On the Fall of Constantinopole and the American Empire .... so many similarities, it's uncanny !!

I am rooting for the downfall of America.  Only America's downfall will end wars and regime changes and the cruel aftermath of those actions.  Many of  the babies born even today in Iraqi cities whose soil got impacted with the poison from the skies, courtesy the missiles from the USA, are born with birth defects.  Iraq is just one of the many, many countries around the globe that's suffered at the violent hands of the USA.  Let's not even begin to talk about Afghanistan, Syria, Somalia, Vietnam and several regions of South America. It's a never-ending story of wars, invasions, cruelty, massacres and American-style colonization of nations not strong enough to withstand the ferocity of American hatred and intolerance of  the "others".

Having the ultimate death, discord and demise of the USA on my wish list, it pleases me to see the discord carried out by the Antifa thugs or the hypocrites of the BLM or the marauding youngsters from the American Black community, the calumnious infighting between the Left and Right, the insanity of the woke culture, the men of USA's military, navy and air-force  in skirts and high-heels and America's institutions' hiring protocol leaning towards employing more of the woke nuts and less of  the normal Joes and Janes.  And,  when even patriots like Hanson are not blind to the end of America as an Empire ... it's an added bonus.  Hurrah !!

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Are We the Byzantines?

The Byzantines never woke up in time to understand what they had become. Will Americans?

By Victor Davis Hanson 

 

https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/15/are-we-the-byzantines/ 

March 15, 2023

When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome.

Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its enemies, avoiding military quagmires, and ensuring constant deterrence.

Generations of self-sacrifice ensured ample investment for infrastructure. Each generation inherited and improved on singular aqueducts and cisterns, sewer systems, and the most complex and formidable city fortifications in the world.

Brilliant scientific advancement and engineering gave the empire advantages like swift galleys and flame throwers—an ancient precursor to napalm.

The law reigned supreme for nearly a millennium after the emperor Justinian codified a prior thousand years of Roman jurisprudence.

Yet this millennium-old crown jewel of the ancient world that once was home to 800,000 citizens had only 50,000 inhabitants left when it fell. 

There were only 7,000 defenders on the walls to hold back a huge Turkish army of over 150,000 attackers.

The Islamic winners took over the once magical city of Constantine and renamed it Istanbul. It had been the home of the renowned Santa Sophia, the largest Christian church in the world for over 900 years. Almost immediately, this “Church of the Holy Wisdom” was converted into the then largest mosque in the Islamic world, with minarets to follow.

So what happened to the once indomitable city fortress and its empire?............

 

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