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The Golden Hord will rise again

Too bad democracy won't invade like Putin does because peace is the right thing to do.

Wait for …. The Mongols!

If Mongolia is able to muster anything like the force they had when they invaded, it will hardly matter what Russia can mount

You bringing socialized health care?

I've left the back door unlocked.

The map they used in the linked article as the largest empire to ever exist was actually of the later British Empire, which doesn't include what is the present-day US (though it was larger than the British Empire at the time that it included some of the present-day US).

It'd be interesting to create composite maps of empires that included all the territory that they ever controlled, rather than the peak that they controlled at any one time. I think you'd need to do some work in R, and that the Brits would probably still come out on top.

As I have pointed out before, Russia also historically controlled part of what is now the US:

https://www.newsweek.com/putin-ally-vyacheslav-volodin-warns-us-russia-reclaim-alaska-1722342

Oleg Matveychev, a member of the Duma, told Russian state television earlier this year that Russia should seek the "return of all Russian properties, those of the Russian empire, the Soviet Union and current Russia, which has been seized in the United States, and so on."

When asked if that included Alaska, Matveychev responded that it did.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_colonization_of_North_America

From 1732 to 1867, the Russian Empire laid claim to northern Pacific Coast territories in the Americas. Russian colonial possessions in the Americas are collectively known as Russian America ((Russian: Русская Америка, romanized: Russkaya Amerika); 1799 to 1867). It consisted mostly of present-day Alaska in the United States, but also included the outpost of Fort Ross in California, and three forts in Hawaii, including Russian Fort Elizabeth. Russian Creole settlements were concentrated in Alaska, including the capital, New Archangel (Novo-Arkhangelsk), which is now Sitka.

Fort Ross in California has been preserved as both an American and Californian historic landmark, and you can go visit it; Russian Orthodox services are held there a couple times a year:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Ross,_California

BREXIN

How many lanterns?

To be expected, given his ancestry

The Abbasids and the Umayyads put Alexander to shame.

Hey Portugal and Spain, according to the treaty of Tordesilhas together, Portugal and Spain had conquering rights for half the world.

They got most of the other half a bit later:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas

The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west to Castile, modifying an earlier bull by Pope Alexander VI. The treaty was signed by Spain on 2 July 1494, and by Portugal on 5 September 1494. The other side of the world was divided a few decades later by the Treaty of Zaragoza, signed on 22 April 1529, which specified the antimeridian to the line of demarcation specified in the Treaty of Tordesillas. Portugal and Spain largely respected the treaties, while the indigenous peoples of the Americas did not acknowledge them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Zaragoza

Under the treaty, Portugal gained control of all lands and seas west of the line, including all of Asia and its neighbouring islands so far "discovered", leaving Spain with most of the Pacific Ocean.

DAMN YOU MONGORIANS! ALWAYS BREAKING MY CITY WALL!

I have Privacy Badger so I didn't look at the Xitter post, here's a map I found from the Wikipedia page

Is your Lemmy texting about Mongolia?

LMAO = Let Mongols Annex Oblast