Posted on 02/02/2020 10:33:28 PM PST by nickcarraway
Because footstools went out of style.
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Because it was full of Muslims?
Not the most adaptive people in the world.
The Ottoman Empire falling pretty much led to world wars and destruction to this day. The fall of the USA would be cataclysmic.
No.
It was based on slavery. Didn’t matter what side they were on.
The world would no longer accept slavery as an economic basis.
One reason, Islam.
China is still around.
Illiteracy and lack of industry are key elements. In order to be somehow successful a metropoly needs to have some appeal among constituents. Turkey lacked in cultural and economic senses and it became especially critical in the era of technologies. They went downhill starting 18th century.
Modern Turkey is still underperforming because of poor education. There are too much illiterate bums doing stupid jobs or outright doing nothing. The environment allows to absent from a rat race which they luckily do. Then they blame Arabs for taking their jobs or Russians embargoed their exports or Jews ‘directing’ all the above.
Not the same.
See the “harvest of the Steppes”.
Ottoman Empire was entirely based on slaves. From Africa to Poland they gleaned slaves for profit.
China’s close though.
I’m shocked you would badmouth a strong ally of Russia.
What happened? Islam happened. This means backwardness, lack of education, falling woefully behind technologically, corruption on a massive scale. In short all the things that mark the Muslim world today. The only difference is that some of them pitched their tents over some of the biggest oilfields on earth.
Islam was there since the beginning.
Russia and Turkey are case study of arch enemies. You won’t find two other major nations warring with each other so much.
There were like a dozen wars between them since 16th century.
The Turks inherited a lot of technology the Byzantines/Greeks developed. Over the centuries, Europe had the Enlightenment. Science and technology took off. The Europeans sailed the oceans, discovered new continents, made a lot of money trading around the world, developed the technology that created the industrial revolution.....Meanwhile the Ottoman Empire stayed the same.
Turkey didn’t exist then. Yes, the Ottomans were enemies from the 16th century into the 19th century. But at the moment they are allies. Turkey buys a lot of Russian oil, and hosts many Russian tourists. They are strong allies. That is how I knew nothing would come of the Russian plane shot down.
You don’t need 6 reasons. It usually boils down to just one. They had to pay off European creditors. Everything else follows.
The Ottoman Empire was already falling apart before World War One. It was in the process of losing the Balkans piece by piece.
All that the war did is finish it off, the same as it did the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
No one today even seems to know that the Austro-Hungarian Empire existed, despite the fact that the assassination of one of its royal family ignited the whole mess.
Let’s say relatively close relation are novel starting about 1990s. That’s nothing comparing to 400 years of war. Especially in light of Ottoman aspirations of Erdogan government. Current Turkish colonization of Georgia and its incursions into Syria and Libya are showing.
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