Not to engage in whataboutism, but every major power or even near-peer power has engaged in those types of atrocities. We like to talk about international law, but anyone who has paid attention understands that the only international law that exists is power.
I wish it were different, but the language they spoke back then was conquest, and every nation and ethnicity spoke that language, and embraced it. And they weren't just unaliving people. They were having their way with the women and unaliving the male children. The Arabs did this. The Persians did this. The Europeans did this. The Asians did this. Everyone.
There's a reason why 0.5% of the male global population today has Genghis Khan's DNA.
I'm not white, but it boggles my mind how modern society has been so radicalized and brainwashed that a particular segment of our population actually thinks white people are the only people in history that have done this.
Certainly not every people spoke the language of conquest. The high mountain ranges of the world are populated by peoples who escaped the conquering activity of their neighbors by moving upsteam into less and less easily cultivable terrain, land no one else wanted.
I never said "every people". I said "every major power or even near-peer power". Isolated mountain villages and their people do not fall into the categories I referenced: (1) every major power; (2) near-peer power.
Fine. But you then wrote “the language they spoke back then was conquest, and every nation and ethnicity spoke that language, and embraced it”, which seemed like a pretty umbrella description, hence why I replied with what I did.
You're right, of course, but the post-War consensus in which (most) major powers (mostly) acknowledged international law and (mostly) restricted themselves to economic, rather than military, competition was... nice. It took the two most destructive wars in history, back-to-back, to reach that state of (imperfect, relative) peace, and I'm sorry to see it ending.
Go on then. Nobody's stopping you.
Not to engage in whataboutism, but every major power or even near-peer power has engaged in those types of atrocities. We like to talk about international law, but anyone who has paid attention understands that the only international law that exists is power.
I wish it were different, but the language they spoke back then was conquest, and every nation and ethnicity spoke that language, and embraced it. And they weren't just unaliving people. They were having their way with the women and unaliving the male children. The Arabs did this. The Persians did this. The Europeans did this. The Asians did this. Everyone.
There's a reason why 0.5% of the male global population today has Genghis Khan's DNA.
I'm not white, but it boggles my mind how modern society has been so radicalized and brainwashed that a particular segment of our population actually thinks white people are the only people in history that have done this.
But yeah, the French...
Certainly not every people spoke the language of conquest. The high mountain ranges of the world are populated by peoples who escaped the conquering activity of their neighbors by moving upsteam into less and less easily cultivable terrain, land no one else wanted.
I never said "every people". I said "every major power or even near-peer power". Isolated mountain villages and their people do not fall into the categories I referenced: (1) every major power; (2) near-peer power.
Fine. But you then wrote “the language they spoke back then was conquest, and every nation and ethnicity spoke that language, and embraced it”, which seemed like a pretty umbrella description, hence why I replied with what I did.
Fair point - I could totally see that now. It's Friday Eve so we'll leave it at that. Cheers to a good weekend, friend. This one's on me ;)
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You're right, of course, but the post-War consensus in which (most) major powers (mostly) acknowledged international law and (mostly) restricted themselves to economic, rather than military, competition was... nice. It took the two most destructive wars in history, back-to-back, to reach that state of (imperfect, relative) peace, and I'm sorry to see it ending.
Fair point and certainly a rarity in world history.
That’s been talked about ad nauseam. It’s nice to talk about something else for a change.
Can we talk about the Spanish instead? They killed more.
yes we can.