Strasbourg shooting: Gunman at large after three killed and 12 injured

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Was summarily slapped many times over by a better culture, a culture that inherently protected the ideals of immigration (until recently).

Currently still has several US bases in the country as a reminder.


Natural resource poor Japan over extended itself fighting most of South East Asia and the far larger USA in ww2 and had some bad outcomes in a few key naval battles that turned the tides of war against it.
 
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Natural resource poor Japan over extended itself fighting most of South East Asia and the far larger USA in ww2 and had some bad outcomes in a few key naval battles that turned the rides of war against it.

A superior culture would have realised that well before being absolutely destroyed.
 
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But their culture wasn't destroyed... See above they lost a war but Japan retained its culture (which may have developed since)

It hasn't been destroyed yet, we aren't that far from the war in terms of cultural movements and ultimately China will blow right over it in the future. If only to avenge Manchuria.
 
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Was summarily slapped many times over by a better culture, a culture that inherently protected the ideals of immigration (until recently).

Currently still has several US bases in the country as a reminder.
A culture that took two nukes to stop them. america got "summarily slapped" by a bunch of guys in shorts and t-shirts in Viet Nam before pulling out w/ their tails between their legs. and their culture might have "inherently protected the ideals of immigration" but it didn't look so fondly on the people already there, did it?
 
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IMO China is hardly the bastion of societal morality, BUT, in the context of controlling 2 BILLION people, I think their preventative measures when it comes to radical religion seem to be effective.

I'd like to know their terror attack fatalities per capita, given the enormous land-mass and population.
 
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A culture that took two nukes to stop them. america got "summarily slapped" by a bunch of guys in shorts and t-shirts in Viet Nam before pulling out w/ their tails between their legs. and their culture might have "inherently protected the ideals of immigration" but it didn't look so fondly on the people already there, did it?

And the better culture developed the means to defeat the lesser one with ease, shocker.

Vietnam is a case of estranged interests at home and largely because of the far superior rules of war that were employed after WW2, European capitalism took over Japan like butter melting in the Sun, inevitable failure.
 
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And the better culture developed the means to defeat the lesser one with ease, shocker.

Vietnam is a case of estranged interests at home and largely because of the far superior rules of war that were employed after WW2, European capitalism took over Japan like butter melting in the Sun, inevitable failure.
i guess dropping nukes on cities full of civilians would end a war "w/ ease". not sure where "better culture" fits into that decision though.
vietnam is a case of a "better" culture stomping in big-headed and getting thoroughly humiliated by a bunch of outmanned and outgunned guys. and again the "better culture" attempted some very cultural tactics like drenching the country w/ poisons that seemingly did as much harm to their own troops as it did to the enemy.
i'm still not seeing the "failure" of Japan to which you speak, but then, that's almost a given for your posts.
 
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Natural resource poor Japan over extended itself fighting most of South East Asia and the far larger USA in ww2 and had some bad outcomes in a few key naval battles that turned the tides of war against it.

The Pacific war is typically seen simply as a part of WW2 and an example of unwarranted and unjustifed Japanese aggression, In fact, WW2 only represented the final stage of a conflict that had been ongoing for some 90 years

And the Americans started it!

From Wiki..

When Commodore Matthew C. Perry's four-ship squadron appeared in Edo Bay (Tokyo Bay) in July 1853, the shogunate was thrown into turmoil. Commodore Perry was fully prepared for hostilities if his negotiations with the Japanese failed, and threatened to open fire if the Japanese refused to negotiate. He gave them two white flags, telling them to hoist the flags when they wished a bombardment from his fleet to cease and to surrender.[8] To demonstrate his weapons, Perry ordered his ships to attack several buildings around the harbor. The ships of Perry were equipped with new Paixhans shell guns, capable of bringing destruction everywhere a shell landed.[9][10]

Nirayama (韮山) reverberatory furnace in Izunokuni, Shizuoka built by Egawa Hidetatsu. Construction began in November 1853 and was completed in 1857; it operated until 1864.[a]
Fortifications were established at Odaiba in Tokyo Bay in order to protect Edo from an American incursion. Industrial developments were also soon started in order to build modern cannons. A reverbatory furnace was established by Egawa Hidetatsu in Nirayama to cast cannons.[11] Attempts were made at building Western-style warships such as the Shōhei Maru by using Dutch textbooks.

The American fleet returned in 1854. The chairman of the senior councillors, Abe Masahiro, was responsible for dealing with the Americans. Having no precedent to manage this threat to national security, Abe tried to balance the desires of the senior councillors to compromise with the foreigners, of the emperor who wanted to keep the foreigners out, and of the feudal daimyō rulers who wanted to go to war. Lacking consensus, Abe compromised by accepting Perry's demands for opening Japan to foreign trade while also making military preparations. In March 1854, the Treaty of Peace and Amity (or Treaty of Kanagawa) maintained the prohibition on trade but opened the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American whaling ships seeking provisions, guaranteed good treatment to shipwrecked American sailors, and allowed a United States consul to take up residence in Shimoda, a seaport on the Izu Peninsula, southwest of Edo. In February 1855, the Russians followed suit with the Treaty of Shimoda.[citation needed]

Japans rapid industrialization and subsequent resource crisis which drove Japans imperialist era was as a direct response to unwelcome US aggression.

Japan in the 19th century was much like the Anderman islanders today, they just wanted to be left alone!
 
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Anyway getting back on topic.. Glad its dead... Any word from 'any' Islamist leaders condemning the attack yet? ? ? ? ? ? calling for an end of attacks on non believers maybe ?? It would go a long way you know ! Who knows maybe even stop it if they all got together and ran a campaign.

And Islam wonders why the world doesn't trust them ?
 
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Anyway getting back on topic.. Glad its dead... Any word from 'any' Islamist leaders condemning the attack yet? ? ? ? ? ? calling for an end of attacks on non believers maybe ?? It would go a long way you know ! Who knows maybe even stop it if they all got together and ran a campaign.

And Islam wonders why the world doesn't trust them ?

Why the **** would 'Islamist' leaders condemn something they enjoy?

You realise that Islamists are the fundementalist side of things right? The extreme of extremes? The very terrorists themselves? Goodness me.

Not only that but there many leaders of many tribes and they pretty much all disagree with eachother, so how would you expect them to say anything? Such total misunderstanding is boring.
 
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i guess dropping nukes on cities full of civilians would end a war "w/ ease". not sure where "better culture" fits into that decision though.
vietnam is a case of a "better" culture stomping in big-headed and getting thoroughly humiliated by a bunch of outmanned and outgunned guys. and again the "better culture" attempted some very cultural tactics like drenching the country w/ poisons that seemingly did as much harm to their own troops as it did to the enemy.
i'm still not seeing the "failure" of Japan to which you speak, but then, that's almost a given for your posts.

Arrogant cultures tend to do stupid **** that makes them lose, shocker, the US after WW2 suddenly turned into a behemoth with a much inflated ego and now appears to be endeavoring to destroy itself.

Such self-hating westerners in here is well amusing to me considering what this thread is about.
 
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Why the **** would 'Islamist' leaders condemn something they enjoy?

You realise that Islamists are the fundementalist side of things right? The extreme of extremes? The very terrorists themselves? Goodness me.

Not only that but there many leaders of many tribes and they pretty much all disagree with eachother, so how would you expect them to say anything? Such total misunderstanding is boring.

Islamists are just people who want to promote Islam as a political system, it's not just terrorists, Saudi Arabia is an Islamist state for instance. An Islamist leader could could be very well mean the type of people who hold people to Sharia law standards in this country, or the type of people who promote laws which adhere to Islamic beliefs.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/islamist
 
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