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Not to mention that Medieval Knights were getting trashed by longbows and pikes two hundred years before gunpowder really started being used.

Ironically, the current behaviour of the German establishment does nothing but strengthen the AfD. Suppressing the feeling of a good chunk of the population does not make it go away, it only galvanizes and attracts more to their banner as more and more people just become fed up with an inept...

Machine guns and howitzers make everything pretty damn conceivable.

Hm? Nah. Europeans, like all other peoples of the world, have been butchering each other for whatever reason since the dawn of civilisation. Modernity just coincides with us starting to really use gunpowder. If anything, a tad bit of restraint starts filtering in then. Compare the fall of Troy...

The twin catastrophes of the World Wars (and all the wrong lessons being learned from them) are pretty damn crucial to how Europe has ended up in its current mess. Things were chuntering along not too badly beforehand.