Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
Posted on 09/06/2019 6:37:00 AM PDT by C19fan
Sounds good. I’ll check it out.
Another one behind the paywall I HIGHLY recommend is the series on the collapse of the Roman Republic. A great account of how republics turn into totalitarian states.
The key to their success was a numerous organized military while most of their opponents were early feudal meaning a sort of mafia with king as a godfather, barons for bosses and knights for the mobsters. Early feudals were good to run a protection racket against tradesmen and peasants or to protect their turf against other such mobs read kingdoms but they stood no chance against Mongols fielding organized armies or highly trained horsemen numbered in tens of thousand.
Wish we could go back in time and find out what lies this little twerp had to say to get his power in the first place. Lies aside from being 'born to the manor' - born on third - thinking he hit a triple... (like half the fools living in DC today. Incompetent sons and grandsons of people who made it on merit...) I suspect those lies would sound the same across time too...
Oh, lets! We can tell the truth that it was Asiatic racism against whites at it’s worst.
Thanks fieldmarshaldj.
Let’s make him “toe the line.”
Last I read Moscow sent tributes to Ghengis Khan so his armies passed south of moscow. but I could have read the story wrong or it could have been about a later mogol general Subatai.
Been reading about genetics and early migration and the people from Russian steps comes up at lot.
The internet says my German surname was originally from the Russian steps.
But when I search my Ukrainian Grandfather’s surname they are all Mongolians!
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