I don't understand, what is there to admire about them?
Homosexuality
>>18417159How the fuck they managed to survive for so long despite being wrecked on all sides by everybody
>>18417232What are you smoking? They had ridicolously good borders, easy to defend. This makes their countless BTFO moments even more hillarious
>>18417159Not being Turkish.
>I dont understand what is there to admire about them?Uhhh, they were based romans, why do you need more reasons?
>>18417251>>18417321They were fighting against Asians while all other Europeans except Spain were too busy fighting against each other for the entirety of the Middle Ages and of course defeating the Moors isn't remotely impressive when compared to stalemating the Arabs themselves! But Ottoman Turks became the world's only real superpower for many centuries so losing to them wasn't that bad
>>18417350Anatolia is easy to defend. losing most of it in a single battle against a bunch of central asians gypies made Byzantium was a pure travesty
>>18417400Anatolia is actually much easier to invade rather than defend as proven by Persians twice, both during Cyrus the Great and shortly before the defeat of the Sassanids by none other than Byzantium, as well as other conquerors such as Seleucus and Timur
>>18417350>They were fighting against AsiansThey were orientals themselves
>>18417523>byzantines were orientalsWell shit, guess the crusader states were also oriental
>>18417913They kinda were by the end...
>>18417159They spent their entire existence jobbing but if you ever question their competence you'll have a horde of brown slumdogs favelaposting in their defence
>>18417951This. See this Brown byzcel having a meltdown in trying to prove a giant peninsula filled with mountains and chokepoint, that can be invaded by land only by one side is somehow hard to defend >>18417475
Amazing education and statecraft, especially when it comes to Law, Theology and Enforced?
>>18418121>Amazing education and statecraft, especially when it comes to Law, Theology and Enforced?>No relevant litterature or philosophy >Statecraft so bad the had costant civil war>Law couldnt imposed a stable succession system in over 1000 years >Theology almost made the Empire collapsed over a silly debat about if Jesus should be drawned or notI am happy the crusades and the turkoids helped this abomination of a "civilization" slowly destroying itself
>>18417913In 1100 no, but by 1200 descendants of those, who conquered Holy Land, had assimilated - wearing oriental clothes, live with arab and greek womens, eat oriental food and etc. and etc...
>>18417159often an underdog and was a lot closer to current nation states than were the various chiefdoms with writing it bordered and sometimes seemed doomed to until its would be conqueror died and the sons tore it apart
>>18418157So they were like Israel that was supposed to be an ally of Europe during the late 1940s and ended up being as evil as the Islamic terrorists of Afghanistan and Syria at the beginning of the next century
>>18418768>that was supposed to be an ally of Europe during the late 1940sIsrael was Soviet puppet right until 1967.>ended up being as evil as the Islamic terroristsIsrael is outpost of Western Civilization against sandniggers from Iran. And they become this outpost because it was populated by Jews from all world. Give it 50 years and they will be reduced to the same sand shithole like Lebanon or Cyprus.
>>18418825Both the Soviet Union and Cyprus are European while Israel is just as evil as Islamic terrorists when it comes to throwing bombs inside cities also 9/11 was a false flag
>>18418825>>18418825I just think that epistemology from the Global North is forever tainted by and the product of the violence of settler colonialism. Israel is a manifestation of that. Think it may inspire some to look at epistemology from the global south.
>>18418959Safavid Iran was better than the Habsburgs and their Spanish colonial empire when fighting the Ottoman Empirehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mWRy7A1cJI
>>18417159Every time they fought actual white civilizations they got btfo. They also made the Ottomans less white which is why they could never conquer the Aryan Safavids.
>>18418971>>18418979The Byzantines were actually the whitest country to ever exist in human history! Both France and Spain would show their weakness when fighting a single enemy that was the Moors who were nothing but a small fraction of the Umayyad Caliphate while Byzantines survived against the Arabs themselves while they were also attacked simultaneously by the Slavs the same tribe that would end up being the nation of Russia the only real empire of the 21st century! As for England it always was an extension of the Vikings not really a land power it only won battles in the sea where it exploited the much inferior navy of it's opponents! Anyway Marco Rubio's invasion of Iran is essentially the beginning of WW3 which is going to continue for the next 40 thousand years in space
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