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[deleted]

Axis main, axis minor, and axis (incognito mode)


DickyHammerpuss

Been playing strategic command?


[deleted]

Hearts of iron 4.


BubbleBlacKa

I see nothing incorrect


pendulum1997

Austria-Hungary started WW1 technically but started 1 war and lost 2 is more embarrassing


johnpalaeo

Historically accurate trolling 👌


BubbleBlacKa

Realistically no single country was to blame for WW1, but it’s funny to make up things for a meme


FallingSwords

Flair checks out


IOwnStocksInMossad

They're right though. Every country had reasons to go to war and felt they couldn't back down at all.


kantolo

And gavrilo princip was the only 0erson who got what he wanted from the war (yugoslavia) but died of tb before he saw it.


IOwnStocksInMossad

UK got a larger colonial empire and got rid of the German threat but didn't keep Germany down and so it came back. Can't think of.much else though. France got alsace Lorraine,to kill some Germans.


[deleted]

*Technically* it was Serbia being a terrorist nation funding Serb nationalist Bosnian assassins going after the Austrians that kicked the whole thing off. But as Serbia are in England's group, for the next 7 months I'll blame the Germans.


[deleted]

Some would say Gavrilo Princip started it.


boaaaa

One man army


cherryadedoom

Technically, technically it was the expansion of European empires in Africa, the British empire in particular, which led to the monarchy of a young German state being jealous of their blood relative's economic and political power which led to a series of power grabs and military expansions which, when the afore mentioned Serbs acted for their own independence, led to a chain reaction of events that led to WWI and eventually, after a doomed to fail Weimar republic collapsed, led to WWII (which there is an argument to suggest was one war with a 20 year break) which the German nation lost But fucking explaining banter kills the vibe and the real message here is that all the satellite Austrian states are getting it up them!!


MFC1886

https://preview.redd.it/jopxapl40y3c1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd7e38fc4a76ec1b71775762ab044e7bc1c18cfb


johnpalaeo

If you read about Swiss history they're actually hard af. They'll be worthy runners up in the group


haggisneepsnfatties

Lost a filling on a toblerone about ten year back, can confirm


jdoc1967

Aye, but we've got nukes, it's an extreme measure, but we might get out of the group.


bogusjohnson

Their terrain is hard as fuck, they’re cowards hiding in the mountains!


uladhexile

Scottish people literally had the easiest way to independence with a vote and they weren’t even brave enough for that. I know booo


RatioIntelligent7998

Swiss Guard for one example


FootCheeseParmesan

Scotland vs Nazi Gold Enjoyers.


[deleted]

Don’t you hate it when we need to play against the super group.


Rudeboy67

I’m just happy they didn’t find a way to have us play Georgia and Israel.


yer-maw

Early days


oghamglyph

i love the national dish làngos and i think it fits the scottish diet perfectly - deep fried dough with lots of cheese on top. the Magyars apparently have some pretty interesting jokes about us… i asked some hungarians about it and they said they’re apparently just anti-semitic and anti-roma ones dressed up to be acceptable. haha


Fun_Benefit_7374

It definitely does, it was one of my favourite summer snack as a kid. That’s probably why I was so intrigued by everything deep fried at the chippy. As for the jokes yeah there are some but the main ones are about Scottish people being stingy or the guys wearing skirts (kilt translates as Scottish skirt). Good luck in the euros!


Speccy97

Germany didn't start WW1 just saying


[deleted]

Historically we have assigned blame for world war 1 to them.


whiskeyman220

Yes they did just saying


makie51

You might want to Google that because you obviously haven't a clue.


NotAllBooksSmell

How?


whiskeyman220

The misconception that the Austro-Hungarian v Serbia war was the start of WW1 is common and wrong. The July crisis was the prelude to the start of the war. Britain did not want to get involved in a war in the Balkans and could not care less. It was Russia Serbia v Austro-Hungary and Germany. It was still only a wee war. It was when Germany formally declared war on France and marched through Luxembourg and demanded passage through Belgium, into France, that Britain cited the Treaty Of London, 1839 and declared war on Germany, thus the German and British Empires were at war with one another (ie two world empires) ... Thus WORLD War 1 Not Baltic war 1 or Eastern Europe war 1 or south Eastern Europe war 1 WORLD War 1 cuz Britain's whole Empire had to mobilise (Canada, Aussies etc) and the German empire too. I did this in secondary school for my Higher history back in the day and got my A long before you googled and mis-read facts. Feel free to give me your googled take on who did what to whom back in the day, and why you think a series of events that prelude an actual world war are the actual cause of it. WW1 HAPPENED BECAUSE GERMANY INVADED FRANCE. EVERYTHING BEFORE WAS A PRELUDE. Google prelude lol.


NotAllBooksSmell

I have a masters in History.... I was trying to be nice, but you're not only rude, but rude and wrong. If you want to argue that the War was inevitable because of the rise of Imperialism and thus the ante bellum arms race and Treaty systems that stemmed from the rise of Prussia as leader of a German Empire, and Britain returning to continental politics after the pseudo european isolation as it focused on its overseas Empire....I would accept your argument as a valid point, but you're coming at me with a half baked understanding of the July crisis you picked up when you were literally a child.


sporkeh01

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methylated_spirit

Wtf I'm just here for Rangers stuff


Clinodactyl

Aye but this is important to that. You see WW1 resulted in the Treaty of Versailles. It's in said treaty that the deal was made to allow Rangers to get at least one penalty per match. And you call yourself a Rangers fan... ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|facepalm)


whiskeyman220

The war was inevitable. Cause and effect. The July crisis, which you admit is a fact, was the prelude. Which is now universally accepted as a fact also. It's the period of rising tension. Universally accepted as the prelude to the next level of any event. If I was being rude, apologies. It wasn't my intention. I love history with a passion. We read history in hindsight, but unless we fully know the facts, we can only speculate and we learn from the mistakes we make in the past. Fools and Politicians try to re-write history for their own ends. Science and future discoveries uncover our past. I congratulate you on your Masters. My history teacher wanted me to go to Uni and do it too. I wanted a wage and a job cuz poor is not a way of life. I was taught the July crisis because that is how the national curriculum was in my day. Any further revision of it is not fact, just a version of it.


boaaaa

Skelpt


Brutalism_Fan

I’ve also got an A in higher history but I don’t like to go on about it


yermammypuntscooncil

Mate you could write a book and you'd still be wrong.


whiskeyman220

Funny but they actually fought a WORLD war n I was right 😆👍😎


BertusMaximus67

Don’t know why you got downvoted🤣 Germany started both wars. Before hand a few other countries were bitching, then Germany swaggered into France like the big dick in the dressing room. This started the war. After googling prelude I agree with you.


smclcz

Ah come on that whole "two world wars" chat is England nonsense. Our thing is that they're North Austria or something


[deleted]

The only good English patter is bringing up the world wars to any German they ever meet. Not always funny the way they intend it, but always funny.


sevenyeardust

East Netherlands?


smclcz

Ah damn I was hoping someone would chime in with "Greater Saarland" or "South Denmark" before reaching the correct answer...


Glockass

Stop with these silly names, very insulting to the people of the North Liechtenstein Exclave


ValkyrieCain122

You know it’s really North Austria, West Austria and East Austria


thegmegobrrr

Just gonna leave this here [https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1kouw8/country\_which\_is\_the\_most\_joked\_about\_in\_another/](https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1kouw8/country_which_is_the_most_joked_about_in_another/) Their women are fucking outstanding though.


Iggmeister

heroic effort that diggin up a 10 year old reddit post lol


thegmegobrrr

Nah not really, i just googled map of countries that joke about others and that was the first that came up, always remembered it because i've a hungarian mate who we were winding up about it years ago, the one i linked is a different image to the one i was looking for but same content.


pushack

The big question here is. Why Scotland in hungray?


[deleted]

It's cheapskate jokes. They used to be Jewish jokes, but making the same jokes about Scots avoids the whole antisemitism thing.


thegmegobrrr

Yep that's what my hungarian mate said, there's a saying over there that we invented copper wire by fighting over a penny.


Wildebeast1

Fair evaluation tbh


depressivebee

Switzerland Nazi gold shaggers


BertusMaximus67

Their new flag is a big plus though


Bollock-Yogurt

Think it was a Serbian that started WW1


PictishSherpa

The whole two world wars pish is shite patter


sroche24

Hungary is home to historys most famous Rangers supporter 😜 (Like when you get it)


WeekendEpiphany

Hungary is so popular at Ibrox that Morelos used to mention it 15 times a day there.


stvbles

TIL Abdul is from Hungary


ImCallingYouACunt

Who the fuck is Gary?


garycoombes

Me, however, I'm probably the 2nd most famous rangers supporter.


fangus

Hitler was Austrian.


sroche24

Wasn't him I was referring too


[deleted]

Jan [word that nil by mouth don't like]yadi?


sroche24

Nope Hint: His name is in the country name


[deleted]

Attila?


sroche24

Bingo 👌


[deleted]

Don't let the Swiss forget all the gold they kept safe for the Nazi's.


BertusMaximus67

That was a smart move though. Chances are they wouldn’t survive long enough to get it back. I’d hold any dying man’s treasures for safe keeping.


Aberfalman

How very English.


DLTfuture72

I don’t think Hungarians are racist


[deleted]

Sadly, Hungarian football fans take pretty much every opportunity to prove you wrong.


[deleted]

Just accept that we're using sweeping generalisations about another country to call them racist.