Message from @Scipio Americanus
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until ottomans got big, then they started going senile
@PunishedMuskovy you can thank the Mongols for that
The persians and byzantines were weakend by constant battles between each other tho
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oh no
@Khat Emperor yeah, they couldn't f****** figure out where the Border should be
Stupid Middle East with its lack of cleared Geographic boundaries
And then people wonder why Syria and Iraq or a f****** mess
Because they're savages.
no, that's the fault of colonialism. they drew borders on maps instead like Europe with sword and blood
@Bird Wizard true that's where the modern borders are, but trying to make a genuine borders would be nigh impossible.
yep, that's why they need a period of slaughter to properly draw borders
Truth is, besides the original Mesopotamian civilization, Iraq and Syria I've always been owned by either Anatolia, Persia, Arabia, or Egypt
Glass. The. Desert.
gay
or macedonia
thisincludesbosnians
@Bird Wizard I'm counting European powers as Anatolia
we wuz kangz
balkan power
Oh the Balkans, the Afghanistan of Europe
difference
Albanians=inbred
Well, from a Geographic point of view anyway
balkans actually got conquered on more than 1 occassion
no one except the mongols was able to touch afghanistan
not the british empire, not the soviets, and not america
That's not true. Afghanistan has been conquered plenty of times throughout history, the problem has always been asserting authority over the tribes.
but we are probbaly just there for opium
@PunishedMuskovy there is a difference between Total Conquest and simply exerting control over the area, you can conquer the valleys, but the hills are practically unconquerable
@εïз irma εïз omg leave
It's just a meme for pseudointellectual armchair historians to circlejerk over.
afghanistan is a death trap while balkans is furtile land
America didn't do half bad in Afganistan
Miguel did you ever deadlift more than 50 pounds?
yes
I agree with the dumb Cath on the Afghani shit being a circlejerk
I did 300 @εïз irma εïз