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Yeah your soldiers eventually want to retire and spend all that loot they got to live in luxury rather than run the risk of dying in more war. They’d been at it continuously constantly for over a decade and India looked like a tough nut to crack with massive forces like the Nanda Empire up ahead and even relatively petty king Porus had put up a stiff resistance that killed a decent number of Greeks.

Later on one of the prominent warlords (Eumenes) was betrayed by these men because, even though he otherwise came off better in a fight against rival warlord Antigonus, the all important baggage train containing decades of booty, wives and kids was captured. So the veteran silver shields who are mostly old farts by this point mutinied and delivered him bound to the rival warlord Antigonus to ensure their long years of war would not be in vain.

Despite that miserable failure of that amphibious invasion, threatening the Ottomans from Thrace was ultimately successful at knocking them out of the war years later. The Vardar Offensive punched into Bulgarian occupied territories which zeroed out of the morale of the defenders and sparked mutinies, making the situation untenable and forcing Bulgaria to the table. Then the next domino fell. The Ottomans had committed too much in the east to handle a hypothetical sucker punch through Bulgarian territory to their capital while German supplies were simultaneously severed… hypothetically they could have evacuated to mainland Anatolia and then concentrated on the west, but their armies in Palestine had just been essentially deleted in the Battle of Megiddo leaving a path up through the Levant basically undefended so they figured that with two major fronts more or less undefended they were doomed even though they held quite a lot of gains in Iran and the Caucasus from after Russia went AFK and most of the core Turkish lands were not yet touched.

It’s too big and heavy for ICBMs to carry multiple times over, let alone a drone.

Anyway the main obstacle to use is that it’s a waste of weapons grade nuclear material to make such a thing because so much of the energy is being uselessly directed to to the sky and/or space. Which is why both sides redirected efforts to firing multiple smaller nukes instead of progressively bigger single nuke

The UK may be stagnating and with a grimmer future ahead of it than previous times but huge advances have been made in South & East Asia where nearly a couple billion people were previously enduring some of the most intense poverty in the world. Progress is not uniform, some places are backsliding including very prominent countries, but many people globally are also seeing improvements in their lives too.

Yeah they definitely should have negotiated the peace way sooner since that would have been less punitive. Had to ultimately sign off on even more insane losses for it later, though it was buoyed by a misplaced sense that whatever they signed wouldn’t really matter. They ideologically figured that the Entente and Central Powers alike were all actively collapsing and soon to be replaced by sympathetic revolutions across the continent which didn’t pan out

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With the Norwegian Crusade there’s no need to choose

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Until surprisingly recently at least for Canada those locations were actually even more hostile with ice sheets up to thousands of feet high smothering them. Part of the reason why that area has a crazy low diversity of plants and animals (aside from migratory birds going there to take advantage of low predators in the breeding season) is that basically anything remaining there was killed and it was recolonized with whatever plants and critters from the margins happened to be suitable enough to spread in afterwards. With the ice age other areas were once colder and wetter as well.

With respect to at least Egypt bear in mind that the areas frequently photographed are the dramatic desert parts looming over the sides of the river but they have very extensive lush lands along the Nile which is where nearly everyone actually lives.

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It’s one of the least effective methods out there