Trying to understand the Syrian War of today is a real headache for me.
Which makes me ask: what are some of history's confusing wars? And by that I mean multifactional fighting, weird cassus belli, and other things that makes a war hard to understand?
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The First World War is a pretty complicated one to understand. Especially the more you delve into things.
Sup.
Here's a really absurd one
Venetians are a shifty people.
Eternal Venetian strikes again
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I don't have a pic but look up Lebanese Civil War, it'll make your head spin
and this is only the first, the second was an even bigger clusyterfuck
>Israel
Not a war, but a series of them: the Warlord Period
>Ok, so the Qing Dynasty fell and China became a Republic.
>But only after the Republic made a deal with the devil and made the general of the modernized Qing Armies -the Beiyang Army-, Yuan Shikai, president so he defects from the Qing.
>Lol it becomes Empire of China.
>But back to republic when Yuan Shikai died.
>But oh wait, the ex-Beiyang Generals do not agree with the leadership.
>Lel they Balkanize Northern China into cliques of warlords upholding their generalissimos as tr00 president of China.
>Meanwhile the republic of China only has de facto rule in Southern China.
>The Warlords in the North fight each other while ignoring the republic.
>Warlords consistently switch factions whenever their party seems to be losing.
>The republic of China frequently tries to get one warlord on its payroll but fails.
>Suddenly, the Guominjun (Nationalist Army) composed by various factionless Northern Warlords sympathetic to the Republic tries to browbeat the Northern warlords back into the republic, but fails and only turns Northern China into a 3 way/4 way civil war.
>This shit is the state of affairs of CHina from 1916-1928, until Chiang Kai Shek got the republic's balls together and launched his Northern Expedition.
To quote a popular Chinese saying that best captures the confusion of that era: it was a time when "there were more officers than soldiers, more soldiers than guns, and more bandits than people."
I'm pretty sure Britain and France itself were the only two countries that didn't switch sides at least once during the twenty-five years of that conflict (some did it three times at least).
Stop thinking of the Syria conflict as a war and start thinking of it as more of break down of central power into tribal groups.
Austria, perhaps? I know Boney conquered them a few times, but did Austria ever actually fight alongside France?
Why is the Congo allowed to exist?
This meme has gone too far
Venetians were just doing their thing. Blame the Pope.
The Hundred Years War
Thirty Years War
> Hell on Earth
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What a shit show.
Syrian Kurds want autonomy and socialism
- Supported by US
Assad wants to maintain his tight-run autocracy at any cost
- Supported by Russia and Iran
ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and Al-Nusra want far-right Islamism
- Supported by wealthy Gulf donors
The other rebels want autonomy and a more Islamic society
- Some supported by US and Saudi Arabia
This doesn't work, the second option should be Antioch or some other holy city held by Muslims
Why was Israel involved? No memes please
Money. It isn't even a meme either. Israel got involved solely to sell weapons to whoever wanted to buy them.
>Arab winter
>Iran Saudi Arabia proxy conflict
>Cold War II
>army of monotheists
>fucking turkey
The Jews.
No really Israel is ran by Jews.
Somebody on here mentioned that when Admiral Doenitz surrendered Germany in 1945, he essentially went "[the war] is the worst thing that has happened to Germany since the thirty years war."
Yeah, I mean a whole generation gets born into war lives during war and dies in war... in some regions of germany 50% of the population ended up dead. And the original reason for the war has become utterly irrelevant.
Getting conquered isnt really switching sides
They fought alongside him in the Russian invasion
They contributed with 35,000 troops