Re: #92 - Main news thread - conflicts, terrorism, crisis from around the globe

[Pirata]

https://twitter.com/Syria_Protector/status/1503122298743762944?cxt=HHwWgMC56YnxlNwpAAAA

https://twitter.com/KarlreMarks/status/1502959772873764868

https://twitter.com/CaoYi_MFA/status/1502760828856061958

https://twitter.com/timand2037/status/1502867434088415235

The West just lost the Meme war.. everybody with 2 functioning braincells left is either ashamed of wishes Russia a swift victory.

[刘汉]

Russian MOD: “As a result of today’s strike, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large batch of foreign weapons were destroyed”

“The destruction of foreign mercenaries who have arrived on the territory of Ukraine will continue”

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) March 13, 2022

[刘汉]

#BREAKING
US Nat'l Security Advisor #JakeSullivan will meet Mon. in #Rome w/ Chinese Communist Party Politburo member / the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission's director re: multiple topics, incl. #Russia's invasion of #Ukraine, per US NSC stmt.#Putin #Zelensky #China pic.twitter.com/fuJd0M14lh

— Devon Heinen (@DevonHeinen) March 13, 2022

[刘汉]

Why privately? https://t.co/yyrW2baITN

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) March 13, 2022

Why privately? US remember well the meeting at Anchorage, where they got a slap into their face by the Chinese live on TV.

[Böhse Tante]

A small side note about an observation my daughter made.

In Germany, there is the fabulous deposit system for beverage cans and plastic bottles. For every empty bottle or can you get 25 €-cent. For years there has been the "phenomenon" that pensioners (have to) supplement their pensions with this - one could get the idea that this is already priced into the small pensions.

Yesterday, my daughter told me that she had noticed more and more younger people searching for cans and bottles in rubbish bins and bushes.

But Germany is doing well, just not the people.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[khnum]

Russian MOD: “As a result of today’s strike, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large batch of foreign weapons were destroyed”

“The destruction of foreign mercenaries who have arrived on the territory of Ukraine will continue”

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) March 13, 2022

In my library there is an 8 volume set 'The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire' by Edward Gibbon. Rome made 2 great mistakes they debased their currency,something the Western world especially the US is currently doing and they went for mercenary armies,which the US is also doing.

With mercenaries these days its all about the bottom line and accounting, properly trained Western troops don't come cheap so nowadays many firms hire from places like the Sudan and Somalia.

There are some benefits though; if its Blackwater/XE/Academi types killed there's plausible deniability the Pentagon,CIA whoever will just deny knowledge,other benefits include you don't have to fly them home or bury them and if injured Veterans affairs doesn't have to deal with them.

[Pirata]

https://twitter.com/nolanwpeterson/status/1503004351975075845?cxt=HHwWisC59dWf39spAAAA

This never had to happen. The west refused to admit the strategic loss of their staging point but the evidence is already on the net...

https://twitter.com/politblogme/status/1503058927893762049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Are the Ukies that fight for Obidens Endsieg really this dense? Apparently..

[der_mick]

This never had to happen. The west refused to admit the strategic loss of their staging point but the evidence is already on the net...

https://twitter.com/politblogme/status/1503058927893762049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Are the Ukies that fight for Obidens Endsieg really this dense? Apparently..

What was this about? She deleted her Tweets, saying that she is "not so sure about it anymore".

[刘汉]

Russian MOD: “As a result of today’s strike, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large batch of foreign weapons were destroyed”

“The destruction of foreign mercenaries who have arrived on the territory of Ukraine will continue”

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) March 13, 2022

In my library there is an 8 volume set 'The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire' by Edward Gibbon. Rome made 2 great mistakes they debased their currency,something the Western world especially the US is currently doing and they went for mercenary armies,which the US is also doing.

With mercenaries these days its all about the bottom line and accounting, properly trained Western troops don't come cheap so nowadays many firms hire from places like the Sudan and Somalia.

There are some benefits though; if its Blackwater/XE/Academi types killed there's plausible deniability the Pentagon,CIA whoever will just deny knowledge,other benefits include you don't have to fly them home or bury them and if injured Veterans affairs doesn't have to deal with them.

There is a difference between modern mercenaries like Blackwater and Roman mercanaries.
Rome enlisted Germans in the regular Roman military. Germans rose through the ranks and learnt everything, that was necessary to learn. Then they left, went home, taught their fellow Germans about Roman military and attacked the Romans. So they successfully brought down the Western part of the empire. The Eastern part learnt this lesson. They still had a bodyguard for the emperor made up of Germans, the Waräger guard. But these Germans were loyal to the emperor. In this guard the Norvegians learnt enough to threaten Western Europe as "Vikings". They were the last men standing during the horrible crusade, funded by Venice and directed against Byzantion.
China under the Tang dynasty and the Abbasid Caliphs made the same mistake and hired Central Asian (mostly Perso-Turkish) mercenaries. This led the serious crises of the An Lushan uprising (750s and 760s) and the Downfall of the Barmakids (803). (There is much more to these crises, because they are connected via the Manichaeans and the Chazars could have been involved) They all learnt from these experiences.
Modern mercenaries are not integrated into the regular military. The Romans, the Chinese and the Muslims could not distance themselves from them and say: That's not us. Because they were serving under the same flag. And that was not the problem with them. These Late Ancient - Early Middle Age mercenaries threatened the state at the core. They were present in the capital and involved in conspiracies and uprisings.
What is comparable, is: The Romans let into their empire non-Romans and gave them citizenship. The Roman empire was not a nation-state. So in the crisis nobody was willing to defend the "Romans". They defended themselves against the central state. That is why the Eastern part changed its identity from "Roman" to "Greek", even if it was still called "Roman". US is not a nation-state. China was able to overcome this crisis, because it is Chinese. The Caliphate tried to overcome this crisis by creating the Arabic umma, but by doing so, they excluded the Persians. The Romans came out of this crisis by changing from Latin to Greek and lost the Western part (and Egypt) forever.
If US is undergoing such a crisis, they have no chance to survive.

[Pirata]

https://twitter.com/RonPaulInstitut/status/1503152164763541504?cxt=HHwWgIC5gcG7otwpAAAA

https://twitter.com/Lukewearechange/status/1503097693102559233?cxt=HHwWgsCywevYidwpAAAA

[Böhse Tante]

This never had to happen. The west refused to admit the strategic loss of their staging point but the evidence is already on the net...

https://twitter.com/politblogme/status/1503058927893762049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Are the Ukies that fight for Obidens Endsieg really this dense? Apparently..

What was this about? She deleted her Tweets, saying that she is "not so sure about it anymore".

.

What I found on her Account:

Nothing special. Just some Ukrainians in a Polish supermarket. pic.twitter.com/kYb6ishtyI

— Maria Dubovikova (@politblogme) March 13, 2022

Very nice. What is the situation in supermarkets in Ukraine? Will these nice guys now " broadcast" back home what great things there are on the other side of the border? I wish the transatlantic ass-kissing Poles a few million more like them before they set off for the "promised land" of Germany. I only hope that the German idiots will then be smacked in the face by their endless stupidity. But I fear that even then they won't wake up.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[Pirata]

Russian MOD: “As a result of today’s strike, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large batch of foreign weapons were destroyed”

“The destruction of foreign mercenaries who have arrived on the territory of Ukraine will continue”

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) March 13, 2022

In my library there is an 8 volume set 'The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire' by Edward Gibbon. Rome made 2 great mistakes they debased their currency,something the Western world especially the US is currently doing and they went for mercenary armies,which the US is also doing.

With mercenaries these days its all about the bottom line and accounting, properly trained Western troops don't come cheap so nowadays many firms hire from places like the Sudan and Somalia.

There are some benefits though; if its Blackwater/XE/Academi types killed there's plausible deniability the Pentagon,CIA whoever will just deny knowledge,other benefits include you don't have to fly them home or bury them and if injured Veterans affairs doesn't have to deal with them.

There is a difference between modern mercenaries like Blackwater and Roman  mercanaries.
Rome enlisted Germans in the regular Roman military. Germans rose through the ranks and learnt everything, that was necessary to learn. Then they left, went home, taught their fellow Germans about Roman military and attacked the Romans. So they successfully brought down the Western part of the empire. The Eastern part learnt this lesson. They still had a bodyguard for the emperor made up of Germans, the Waräger guard. But these Germans were loyal to the emperor. In this guard the Norvegians learnt enough to threaten Western Europe as "Vikings". They were the last men standing during the horrible crusade, funded by Venice and directed against Byzantion.
China under the Tang dynasty and the Abbasid Caliphs made the same mistake and hired Central Asian (mostly Perso-Turkish) mercenaries. This led the serious crises of the An Lushan uprising (750s and 760s) and the Downfall of the Barmakids (803). (There is much more to these crises, because they are connected via the Manichaeans and the Chazars could have been involved) They all learnt from these experiences.
Modern mercenaries are not integrated into the regular military. The Romans, the Chinese and the Muslims could not distance themselves from them and say: That's not us.  Because they were serving under the same flag. And that was not the problem with them. These Late Ancient - Early Middle Age mercenaries threatened the state at the core. They were present in the capital and involved in conspiracies and uprisings.
What is comparable, is: The Romans let into their empire non-Romans and gave them citizenship. The Roman empire was not a nation-state. So in the crisis nobody was willing to defend the "Romans". They defended themselves against the central state. That is why the Eastern part changed its identity from "Roman" to "Greek", even if it was still called "Roman". US is not a nation-state. China was able to overcome this crisis, because it is Chinese. The Caliphate tried to overcome this crisis by creating the Arabic umma, but by doing so, they excluded the Persians. The Romans came out of this crisis by changing from Latin to Greek and lost the Western part (and Egypt) forever.
If US is undergoing such a crisis, they have no chance to survive.

The Roman Empire had it's ups and downs and it became an Empire because they were able to embrace superior techologies of other great peoples and then developed their own great technologies. They were also a Republic.. but today most focus on the negative periods. Caesar was a complete despot, but schools in the EU teach him as a poor victim and regard him as a great statesman and hero, that tells us all we need to know. The Roman Empire only continued to exist from 300 B.C. to 300 A.D. due to Yugoslavs keeping it together, 4 or 5 Croats became Emperor of Rome, of which Diocletian was one, Constantin, a Serb was another one. The socalled Dark Ages are a direct result of half a millenia of Muslim Conquest efforts, over 500 military expeditions, a constant barrage of attacks eventually brought down ancient Rome, but this fact is also completely eliminated from your history lessons. The 13 Crusades are a fucking joke compared to the war efforts of the Ottoman Empire, and it wasn't Vienna that saved Europe. It was crazy Hillbillies of the Balkans, Western Europe aren't Muslims today because the East and Southern Slavic people could not be conquered like Portugal and Spain. Herman the German [Arminius] wasn't a mercanary, he was a hostage and took revenge in the Teuteburger forest, but when he tried his Roman lifestyle experience on the local tribes he got slain by them like a dog, they weren't  ready for "kingdom building" just yet.

Later Charlemagne basically genocided all the German tribes, this is why east of Rhine all German speakers are actually Slavs and all people West of the Rhine are Celts, vast majority of residents are only German in name. Only 8% remaining "germanic" DNA, 10% still Jewish, what a shocker huh?! The most "germanic" people still in existence are Bosniaks with incredible 65% y-Haplotype I and Croats with 50%, Ukraine about 35%, Norway 40, Sweden 42% ,Denmark 16% Iceland and Sardegna as well, oh and Vikings weren't an ethinicity, it was a "lifestyle", like the Huns, another "lifestyle". Or the mongols, also a "lifestyle".. who later became the Khazars and so on by intermarrying into [raping] local populations, their "lifestyle" of pillaging productive humans hasn't changed much, it's easier to pillage and plunder then to farm and produce, isn't that right.. our entire Western world and beyond is run run by a tiny elite with that exact "lifestyle"..

[Mr Badger]

Air raid alert almost all over Ukraine:

Kyiv, Sumy, Lvov, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Cherkasy, Poltava, Khmelnitsky regions, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Volyn, Rivne, Odessa, Kropyvnytsky, Izmail and other settlements.

— Spriter (@spriter99880) March 14, 2022

[khnum]

Air raid alert almost all over Ukraine:

Kyiv, Sumy, Lvov, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Cherkasy, Poltava, Khmelnitsky regions, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil, Volyn, Rivne, Odessa, Kropyvnytsky, Izmail and other settlements.

— Spriter (@spriter99880) March 14, 2022

Elint News is Reporting Russian Strategic bombers airborne,probable cruise missile strikes on the way

[Böhse Tante]

.

One question remains for me, in order to be considered a human being in the future, do you now have to have a swastika tattooed on your forehead in addition to your health ID, or is a clearly visible blue and yellow badge enough?

[刘汉]

Russian MOD: “As a result of today’s strike, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large batch of foreign weapons were destroyed”

“The destruction of foreign mercenaries who have arrived on the territory of Ukraine will continue”

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) March 13, 2022

In my library there is an 8 volume set 'The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire' by Edward Gibbon. Rome made 2 great mistakes they debased their currency,something the Western world especially the US is currently doing and they went for mercenary armies,which the US is also doing.

With mercenaries these days its all about the bottom line and accounting, properly trained Western troops don't come cheap so nowadays many firms hire from places like the Sudan and Somalia.

There are some benefits though; if its Blackwater/XE/Academi types killed there's plausible deniability the Pentagon,CIA whoever will just deny knowledge,other benefits include you don't have to fly them home or bury them and if injured Veterans affairs doesn't have to deal with them.

There is a difference between modern mercenaries like Blackwater and Roman  mercanaries.
Rome enlisted Germans in the regular Roman military. Germans rose through the ranks and learnt everything, that was necessary to learn. Then they left, went home, taught their fellow Germans about Roman military and attacked the Romans. So they successfully brought down the Western part of the empire. The Eastern part learnt this lesson. They still had a bodyguard for the emperor made up of Germans, the Waräger guard. But these Germans were loyal to the emperor. In this guard the Norvegians learnt enough to threaten Western Europe as "Vikings". They were the last men standing during the horrible crusade, funded by Venice and directed against Byzantion.
China under the Tang dynasty and the Abbasid Caliphs made the same mistake and hired Central Asian (mostly Perso-Turkish) mercenaries. This led the serious crises of the An Lushan uprising (750s and 760s) and the Downfall of the Barmakids (803). (There is much more to these crises, because they are connected via the Manichaeans and the Chazars could have been involved) They all learnt from these experiences.
Modern mercenaries are not integrated into the regular military. The Romans, the Chinese and the Muslims could not distance themselves from them and say: That's not us.  Because they were serving under the same flag. And that was not the problem with them. These Late Ancient - Early Middle Age mercenaries threatened the state at the core. They were present in the capital and involved in conspiracies and uprisings.
What is comparable, is: The Romans let into their empire non-Romans and gave them citizenship. The Roman empire was not a nation-state. So in the crisis nobody was willing to defend the "Romans". They defended themselves against the central state. That is why the Eastern part changed its identity from "Roman" to "Greek", even if it was still called "Roman". US is not a nation-state. China was able to overcome this crisis, because it is Chinese. The Caliphate tried to overcome this crisis by creating the Arabic umma, but by doing so, they excluded the Persians. The Romans came out of this crisis by changing from Latin to Greek and lost the Western part (and Egypt) forever.
If US is undergoing such a crisis, they have no chance to survive.

The Roman Empire had it's ups and downs and it became an Empire because they were able to embrace superior techologies of other great peoples and then developed their own great technologies. They were also a Republic.. but today most focus on the negative periods. Caesar was a complete despot, but schools in the EU teach him as a poor victim and regard him as a great statesman and hero, that tells us all we need to know. The Roman Empire only continued to exist from 300 B.C. to 300 A.D. due to Yugoslavs keeping it together, 4 or 5 Croats became Emperor of Rome, of which Diocletian was one, Constantin, a Serb was another one. The socalled Dark Ages are a direct result of half a millenia of Muslim Conquest efforts, over 500 military expeditions, a constant barrage of attacks eventually brought down ancient Rome, but this fact is also completely eliminated from your history lessons. The 13 Crusades are a fucking joke compared to the war efforts of the Ottoman Empire, and it wasn't Vienna that saved Europe. It was crazy Hillbillies of the Balkans, Western Europe aren't Muslims today because the East and Southern Slavic people could not be conquered like Portugal and Spain. Herman the German [Arminius] wasn't a mercanary, he was a hostage and took revenge in the Teuteburger forest, but when he tried his Roman lifestyle experience on the local tribes he got slain by them like a dog, they weren't  ready for "kingdom building" just yet.

Later Charlemagne basically genocided all the German tribes, this is why east of Rhine all German speakers are actually Slavs and all people West of the Rhine are Celts, vast majority of residents are only German in name. Only 8% remaining "germanic" DNA, 10% still Jewish, what a shocker huh?! The most "germanic" people still in existence are Bosniaks with incredible 65% y-Haplotype I and Croats with 50%, Ukraine about 35%, Norway 40, Sweden 42% ,Denmark 16% Iceland and Sardegna as well, oh and Vikings weren't an ethinicity, it was a "lifestyle", like the Huns, another "lifestyle". Or the mongols, also a "lifestyle".. who later became the Khazars and so on by intermarrying into [raping] local populations, their "lifestyle" of pillaging productive humans hasn't changed much, it's easier to pillage and plunder then to farm and produce, isn't that right.. our entire Western world and beyond is run run by a tiny elite with that exact "lifestyle"..

No comment to this nonsense.

[刘汉]

The new Covid situation in China. The number of cases is just exploding during the last days.

[Mr Badger]

Let me be clear: if my country formally declares a state of war to exist with Russia, then so be it—I’ll act accordingly. But until that time, I will advocate for sound policy that doesn’t have us defending undemocratic neo-Nazi facilitators and supporters.

— Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) March 14, 2022

[Böhse Tante]

.

New term for the mercenaries: democracy jihadists.

[khnum]

The new Covid situation in China. The number of cases is just exploding during the last days.

FYI sometimes I 'like' posts if they are a good rant or dummy spit.

17 MILLION PLUS in lockown again.

Some social media is leaking out of China claiming their vaccine causes luekemia

[Böhse Tante]

https://www.heise.de/forum/Telepolis/Kommentare/Jetzt-kennen-wir-keine-Parteien-mehr/Telepolis-auf-NATO-Watch-List/posting-40670981/show/

Telepolis on NATO Watch List

Abyalala wrote on 13/03/2022 17:46:

https://stratcomcoe.org/publications/information-laundering-in-germany/23

So watch what you guys write here.

WOW ...



Sorry, seems that was mainly BS. I let it stand here as an example to where it leads if you aren't careful. Then you write something that's mainly wrong and give munitions to the "enemy".

[khnum]

https://www.heise.de/forum/Telepolis/Kommentare/Jetzt-kennen-wir-keine-Parteien-mehr/Telepolis-auf-NATO-Watch-List/posting-40670981/show/

Telepolis on NATO Watch List

Abyalala wrote on 13/03/2022 17:46:

https://stratcomcoe.org/publications/information-laundering-in-germany/23

So watch what you guys write here.

WOW ...

There are still some good forums like this one but as for social media most truth tellers have by now been defunded,patreon and paypal accounts shut down,deplatformed from facebook,instagram and twitter and their work pulled off the net- whats left with rare exceptions are either straight out disinformation agents or controlled opposition which is quite crazy because most people have been on the net 20 years or more I guess our memories are the next thing they'll want to erase.

As for different opinions,crazy theories there are about 7 billion different versions of the truth on this planet and I doubt any one of them out there knows the all of it,I don't profess to know 'the truth' but as I get older I get a much better grasp of what is not the truth.

If we were all the same we would be on a world run by Klaus Schwab,Henry Kissenger,Soros or similar, so to all people here I may not share your opinions but I will defend your right to express them.

[刘汉]

China’s State Media and Government Officials Are Backing Russia on Ukrainehttps://t.co/w27GJkNgHk

— EndGameWW3 (@EndGameWW3) March 14, 2022

[刘汉]

Residents of the besieged #Mariupol continue to hide in the basements of residential buildings.

the women recorded a video message to Zelensky and his wife asking them to resolve the issue of the humanitarian corridor, stop using them as human shields and allow.... pic.twitter.com/wxcb7FZtCy

— Таино (@Omani1love) March 14, 2022

[刘汉]

عاجل | المتحدث باسم السفارة الصينية في واشنطن: لم أسمع مطلقا أن روسيا طلبت من بيجين مساعدات عسكرية لحرب أوكرانيا

— الجزيرة - عاجل (@AJABreaking) March 13, 2022

Spokesman for the Chinese Embassy in Washington: I have never heard that Russia asked Beijing for military aid for Ukraine war

[刘汉]

في ديرالزورفتح التطوع للقتال إلى جانب القوات الروسية في أوكرانيا
ونشرت صفحة المركز التلفزيون والاذاعي بديرالزور التابعة للنظام السوري خبراً مفاده فتح باب التطويع في صفوف القوات الروسية في الغزو الأوكراني مقابل مبلغ مادي شهري يقدر(1500يورو) وبدل للطعام.@Liveuamap #صدى_الشرقية pic.twitter.com/vipyRlM5OT

— Sada AlSharqieh (@Sada_AlSharqieh) March 13, 2022

The Pro-Assad forces's TV and Radio Center page published news that mercenaries in the ranks of the Russian forces in the Ukrainian invasion to be paid an estimated monthly amount of 1500 euros and food allowance

[刘汉]

Spent the afternoon with @madwonk confirming various geolocations made by others (@obretix esp). We agree Iran launched the missiles from the Seyed Al-Shohada barracks (37.903, 45.919°), a location used for missile launches in 2018.https://t.co/nzPi0AXwuq

— Dr. Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk) March 13, 2022

#Iraq’s ministry of foreign affairs summons Iranian Ambassador in #Baghdad, Iraj Masjidi, following the #Iran’s missile attack against #Erbil.

— Blesa Shaways (@Bilesa_Shaweys) March 13, 2022

[刘汉]

https://t.me/bakinskiy_nord/18965

https://caucasus.liveuamap.com/en/2022/13-march-the-new-president-of-armenia-vahagn-khachaturian

The new President of Armenia Vahagn Khachaturian officially took office at inauguration ceremony

[刘汉]

Суспільне Одеса

Корабельне угруповання РФ в акваторії Чорного моря перебуває у повній бойовій готовності – Генштаб ЗСУ
t.me/suspilneodesa
/9428

Naval group of the Russian Federation in the Black Sea is in full combat readiness - General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

Ropucha class just south of Snake Island today. (@planet) pic.twitter.com/VpSwjxWvB0

— Chris Biggers (@CSBiggers) March 13, 2022

It seems, everything is finally ready now to go to Odessa.

[der_mick]

Russian MOD: “As a result of today’s strike, up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large batch of foreign weapons were destroyed”

“The destruction of foreign mercenaries who have arrived on the territory of Ukraine will continue”

— Jack Posobiec (@JackPosobiec) March 13, 2022

In my library there is an 8 volume set 'The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire' by Edward Gibbon. Rome made 2 great mistakes they debased their currency,something the Western world especially the US is currently doing and they went for mercenary armies,which the US is also doing.

With mercenaries these days its all about the bottom line and accounting, properly trained Western troops don't come cheap so nowadays many firms hire from places like the Sudan and Somalia.

There are some benefits though; if its Blackwater/XE/Academi types killed there's plausible deniability the Pentagon,CIA whoever will just deny knowledge,other benefits include you don't have to fly them home or bury them and if injured Veterans affairs doesn't have to deal with them.

There is a difference between modern mercenaries like Blackwater and Roman  mercanaries.
Rome enlisted Germans in the regular Roman military. Germans rose through the ranks and learnt everything, that was necessary to learn. Then they left, went home, taught their fellow Germans about Roman military and attacked the Romans. So they successfully brought down the Western part of the empire. The Eastern part learnt this lesson. They still had a bodyguard for the emperor made up of Germans, the Waräger guard. But these Germans were loyal to the emperor. In this guard the Norvegians learnt enough to threaten Western Europe as "Vikings". They were the last men standing during the horrible crusade, funded by Venice and directed against Byzantion.
China under the Tang dynasty and the Abbasid Caliphs made the same mistake and hired Central Asian (mostly Perso-Turkish) mercenaries. This led the serious crises of the An Lushan uprising (750s and 760s) and the Downfall of the Barmakids (803). (There is much more to these crises, because they are connected via the Manichaeans and the Chazars could have been involved) They all learnt from these experiences.
Modern mercenaries are not integrated into the regular military. The Romans, the Chinese and the Muslims could not distance themselves from them and say: That's not us.  Because they were serving under the same flag. And that was not the problem with them. These Late Ancient - Early Middle Age mercenaries threatened the state at the core. They were present in the capital and involved in conspiracies and uprisings.
What is comparable, is: The Romans let into their empire non-Romans and gave them citizenship. The Roman empire was not a nation-state. So in the crisis nobody was willing to defend the "Romans". They defended themselves against the central state. That is why the Eastern part changed its identity from "Roman" to "Greek", even if it was still called "Roman". US is not a nation-state. China was able to overcome this crisis, because it is Chinese. The Caliphate tried to overcome this crisis by creating the Arabic umma, but by doing so, they excluded the Persians. The Romans came out of this crisis by changing from Latin to Greek and lost the Western part (and Egypt) forever.
If US is undergoing such a crisis, they have no chance to survive.

The Roman Empire had it's ups and downs and it became an Empire because they were able to embrace superior techologies of other great peoples and then developed their own great technologies. They were also a Republic.. but today most focus on the negative periods. Caesar was a complete despot, but schools in the EU teach him as a poor victim and regard him as a great statesman and hero, that tells us all we need to know. The Roman Empire only continued to exist from 300 B.C. to 300 A.D. due to Yugoslavs keeping it together, 4 or 5 Croats became Emperor of Rome, of which Diocletian was one, Constantin, a Serb was another one. The socalled Dark Ages are a direct result of half a millenia of Muslim Conquest efforts, over 500 military expeditions, a constant barrage of attacks eventually brought down ancient Rome, but this fact is also completely eliminated from your history lessons. The 13 Crusades are a fucking joke compared to the war efforts of the Ottoman Empire, and it wasn't Vienna that saved Europe. It was crazy Hillbillies of the Balkans, Western Europe aren't Muslims today because the East and Southern Slavic people could not be conquered like Portugal and Spain. Herman the German [Arminius] wasn't a mercanary, he was a hostage and took revenge in the Teuteburger forest, but when he tried his Roman lifestyle experience on the local tribes he got slain by them like a dog, they weren't  ready for "kingdom building" just yet.

Later Charlemagne basically genocided all the German tribes, this is why east of Rhine all German speakers are actually Slavs and all people West of the Rhine are Celts, vast majority of residents are only German in name. Only 8% remaining "germanic" DNA, 10% still Jewish, what a shocker huh?! The most "germanic" people still in existence are Bosniaks with incredible 65% y-Haplotype I and Croats with 50%, Ukraine about 35%, Norway 40, Sweden 42% ,Denmark 16% Iceland and Sardegna as well, oh and Vikings weren't an ethinicity, it was a "lifestyle", like the Huns, another "lifestyle". Or the mongols, also a "lifestyle".. who later became the Khazars and so on by intermarrying into [raping] local populations, their "lifestyle" of pillaging productive humans hasn't changed much, it's easier to pillage and plunder then to farm and produce, isn't that right.. our entire Western world and beyond is run run by a tiny elite with that exact "lifestyle"..

No comment to this nonsense.

It's very interesting to hear you guys talk about this stuff but it's sad, that we get such high tensions here, when it comes to history.
This is not a critique against anybody in particular, but still we have a problem when it comes to history. I Wonder why that is.
I can't judge what's true or not wrt this.

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