Yeah, it also didn’t help when the Crusaders sacked Constantinople and set up the Latin Empire in 1261... The subsequent fighting between the various Crusader fiefdoms and the Nicaean state took fifty years and led to a crumbling of defenses against the Turks.
You can also watch on YouTube either live or, if you’re like me and go to bed early, the next morning. I like that the various conservative* channels on YouTube post the content with the commercials stripped out. I watch every morning around 6:30 AM.
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*Yes, there are still conservative content creators on YouTube.