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@adanair23 @jakubwiech Czyli dosłownie chodzi o udział w konflikcie, skoro Iran ostrzeliwuje statki na cieśninie.

@jakubwiech Nikt nie prosił ich o włączenie do wojny. Prośba dotyczyła patroli na szlaku morskim, którym to do tych sojuszników płynie ich ropa.

Oho, prezydent Donald Trump nazwał swoich sojuszników z NATO „tchórzami”, bo nie chcieli się włączyć w jego wojnę z Iranem. Aha, jeszcze jest zły, że ludzie narzekają na wysokie ceny ropy. A ponoć wystarczy tylko otworzyć Cieśninę Ormuz, co jest - jego zdaniem - bardzo proste.

@jarekpoland19 @katarynaaa Pięknie dałeś się złapać na najgłupszy możliwy spin.

@katarynaaa Nie, poszło o to aby Polska nie była zakładnikiem Niemców!

A więc o kasę dla Amerykanów poszło?

@RomanSwobodaPL @katarynaaa

@katarynaaa Odzyska z procentami, przez takie kurwy jak ty.

Da się? Da się. Musk grzecznie płaci 120 milionów euro kary.

@doctorwhy1991 @nonregemesse It took long time before it run out of capital it inherited at the split of the Roman empire.

@Trylobotics @nonregemesse The Byzantine Empire lasted longer than the Spanish, French, and British Empires combined.

The east Roman Empire is severely underrated militarily as a result of centuries of lazy tropes and disinterest in their history. This is a thread on the greatest east Roman generals whose wars and campaigns are the stuff of legends! [Thread]🧵

@nonregemesse I said "to name a few", because of space limit. And as far as we know, the Frankish polity split but wasn't destroyed. Today's sovereign states are its direct continuation, in stark difference to the East Roman polity of which the final splinter (Venice) was destroyed in 1787.

@Trylobotics That’s seven groups and the Frankish empire split up relatively quickly. You’ve failed to cite anything remotely comparable to this:

The fact that the *Romans were so resilient in the face of such overwhelming odds is a reason why they aren’t overrated. People need to move beyond dated decline narratives.

@nonregemesse Tak a look at contemporary Franks for instance. They had to cope with Arabs&Berbers, Avars, Hungarians, Lombards, Byzantines, Saxons, Slavs of many flavors, Vikings, just to name a few. And you say only the Byzies had to cope with changing enemies and accuse others of dishonesty.

You have immediately descended into dishonesty. Did other nations have neighbours? Yes. Did other nations have a constantly changing set of enemies on their borders with entirely new peoples turning up regularly for a thousand years? No. They also defeated the Normans repeatedly so you’re wrong on the facts as well as your approach.

@realdibuk @Karmadillion @Civixplorer You were talking about who was the majority of population. Shifting goalposts, hilarious.

@Trylobotics @Karmadillion @Civixplorer Second while historical data from church records and citizen rolls confirm that German architects and craftsmen led the construction, the heavy physical labor and the hauling of the bricks were largely performed by Polish and Kashubian workers. But still, the germans built it.

Architectural revival with a modern twist in Gdańsk, Poland 🇵🇱

@realdibuk @Karmadillion @Civixplorer Of course, it teleported there. It has nothing to do with toxic German nationalism.

@Trylobotics @Karmadillion @Civixplorer First Danzig was primarily destroyed by the Soviet Red Army in 1945 through heavy shelling and systematic arson, following earlier British air raids.

@realdibuk @Karmadillion @Civixplorer Also, I don't care who you are. I care you spout nonsense in line with 19th century German nationalism.

@realdibuk @Karmadillion @Civixplorer There's literally zero data about who was the majority of population over centuries. All written sources focus on the mercantile elites and their interactions. A huge % of laborers must've been drawn from neighboring settlements and as such were to a large degree Poles & Kashubs.

@realdibuk @Karmadillion @Civixplorer German nationalism was and still remains toxic and self destructive.

@realdibuk @Karmadillion @Civixplorer So, Gdańsk existed earlier. And those who built THESE buildings were low Germans, Poles, Menonites, Kashubs, Dutch, Czechs, Scots and who knows what else. Only after the fall of Poland did the city homogenize into German one. And it resulted in its destruction, surprising noone.

@realdibuk @Karmadillion @Civixplorer It was built hundreds of years before they even set their foot there.

@Karmadillion @Civixplorer germans build Danzig lol

@nonregemesse Since 1071 it lived on borrowed time and none of its rulers was able to adres the fundamental weakness of the state.

@nonregemesse As a fan of Byzantine history - it's overrated. It's history is a long but steady territorial and cultural contraction. This was punctured by few (arguably 4) pulses of revival, which regained some of the previous loses but created more reasons for further contraction.

@Sam_Mindset @ZelenskyyUa Ukraine is at war, defending itself from aggression. Of course war speeds up R&D. It always has.

@ZelenskyyUa “So we’re fast-tracking missile and drone production with foreign partners while claiming it’s all about ‘protecting lives’? Let’s be honest—this is turning Ukraine into a live-fire testing ground for European defense companies. War as R&D isn’t exactly a comforting thought.”

I met with the leadership of the Spanish engineering and technology group Sener Aerospace & Defence. Today, Ukrainian manufacturers signed four cooperation documents here, three of which are specifically with Sener. The agreements concern establishing cooperation in the missile sector and air defense. This is what will strengthen the protection of Ukraine’s skies. We discussed production capabilities and bolstering Ukraine’s air defense. Strengthening air defense and protecting lives are our top priorities. We are also interested in joint projects in the field of long-range drone production. Ukraine has new developments and is ready to scale them up. We expect that all agreements between Ukrainian and Spanish manufacturers will be implemented as soon as possible. Thank you for your support and readiness to work together.

@Draniki5 Poles on both sides of the border.

Lowkey what's going on in this area. Fertilization.

@MemoryMedieval Even places which they merely passed though like Poland and Hungary were never the same and suffered crushing consequences that lasted centuries.

@MemoryMedieval After other places like Iran, China or Russia freed themselves from the Mongol yoke, they all turned into authoritarian hellholes with overbearing central government and serfdom.

People will hate this but it has to be said.. Genghis Khan is vastly overrated. Yeah, the Mongols conquered a lot of stuff. They were good at war. But that's it. They didn't contribute to human society in any measurable way that affects anyone today. I will bet money you've never eaten a buuz dumpling or listen to throat singing. A large part of the Mongol's success comes from their sheer brutality towards common folk. And brutalize the common folk they did. Sack a castle and kill everyone. Come back two weeks later when people are rummaging through the wreckage and kill everyone again. Capture a bunch of men, women, and children, and make them march at the head of the army's assault, taking the casualties and filling up moats with their corpses. So sure, the war machine was impressive but the slaughter of millions of peasants is (aside from kind of sickening to consider) entirely unimpressive. And in exchange for the slaughter of so many the world got.... ? Mid asian food and terrible music? Weird horse products? "They are inhuman and beastly, rather monsters than men, thirsting for and drinking blood, tearing and devouring the flesh of dogs and men, dressed in ox-hides, armed with plates of iron... bulky, strong, invincible, untiring... They are without human laws, know no comforts, are more ferocious than lions or bears." - Matthew Paris (English Benedictine monk in the 1240s) "They should be called monsters rather than human beings, thirsting after and drinking blood, tearing apart and devouring the corpses of dogs and humans... Devoid of human laws, they have no knowledge of clemency.." "They are extremely arrogant toward other people, [and] tend to anger... easily... They are the greatest liars in the world in dealing with other people... They are crafty and sly... [and] have an admirable ability to keep their intentions secret... They are messy in their eating and drinking and in their whole way of life, [and] cling fiercely to what they have. They have no conscience about killing other people..." -John of Plano Carpini (1240s) "One cannot sufficiently defame the cruelty and artful ability for deception of that people... a certain ill-bred breed of inhuman humans, whose law is lawlessness, whose wrath is furious... overrunning countless lands, which it is dreadfully devastating, killing and horribly exterminating by fire all who stand in their way." -Ivo of Narbonne (1240s) A disgusting people who happen to get very, very good at warfare but highly overrated by people who value martial excellence.