The IRA style resistance predictions are getting vindicated i see.
Yep. It's dangerous being a collaborationist, thankfully!
The IRA style resistance predictions are getting vindicated i see.
First off this looks like it's setting up a strawman. No the Islamic empires weren't "pan confessional bastions of humanism and secular rights" No they were empires and they privileged Muslims above others. Yet others could live as second class citizens which is more than other nations at the time gave. Islamic Spain allowed Christians and Muslims to exist(second class citizens yes, your modern nation states would consider it apartheid and human rights violations yes), yet Christian Spain had expelled all it's Muslims and Jews. You can make a liberal argument that apartheid is bad, but then surely Nazi style ethnic cleansing is worse.
I'm sorry was Queen Isabel elected to the throne of Spain? EVERY powerful nation at that time was an autocracy, they all kept rule through brute force and thats how peace was kept.
Yes, Jews and Christians had higher taxes. They were second class citizens, I conceded this. Islamic Spain was not some liberal secular state where all men were equal. And I can sense the hostility on "the booty and tribute obtained in military incursions against Catholic lands." Do European Christian Kings not gain wealth from sacking foreign lands? And do they not also punish rebels mercilessly?
And this was what I was looking for. The Jews in Spain frequently betrayed the Christians to help the Muslims. Why is this, are Jews just naturally treacherous, or do they side with what is in their best interests like other humans? Now studies on Jews betraying anyone are hard to find, because of the uh political nature of the claim, but yes Muslims treated Jews not equal to Muslims, yes it's not a secular nation that tries to make all citizens equal. But here is the thing, they treated Jews, better than the Christian Kingdoms did. That's why the Jews were behind all those conspiracies.
No shit. I've never heard anyone say that Islam treated women equal to men. You'd have to be dumber than John Green and his Mongols were totally good to make a claim like "They were into women power like Norway and Sweden are today!" The most you can say is that Islam was better to women than what was BEFORE Islam. But considering Pagan societies had Sati, or burried girls alive, that's not a high bar. Yes Muslims and Christians in the 1800's and before agreed with keeping women in the kitchen.
we expect Russia to spy on everyone because thats how the game is played every one spys on everyone else.
What we don't expect them to do is fuck it up because spying is one of the few things their honestly pretty good at.
I'm fairly certain most of the western elite feel the same way; they just consider them useful deviants that are easy to manipulate into attacking their enemies.For those who think Ukraine is some sort of woke western puppet:
Top Zelensky advisor under fire for calling LGBT people 'deviants'
"The LGBT community is outraged and talking about my resignation. But look at this photo and you’ll understand who should be truly outraged. I think I’m being persecuted, no? I demand tolerance."thepostmillennial.com
> Ukranian govt official gets cancelled over extremely mild slight towards alphabet peopleFor those who think Ukraine is some sort of woke western puppet:
Top Zelensky advisor under fire for calling LGBT people 'deviants'
"The LGBT community is outraged and talking about my resignation. But look at this photo and you’ll understand who should be truly outraged. I think I’m being persecuted, no? I demand tolerance."thepostmillennial.com
Could be, or it could be western mercenaries.The IRA style resistance predictions are getting vindicated i see.
I am reminded of thisI'm fairly certain most of the western elite feel the same way; they just consider them useful deviants that are easy to manipulate into attacking their enemies.
Unsuccessfully.> Ukranian govt official gets cancelled over extremely mild slight towards alphabet people
Oh he went further than that.> he didn't actually say "they are deviants". he said it is a "deviation from the norm".
And then he proceeded to shitpost them with the later mentioned photo and quoted commentary.a clip of an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy saying that LGBTQ people are "people with disabilities" and a "deviation from the norm."
Are you too lazy or too incompetent to read? It's from his days as an actor. You know what actors do, right?> Also he is an alphabet person himself. The "girl" on the right is actually said top advisor in drag.
Again, unsuccessfully.> Under pressure by their woke masters to can him anyways
But he isn't some random party member, his name shows up a lot in the news.How exactly is this proof they are not a woke western puppet? Replace "top ukranian advisor" with "some rando conservative party member in the west" and you got tuesday.
He is part of the leadership.Also, being a woke puppet does not mean everyone in the country is woke. It means the country is occupied by a woke leadership who is quick to crackdown on any wrongthink whenever someone steps out of line to appease their masters.
Well, this should prove interesting. Without oil or gold to prop it up, Russia won't be able to keep the ruble strong for much longer, and this will limit trade goods they can get from others for no other reason than they cannot fall back on mineral wealth to sustain their economy.
That's not exactly news, it's just how slow the bureaucracies work, the decision was taken before the war.In other but related news, Poland has placed an absolutely massive foreign sales order for two hundred fifty new M1A2 SEPv(3) Abrams tanks, twenty-six Hercules combat recovery vehicles, seventeen assault bridgelayers, and comprehensive spare parts and training ammunition, adding up to six billion dollars worth of state of the art combat hardware. It would appear that Poland is drawing on some very specific memories about Russian invasions, and wishes to make it very, unmistakably clear that any attempt to repeat 1939 is going to go the way of the Battle of Klushino.
Well, this should prove interesting. Without oil or gold to prop it up, Russia won't be able to keep the ruble strong for much longer, and this will limit trade goods they can get from others for no other reason than they cannot fall back on mineral wealth to sustain their economy.
Waste of money.We should buy instead Warmate drones,Piorun Manpads,and 120mm mortars for territorial units.In other but related news, Poland has placed an absolutely massive foreign sales order for two hundred fifty new M1A2 SEPv(3) Abrams tanks, twenty-six Hercules combat recovery vehicles, seventeen assault bridgelayers, and comprehensive spare parts and training ammunition, adding up to six billion dollars worth of state of the art combat hardware. It would appear that Poland is drawing on some very specific memories about Russian invasions, and wishes to make it very, unmistakably clear that any attempt to repeat 1939 is going to go the way of the Battle of Klushino.
Waste of money.We should buy instead Warmate drones,Piorun Manpads,and 120mm mortars for territorial units.
And build our own Himars,instead of buing them - Belarus could do so,so we could do that,too.
Doing that anyway. You can't win wars with light infantry alone.Waste of money.We should buy instead Warmate drones,Piorun Manpads,and 120mm mortars for territorial units.
We could build our own HIMARS, but we couldn't build our own HIMARS missiles, which are the real selling point of the system.And build our own Himars,instead of buing them - Belarus could do so,so we could do that,too.
Yeah, sure, make your own F-35, up to date MBTs and tactical missiles. Compete with such miltech superpowers like Pakistan and North Korea.One of the purposes of NATO is to lock you into the American MIC. Now instead of developing your own domestic weapons, you get to the be dependent on the Americans.
If that land based trade route works as intended that's what they'll do and more.The rest of the world doesnt care and will continue to trade with Russia
Doing that anyway. You can't win wars with light infantry alone.
We could build our own HIMARS, but we couldn't build our own HIMARS missiles, which are the real selling point of the system.
Meanwhile Belarus has just put an old Smerch on a new truck.
Yeah, sure, make your own F-35, up to date MBTs and tactical missiles. Compete with such miltech superpowers like Pakistan and North Korea.
You have made a very general statement with an implication of for-profit conspiracy, yet you still don't bother to limit it, just dodge.I never claimed that poland should develop everything itself, thats obviously impossible.
Doing that anyway. You can't win wars with light infantry alone.
We could build our own HIMARS, but we couldn't build our own HIMARS missiles, which are the real selling point of the system.
Meanwhile Belarus has just put an old Smerch on a new truck.
Yeah, sure, make your own F-35, up to date MBTs and tactical missiles. Compete with such miltech superpowers like Pakistan and North Korea.