Fascists and national socialists buy into the Spartan Mirage. Wars are won by physical toughness, total cruelty, and racial superiority, as opposed to ensuring your soldiers have petrol, food, and mu… (View Post)

At this stage, I think I'd expect something like the Canadian result at the next election. Voters will converge on the main left wing party (probably Labour) and the main right wing party (proba… (View Post)

Germany was in fact, closer to starvation, and its people had to endure lower rations, than the UK. Nazi "economics" never really took account of the fact that Germany is not a very fertile… (View Post)

Badger meat became briefly popular in WWII. (View Post)

Trying to analyse why people you dislike are doing well, tends to come some time after just writing them off as idiots. (View Post)