which of the two is John Keay?
Why unfortunately? Tolstoy and Dostoevky are generally recognized as great authors. Being Russian does not make them retrospectively Putinist, does it?
This is a pretty good read https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174501.India This is a bit lighter and not specifically about India, enlightening nonetheless: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166434.Empire Basically,…
Depends who you ask... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_statue_of_Genghis_K... Kublai Khan also makes for decent entertainment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_(2014_TV_series)
"You really need something special for the foreign terrorists to be willing to travel half a world just to blow themselves up on your doorstep" Yes, and what could be that something special? Imperialism says you?…
Indeed, empires do not have to exist, and the world could constitute of individual nations ruling themselves independently in democracy peace and happiness. By historical standard, over the last 10000 years prosperity,…
The more i think about math these days, the more i see it as a muscle one must constantly train to achieve its potential. Give it too long a rest and you have to go back at full blast for weeks on end to hope to ever…
no, it's nothing specific to "The West" or the decisions it has taken. The typical "They hate us because our bad policies" does not explain why every empire (western or not) has had to contend with dissenters keen on…
or put simply, just rebelling against any attempt at modernising muslim societies. Anwar Sadat comes to mind.
Yeah... what about those? How many retaliatory terror attacks on americans performed by citizen of those countries? What point are you trying to make? US bad? Anything more thoughtful to offer? The US are an empire and…
yet you fail to account for the fact that said people wouldn't wouldn't be in power did terrorism not have occurred in the first place. How many bad leaders in the west resulting directly or indirectly from terror…
And freedom fighters are supposed to actually care about "freedom" while terrorists generally do not. I fail to see what great advancements in freedom for anyone involved have come out of the terror attacks performed…
Are you talking about income or actual wealth? Your income may remain constant while your wealth rises significantly (say... because your investments are doing well, because you inherited... etc). The two are often…
"- Err, we have no money. - Sigh. ok. Go and attack our rivals over there." Strictly speaking, this is not what happened, and a gross oversimplification. The Byzantines were not exactly rivals of the Venetians. The…
it's because it's not real communism.
Yes, Frankopan's Silk Roads was a disappointment to say the least, I was really expecting an enlightening history of the middle east, starting from the early interrelations between the various civilisations (Egypt,…
Tim Severin is referenced in the list, so i would suggest as an addition Tracking Marco Polo by the very same author, a fun read indeed. From Goodreads: Tim Severin took up the challenge offered from antiquity by Marco…
"That’s one government though. I can’t think of any other western government funding Israel in a similar way." My point, exactly!
western governments funding Israel? What western governments exactly? Isn't Israel capable of funding itself through its own economy?
Don't muslim citizens and foreign residents in Switzerland enjoy more rights than in pretty much any Muslim country? There is definitely some hostility to some aspects of Islam, aspects which seem to only recently have…
Such dickheads the Swiss voting public, how dare they exercise a direct democracy?! So inconveniencing!
there is a time and place for everything. "Les règles de bienséance" matter more to me than the safekeeping of the exactness of English grammar, which as others have been keen to point out is hardly as strict as you…
Pedantry attracts dislike. One may be right to state something, yet wrong to call it out in public.
I shared the article with my Brother in Law (my better half is argentinean), he sent me this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDUzqoRC1eZ/?igsh=aWpwbGJ1Znd...
Maybe because what you call "Fascism" isn´t Fascism and, as far as i know, nobody wants to gut our (varied) social programs, but we are just conscious that in some cases, said programs are failing, unsustainable due to…
which of the two is John Keay?
Why unfortunately? Tolstoy and Dostoevky are generally recognized as great authors. Being Russian does not make them retrospectively Putinist, does it?
This is a pretty good read https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/174501.India This is a bit lighter and not specifically about India, enlightening nonetheless: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/166434.Empire Basically,…
Depends who you ask... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equestrian_statue_of_Genghis_K... Kublai Khan also makes for decent entertainment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_(2014_TV_series)
"You really need something special for the foreign terrorists to be willing to travel half a world just to blow themselves up on your doorstep" Yes, and what could be that something special? Imperialism says you?…
Indeed, empires do not have to exist, and the world could constitute of individual nations ruling themselves independently in democracy peace and happiness. By historical standard, over the last 10000 years prosperity,…
The more i think about math these days, the more i see it as a muscle one must constantly train to achieve its potential. Give it too long a rest and you have to go back at full blast for weeks on end to hope to ever…
no, it's nothing specific to "The West" or the decisions it has taken. The typical "They hate us because our bad policies" does not explain why every empire (western or not) has had to contend with dissenters keen on…
or put simply, just rebelling against any attempt at modernising muslim societies. Anwar Sadat comes to mind.
Yeah... what about those? How many retaliatory terror attacks on americans performed by citizen of those countries? What point are you trying to make? US bad? Anything more thoughtful to offer? The US are an empire and…
yet you fail to account for the fact that said people wouldn't wouldn't be in power did terrorism not have occurred in the first place. How many bad leaders in the west resulting directly or indirectly from terror…
And freedom fighters are supposed to actually care about "freedom" while terrorists generally do not. I fail to see what great advancements in freedom for anyone involved have come out of the terror attacks performed…
Are you talking about income or actual wealth? Your income may remain constant while your wealth rises significantly (say... because your investments are doing well, because you inherited... etc). The two are often…
"- Err, we have no money. - Sigh. ok. Go and attack our rivals over there." Strictly speaking, this is not what happened, and a gross oversimplification. The Byzantines were not exactly rivals of the Venetians. The…
it's because it's not real communism.
Yes, Frankopan's Silk Roads was a disappointment to say the least, I was really expecting an enlightening history of the middle east, starting from the early interrelations between the various civilisations (Egypt,…
Tim Severin is referenced in the list, so i would suggest as an addition Tracking Marco Polo by the very same author, a fun read indeed. From Goodreads: Tim Severin took up the challenge offered from antiquity by Marco…
"That’s one government though. I can’t think of any other western government funding Israel in a similar way." My point, exactly!
western governments funding Israel? What western governments exactly? Isn't Israel capable of funding itself through its own economy?
Don't muslim citizens and foreign residents in Switzerland enjoy more rights than in pretty much any Muslim country? There is definitely some hostility to some aspects of Islam, aspects which seem to only recently have…
Such dickheads the Swiss voting public, how dare they exercise a direct democracy?! So inconveniencing!
there is a time and place for everything. "Les règles de bienséance" matter more to me than the safekeeping of the exactness of English grammar, which as others have been keen to point out is hardly as strict as you…
Pedantry attracts dislike. One may be right to state something, yet wrong to call it out in public.
I shared the article with my Brother in Law (my better half is argentinean), he sent me this: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDUzqoRC1eZ/?igsh=aWpwbGJ1Znd...
Maybe because what you call "Fascism" isn´t Fascism and, as far as i know, nobody wants to gut our (varied) social programs, but we are just conscious that in some cases, said programs are failing, unsustainable due to…