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To: lowbridge

If diversity truly was strength, Austro-Hungary would have won the First World War.

As it was though, they sent their troops to battle wearing cardboard shoes.


2 posted on 05/05/2021 9:48:54 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

They also had to issue orders in a dozen languages.

Truly a recipe for success.


5 posted on 05/05/2021 9:51:46 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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To: BenLurkin

The Allies offering a piece of the empire to Italy in exchange for that country’s flipping to the Allies didn’t help much either.


25 posted on 05/05/2021 11:31:35 AM PDT by Captain Walker ("Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things." - G. K. Chesterton)
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