lack of government banks couldn't really operate, but cellular companies physical infrastructure only really depended on cell towers. Cellular providers could be the middle men in international wire transfers. All you had to do was send a text and your cellular company could effectively become your bank.

In places with the least infrastructure it seemed there was the greatest incentive to provide the latest technology.

Just curious, won't all the people in there introduce moisture into the air? Does it just get absorbed by the walls or is there still air conditioning?

The amount in our crust is actually relatively small amount, even if you were to mine at all. It's estimated that the amount we can reasonably extract from the crust would amount to a solid cube 100m by 100m thick. Contrast that with how much gold is currently in the Earth's core, since heavier elements sink. If you were to take all the gold in the Earth's core and spread it evenly across the surface of the earth it would cover the entire surface of earth in a sold 1m of gold.

The problem at the time is that intervention was seen as neo-colonialist and bad. The US got roundly criticized for intervening in Somalia. People rightfully asked why the hell western troops were being sent to third world nations on peacekeeping operations which seemed to only produce collateral damage and bad blood between the occupiers and occupied.

Then Rwanda happens, all the western nations are frozen. Do they send in troops and get shit on at home and abroad about being the "world police"? Needlessly interfering with other people's problems. Perpetuating warfare by being in a place no one asked them to be in. They clearly were stuck in a catch-22, chose to try to downplay the genocide and hope it blows over so they could get out of having an occupying force overseas. Didn't happen and it looked bad.

A couple years later Kosovo happens, You see the USA and UN step up, they didn't want a repeat of Rwanda.

Until you realize that at the beginning of the war Britain was a world power, entered the war to protect Poland, and had the world's most powerful navy. At the end of 1955 the Polish government in exile was still in London while half of Poland was now part of the Soviet Union and the other half was a puppet government of the Soviet Union, it had lost half it's colonies already and about to lose the other half, and it had been eclipsed as a world power by the United States handily, who now has the world's largest navy. On top of that it was saddled with a tremendous amount of debt that it constantly struggled to pay, all thanks to Churchill.

The reason for this is Churchill did what all 'great' leaders did, pull out the checkbook and credit cards and started writing notes to everyone to fix their problems for them. He promised America to decolonize for loans, he promised Stalin half of Europe to take on the majority of fighting. Even then much of the British army was commonwealth personal. The only meaningful thing he did was manage the blitz well, and that's because he couldn't pawn that off onto another country.

They actually issued field manuals for the use of captured enemy weapons. The use of the weapon would assume the ammo is captured also.

Does anyone know how common it was for Americans to just pick up MG42s? The M1919 with the tripod must have been hell carrying around. The MG42 was probably 10 lbs lighter