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Fandomguy (Destructive Creation arc) 🍿
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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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Not so promising in the eyes of Cliodynamics, with a majority that has little civilization experience & a history of social capital rotting inequality in the form of Apartheid it should be no surprise South Africa's future would be grim at least in the near to medium term.
November 20, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Material isn't enough; if the West was truly serious about giving Ukraine "all it needs" it would be gearing up for war.

It's not.

This is a slow-motion D I S A S T E R.
November 20, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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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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November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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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
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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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
Members originally had no disagreements with imperial expansion; it was an imperial nation in its first stages.
November 20, 2025 at 7:28 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.
November 20, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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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