New Years resolution is to try and switch some of my reading from academic history stuff to more literature where i'm kinda horribly deficitary. Trying to "tie-it" in to my history interest and focusing on older "classics"(thinking vaguely nothing written after 1945) Any recommendation are welcomed

When the English/Spaniards arrive they will find a metropolis of 50-75k people on the Upper Mississippi

Example in RO how personal enrichment is the sole driver even in morally right cases and how sometimes anti-corruption can be pedantic. PSD mp tried to get the USR MOD into a scheme of selling Kazakh shells to UA by offering him bribes

Its actually workable. The trick is to keep stability and tribal cohesion above certain thresholds. Its a boring ass game as you are alone for like 200+ years but its a perfect walkthrough/learning game (well bar military, you fight nobody but undefensable "pop tribes")

>Christendom will fall because Bulgars yearned for Salonika Tale as old as time, no @sashotodorov.bsky.social ?

Game is very slow. Barely a few years in the first hours. Ottoman start is harder than i thought, you are strong and told to go nuts and conquer but its very easy to get hit by a nasty coalition of Byzantines-Bulgaria-Karamanids if you quickly overrun the small Beyliks

I can't get over Hakkari being east Euro. Genuinely hilarious

Not advisable to play your first game as a no content releasable tbh. Half my country is starving and i have no market access anywhere because there are 0 market towns in all of Transylvania

"Tunceli is European. Izmir is NOT" Swedish truthnukes with Johan

Transylvanian WC and Bulgarian extinction posting soon

EU5 looks bad ngl

You can understand this issue far better as an eastern Euro. In mid 2000's, let alone earlier, a basic 49-59$ game could equal about as much as a whole month of rent or heating cost in Romania Now the same price is around the same as a dinner for 2 at medium-ish decent restaurant

My most unpopular opinion of the past 3 years is that the EU position on Armenia is the best possible one post-Karrabakh war contrary to some critics Its exactly that "realist/realpolitik" they demanded but now ignore to yell of moral decadence and lack of high idealist morality they denounce on UA

>fix econ >they win >kill econ >you win >step 1 Peronist death spiral and nobody is left with that religious determination to let man suffer for his sins

There is a funny story about this but when Girkin took over Sloviansk they wanted to loot the local budget only to find out like 70% was going on pensions, which the Kremlin made a propaganda bit and wanted left alone. So they started looting industrial buildings for recycled metal

@bretdevereaux.bsky.social if its no bother I was wondering if you could recommend me some books on Roman history. Largely interested in pre-Augustus era at the momemt

>twitter froze >log out >froze at logging out >can't log back in error Bravo Mr Musk, bravo! I would not care but there's a week long biblical downpour going on and i'm stuck inside

Ghost of Yotei review - A homage to Kill Bill, which is a homage to Kurasawa, which is an homage to western spaghetti's, which are.....

Replied elsewhere but please note our situation is different from Poland. Russian drones routinely cross RO territory at the Danube delta on their way to hit Izmail The issue is as I geromanned below, that there is basically 0 roads east of Tulcea

There where protests against the new FSN gov by various student groups. Complaint being that to many communists where part of the transition FSN gets scared and wants streets cleared but the army refuses to do it, its leaders busy burning evidence of their crimes in Dec. Miners are bussed in

To complain of persecution of Communists in Romania after '89 is really funny because nobody was ever indicted for anything and they ruled the country for decades

Its funny but its kinda doable. If a diaspora family brings their kids there and puts them in an Italian school they really are kinda demographically 'lost' The parents may return as retirees but the kids will stay there. Marry there...etc and eventually indeed assimilate

Romanian Enlightenment spreading every day

People can't even comprehend how insane and esoteric the campaign is in Romania. The far-right is kinda multicultural, saying it loves Magyars, Romas, its proposing an Arab vice-PM..etc meanwhile the pro-EU peple on the ground to literal skull measurement racism

Literally 0 shock to anyone who knows the country. The far-right has always been the most ideologically supportive of the PCR regime The boomers are just nostalgics "i miss my youth" and not like Simion "Based Patriot Ceausescu defeated the Financiers"

The disturbing bit isn’t that he thinks or posts this—that’s unsurprising. He's a regular RT columnist. It’s that this is what the director of national intelligence is consuming. This is the person she amplified just yesterday. This is the worldview what will be shaping the assessments she oversees

Some pictures from around Dignity Square in the center of #Suwayda. The square that was the beating heart of regional protests against the #Assad regime.

Made it to the colorful city of #Suwayda in the south of #Syria. The torch that carried anti-Assad protests in 2023-24, but now finds itself at odds with the new government over regional governance, Druze representation and worries about extremist factions.

2 things are both true: -The Houthis are the most radical of the Muqawama and have the internal fanaticism to not obey Tehran -There are no native missile construction capabilities in Sadah/Sanaa and they come from Iran

Total Kristol victory. The Axis of Evil and Enemies of Liberty must be allowed no safe heaven

US middle aged moms in Boston being radicalized by Romanian jurisprudence "You can just ban them!?"

Our DNI retweets this…incredible.

checking on Tucker Carlson

apropos of nothing, March 15 was the six-year anniversary of the Christchurch terrorist attack when a guy spouting considerably less polite versions of Vance’s ‘arguments’ below murdered 51 people because they were Muslim, so perhaps we should think about where discourse is going eh

News of the termination of funding for RFE/RL, emails placing Voice of America employees on indefinite leave, and the shutdown of the Wilson Center, on the same day, are a devastating blow to democracy and a major gift to anti-American authoritarian regimes worldwide

In Rome today 50k people at the demonstration pro-Europe.

Decently sized non-partisan (its not a rally of any candidate) grassroots meeting (not really a protest at anything) Anything to wake up the European / Liberal segments of society from their comatose that fosters activism and engagement is good imho

Under no considerations should anyone be polarized into being pro-Houthi. There are at most 3-4 other groups on earth right now worse than them

>Person who wanted to kill Assad in 2011 and spare the world the dual shock of the refugee wave and ISIS rampage that imploded our politics in the 2010's >Was right Those with prescience and the Sight spoke even 14 years ago when people laughed at Obama's joke. Alas the blind could not see

“Wow, Anon. It’s almost like there’s an Axis of Evil!” He can’t keep getting away with this. How is he vindicated more every day?

This is the person who Tulsi Gabbard wanted to appoint as her deputy as director of national intelligence. “One private analysis obtained by Mother Jones shows that Russian state media outlets have cited Davis’ show nearly 300 times in the past 18 months” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

if you wonder how bad the new HoI4 dlc really is

This must have been how Russian biologists felt when the official propaganda outlets started pushing Lysenkoism

Average Romanian nationalist 'program' since 1990. -"We'll suffer but we'll be rid of foreign financiers and reopen the mines" -"Why?" -"To mine" -"What for?" -"To mine" -"Why?" -"Shiny Nationalist Rock = We rich"

I find debates on who is a "moderate" in the US D party silly tbh. Both sides largely are in agreement Trump is right: -Liberal leaders arguing the Leftist social issues must be abandoned bcs Trumps right on Trans rights -Leftists meanwhile are almost all in agreement Trump is right on the economy

>The debt *will* prove unsusteinable >Common debt Trust the Plan Anon, fate guides us towards the blessed Federation

Don Jr. popped up in Serbia this week, part of the Trump/Kushner families' ongoing push to invest in the Balkans. He also had a chat with Vucic — not about investments, but about the real pressing issues: imported color revolutions, USAID meddling and the horror of *checks notes* people protesting.

You can lose upper middle class voters but that's not his voter

*PUTIN'S AIDE: RUSSIA DOESN'T WANT TEMPORARY CEASEFIRE: IFX

Yesterday I observed that Musk and others were beginning to use Ukraine as a euphemism for Jews (in the most derogatory sense). Today, Musk comments on the post of a known Nazi intended to link Ukraine and that ancient anti-Jewish slander of blood libel.