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Have no politics, just thoughts. Evolving like anyone's. Destruction is creation, creation is destruction. 🎆 Like nerd stuff, Sci & Fi. UAP 🛸 🔄≠ endorsement.
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It's easy to understand when there are moments where this is hardest.
Scientific research on history has shown that large genocidal empires, the seeds of civilization, form where there are large cultural gaps that make it almost impossible for people to understand each other...
Scientific research on history has shown that large genocidal empires, the seeds of civilization, form where there are large cultural gaps that make it almost impossible for people to understand each other...
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Finally an official confirmation that anti-drone systems from Polish APS are used in Ukraine.
Unofficially we knew there are several in use as well as possibly 100s of radars from this manufacturer in Gdynia.
Unofficially we knew there are several in use as well as possibly 100s of radars from this manufacturer in Gdynia.
November 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Finally an official confirmation that anti-drone systems from Polish APS are used in Ukraine.
Unofficially we knew there are several in use as well as possibly 100s of radars from this manufacturer in Gdynia.
Unofficially we knew there are several in use as well as possibly 100s of radars from this manufacturer in Gdynia.
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What the hell
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Zuma’s Daughter Linked to Recruiting Africans for Russian War
The daughter of former South African President Jacob Zuma has been involved in recruiting men from South Africa and Botswana for service with Russian forces in its war against Ukraine, according to pe...
www.bloomberg.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:29 AM
What the hell
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Without an alien "other" to dwarf the relatively minor differences between Greek city-states, they continued to focus on fighting/dehumanizing each other with Sparta famously enslaving fellow Greek city-states & uniquely/horrifically declaring war on defenseless subjects
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November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Without an alien "other" to dwarf the relatively minor differences between Greek city-states, they continued to focus on fighting/dehumanizing each other with Sparta famously enslaving fellow Greek city-states & uniquely/horrifically declaring war on defenseless subjects
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The Peloponnesian league didn't fare better. After they won, Sparta tried to impose their will on the other city states which resulted in the alienation of allies such as Corinth and Thebes.
The latter would eventually break the back of Spartan power over Greece
The latter would eventually break the back of Spartan power over Greece
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The Peloponnesian league didn't fare better. After they won, Sparta tried to impose their will on the other city states which resulted in the alienation of allies such as Corinth and Thebes.
The latter would eventually break the back of Spartan power over Greece
The latter would eventually break the back of Spartan power over Greece
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What do you mean, it’s just a military adventure into a mountainous region with an unpopular and tyrannical local government (literally, in the Greek case) everyone assumed would collapse that ends in disaster and quagmire and whose knock on effects result in political instability back home
November 19, 2025 at 10:38 PM
What do you mean, it’s just a military adventure into a mountainous region with an unpopular and tyrannical local government (literally, in the Greek case) everyone assumed would collapse that ends in disaster and quagmire and whose knock on effects result in political instability back home
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So I guess the invasion of Afghanistan is like the US version of the Sicilian expedition of 415-413BCE
November 19, 2025 at 10:08 PM
So I guess the invasion of Afghanistan is like the US version of the Sicilian expedition of 415-413BCE
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Then he showed a slide with a picture of George Bush with the caption “picture unrelated”
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Then he showed a slide with a picture of George Bush with the caption “picture unrelated”
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Members originally had no disagreements with imperial expansion; it was an imperial nation in its first stages.
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Members originally had no disagreements with imperial expansion; it was an imperial nation in its first stages.
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Silly, that's not why states (Which the league can be considered) rise & fall.
What happened was a smaller-scale version of this. Once the Persians were gone, Athens acted selfishly which strained & shattered the alliance.
What happened was a smaller-scale version of this. Once the Persians were gone, Athens acted selfishly which strained & shattered the alliance.
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Silly, that's not why states (Which the league can be considered) rise & fall.
What happened was a smaller-scale version of this. Once the Persians were gone, Athens acted selfishly which strained & shattered the alliance.
What happened was a smaller-scale version of this. Once the Persians were gone, Athens acted selfishly which strained & shattered the alliance.
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I had a classics professor who argued the Delian League collapsed under the weight of its own contradiction. The Melian dialogues showed a polity preaching freedom and mutual defense practicing imperial politics will inevitably strain and collapse as what is and what is supposed grow further apart.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I had a classics professor who argued the Delian League collapsed under the weight of its own contradiction. The Melian dialogues showed a polity preaching freedom and mutual defense practicing imperial politics will inevitably strain and collapse as what is and what is supposed grow further apart.
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hard these days to see the achievement of being on people's lips after death as becoming an avatar of timeless virtue, rather than simply narcissistic self aggrandizement & the wealth to get it spoken as one wants
November 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
hard these days to see the achievement of being on people's lips after death as becoming an avatar of timeless virtue, rather than simply narcissistic self aggrandizement & the wealth to get it spoken as one wants
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The best thing about Thucydides Peloponnesian war, is how many different people it brings together. Historians, Political Scientists, IR, NatSec, Literary scholars... there is so much to interpret and discuss. A timeless text.
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The best thing about Thucydides Peloponnesian war, is how many different people it brings together. Historians, Political Scientists, IR, NatSec, Literary scholars... there is so much to interpret and discuss. A timeless text.
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I visited the Polish memorial in Monte Casino, Italy. The inscription reads:
"For our freedom and yours, we, soldiers of Poland, gave our souls to God, our bodies to the earth of Italy, and our hearts to Poland."
"For our freedom and yours, we, soldiers of Poland, gave our souls to God, our bodies to the earth of Italy, and our hearts to Poland."
Arlington in USA: "Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God"
Also quite moving.
Also quite moving.
November 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I visited the Polish memorial in Monte Casino, Italy. The inscription reads:
"For our freedom and yours, we, soldiers of Poland, gave our souls to God, our bodies to the earth of Italy, and our hearts to Poland."
"For our freedom and yours, we, soldiers of Poland, gave our souls to God, our bodies to the earth of Italy, and our hearts to Poland."
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I love Greek. Language of dual meanings and hidden messages.
I recently encountered that quote while reading about various monuments to unknown soldiers. That same quote is written on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Athens. (My admittedly incomplete understanding of what it means: Great men's "tomb monument" is their legacy and effect on the whole world.)
November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I love Greek. Language of dual meanings and hidden messages.
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I am convinced that Thucydides account of Pericles is a warning of the dangers of "great men". Was as a student, still am today.
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I am convinced that Thucydides account of Pericles is a warning of the dangers of "great men". Was as a student, still am today.
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Thucydides wrote that once Pericles became the ruler of Athens, Athenian democracy devolved into a rule by the ambitious, deluded, and vain.
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Thucydides wrote that once Pericles became the ruler of Athens, Athenian democracy devolved into a rule by the ambitious, deluded, and vain.
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There is this great line on the funeral of Pericles in Thucydides Peloponnesian war.
“for illustrious men have the whole world as their tomb”
No one can convince me that this isn't a hidden critique of Pericles. The "illustrious men" who burn down everything for their vanity. Love it.
“for illustrious men have the whole world as their tomb”
No one can convince me that this isn't a hidden critique of Pericles. The "illustrious men" who burn down everything for their vanity. Love it.
November 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
There is this great line on the funeral of Pericles in Thucydides Peloponnesian war.
“for illustrious men have the whole world as their tomb”
No one can convince me that this isn't a hidden critique of Pericles. The "illustrious men" who burn down everything for their vanity. Love it.
“for illustrious men have the whole world as their tomb”
No one can convince me that this isn't a hidden critique of Pericles. The "illustrious men" who burn down everything for their vanity. Love it.
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There is debate over if Thucydides praises Pericles, or not. I believe Thucydides criticised Pericles, in a very ironic, but on the point way. Painting him as the man who led Athens to it's doom.
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
There is debate over if Thucydides praises Pericles, or not. I believe Thucydides criticised Pericles, in a very ironic, but on the point way. Painting him as the man who led Athens to it's doom.
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Comparing Trump to Thucydides account of Pericles. lol
November 19, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Comparing Trump to Thucydides account of Pericles. lol
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Found some of the old papers I wrote when I was a student, and I am cringing.
November 19, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Found some of the old papers I wrote when I was a student, and I am cringing.
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Going through photos of hell in Ternopil after Russia bombed apartment building and feeling numb.
That should’ve alone terrify me, but numbness take care of that too.
That should’ve alone terrify me, but numbness take care of that too.
November 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Going through photos of hell in Ternopil after Russia bombed apartment building and feeling numb.
That should’ve alone terrify me, but numbness take care of that too.
That should’ve alone terrify me, but numbness take care of that too.
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It was "phoney" only in the west.
It was a full on total war and genocide for us in Poland.
As to Ukraine, Polish army were unable do to any offensive in 2023 as our artillery, 300 tanks and bigly big chunk of GBAD fallen of the trucks in Lviv in 2022...
It was a full on total war and genocide for us in Poland.
As to Ukraine, Polish army were unable do to any offensive in 2023 as our artillery, 300 tanks and bigly big chunk of GBAD fallen of the trucks in Lviv in 2022...
The "Phoney War" is what the time period from September 1939 to May 1940 on the Western front is called. With France and Britain sitting back and doing nothing to save Poland, and then just waiting and doing little to nothing, as Germany built up it's forces to attack France.
November 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
It was "phoney" only in the west.
It was a full on total war and genocide for us in Poland.
As to Ukraine, Polish army were unable do to any offensive in 2023 as our artillery, 300 tanks and bigly big chunk of GBAD fallen of the trucks in Lviv in 2022...
It was a full on total war and genocide for us in Poland.
As to Ukraine, Polish army were unable do to any offensive in 2023 as our artillery, 300 tanks and bigly big chunk of GBAD fallen of the trucks in Lviv in 2022...
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Still, EuropeAid (or whoever is responsible) taking over the responsibilities of USAID would probably be the best bargain on soft power in history. Like all of it.
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Still, EuropeAid (or whoever is responsible) taking over the responsibilities of USAID would probably be the best bargain on soft power in history. Like all of it.
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We have to spend every cent we can find available on buying weapons for Ukraine. It will unfortunately be China that fills these shoes.
The US has withdrawn funding from global health initiatives worldwide.
According to Global Health EDCTP3’s Exec Director Michael Makanga, the situation presents "a golden opportunity for the European Union." 👇
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According to Global Health EDCTP3’s Exec Director Michael Makanga, the situation presents "a golden opportunity for the European Union." 👇
🎥 Watch live: x.com/i/broadcasts...
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
We have to spend every cent we can find available on buying weapons for Ukraine. It will unfortunately be China that fills these shoes.