When someone tries to identify the "Good guys" and "Bad guys" in a war

>When someone tries to identify the "Good guys" and "Bad guys" in a war

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Well, we always try to make such unbelievably destructive events morally justified. It's good for sleep.

Just for shits and giggles, though, let's play a game. I'll post a war and someone replies by posting who the good and bad guys were, along with another war.

I'll start us off.

>good:boer
>bad:brits
The 30 Years War

It's very difficult for people not to moralize things. Even if you reject the concept that one nation is superior to another in war, you'll still end up looking for somebody to blame. So you'll end up blaming the upper classes of both nations, and look at the soldiers in the field as being disenfranchised victims of their machinations. This is still moralizing the conflict, just in a different way.

>Good:Catholics
>Bad:Protestants
The Vietnam War

>good:USA
>bad:North Vietnam
WW1

Boers

Did it wrong. You gotta post a war of your own.
Also, are the Boers the good or the bad guys?

Hey, I've read that book!

>Good: Serbian ultra nationalists
>Bad: Everyone else
Bucket war

>Good: Guelphs
>Bad: Ghibellines
Franco-Prussian War

>Good: Franco
>Bad: Prussian
Emu War

>Good: Emus
>Bad: Aussies
Hundred Years War

>Good: French
>Bad: English
Spanish Civil War

>Good: Republicans
>Bad: Nationalists
Finno-Korean Hyperwar

good: notion of good and evil created by the fallout of the korean philosophy bombing
bad: evil seed of human greed formed by destruction of old mega-helsinki

forgot to put a war

Chinese Civil war

>Good: Nationalists
>Bad: Maoists
Great Northern War

Well, some wars have M*xicans in them.

>Good: Sweden
>Bad: Russia
Boudicca's Revolt

Sweden was so close it's still infuriating to read about it it's like watching a horror movie and yelling at the character for being so stupid except it's a book or article and I get noise complaints because I live in a small apartment with thin walls

>Good: Rome
>Bad: Boudicca
War of the Roses

Good guys: House of York
Bad guys: House of Lancaster & House of Tudor

Soviet-Afghan War

>Good: Afghan
>Bad: Soviet
The First Crusade

>Good: Crusaders
>Bad: Muslims
Alexander's Conquest of Persia

>Good: Alexander
>Bad: Everyone else
Second Punic War.

>good: Rome
>bad: Carthage
Taiping civil war/rebellion

>good: brother of Jesus Christ
>bad: Qing
Gallic wars

>Good: Romans and Loyal Gauls
>Bad: Rebellious Gauls
Mahdist War.

Wrong!

>Good:Prussia
>Bad:Not Prussia
any war prussia was in from 1701 to ww1

youtube.com/watch?v=a7mbwo4rSFU
had a good chuckle

as always the retarded prussiaboo does not get the game

>Good: Prussian
>Bad: Not Prussia
Zulu War

good: boers
both: zulu
bad: brits

>good: zulu
>bad: british

Reconquista

This is a good thread
>good: Moors
>bad: Spaniards
Quasi-war

>Good: French
>Bad: Eternal anglo
Charlemagne's war on the saxons

>Good: Charlemagne
>Bad: Saxons
Croatian War of Independence

>Good: Croats
>Bad: Serbs, Gypsies
Mexican-American War

>Good: Croats
>Bad:Serbs
Augustus vs Mark Antony

>Good: Mexicans
>Bad: Americans
War of 1812

>Good: Augustus
>Bad: Mark Antony
(although mark is a good guy he was on the bad side)

Third Crusade

>Good: Richard the Lionheart
>Bad:Saracens
(based saladin though)

Fourth Crusade

>Good: ...uh
>Bad: Tecumseh, Indians, US, UK, French
The French-Lijar War

Good: Byzantines
Bad: Venetians

Good: French
Bad: Lijar

English Civil War

Woah woah woah woah there can't be TWO bad guys there has to be a good guy and a bad guy or else I get confused!!!

That's my bad I really, really couldn't figure out who the obvious good guys were in that war, let me try again.
>Good: Andrew Jackson
>Bad: Indians

France fucking provoced that war. They had it coming.

>Good: Cromwell
>Bad: Royalists

The 80 Years war

Good: Spain
Bad: Netherlands

William the Conqueror vs Harold Godwinson

(wtf why are we bad)
>good: Harold Godwinson
>bad: William the Conqueror

Harold was for English sovereignty and he'd beaten Hadrada, so he's an underdog

Anglo-Dutch War

The Dutch are always the bad guys.

>Heretics
>Rebelling against their legitimate ruler
>Weakened the Habsburgs and consequently Europe

I wonder why they were the bad guys

Wasn't that war started by the French trying to strip lands rightfully owned by the English king?

based protestants destroying a conjoined super empire that has american gold and a mountain of silver (literally). losing no fight. becoming traders and kickstarting richest and best company ever.

we strengthened europe

>losing no fight

What?