Vncredleader

Was she right about Libya?

I looked it up and yeah that is so weird. The oldest of them is from 1998, but they are actually way older cause they had been an illegal communist insurgent party since the 60s. I definitely see what you mean by cycles. There are like 3 from 2002, 4 or 5 from 2007, and so on. And that's of all with at least 1 seat in Congress.

I don't know political culture in Guatemala, how do people pick candidates? Are those somewhat the same just the parties shift? It seems like it would be hard to even remind people who they want to vote for

Jenny is always great at providing several hours to burn

Brace does LOVE Jiang Qing

Saying Mao read only 2 books is insane. Man was literally a librarian

Well yeah, but framing it as the October Revolution is some anti-communist shit by them.

Didn't like next to no one die during the October Revolution? There was a shootout but mostly injuries

Thanks for the recs. I got my start in the subject from Victor Davis Hanson who in hindsight is a fucking maga nut. So I need some less.....um fashy reading on the matter. Much as War Like No Other is well written and he does interestingly frame the Aegean islands as "Greek third world". I got super into this era of Greek history and Hanson unfortunately is the one who sparked my love for reading history that never stopped. Finding out what he really is killed my momentum on the specific subject matter.

What is so funny is "Petersburg" is a fucking German spelling. The Revolution occurred in Petrograd which was a change made by the Tsar at the start of WW1 because Petersburg was German. So their ignorance leads them to miss an actual case of something approaching Russian supremacism. They cannot and will not learn basic fucking history

Thucydides is so fascinating and frustrating. His writing is great, he provides some incredible perspective, but he also invents or embellishes in ways we cannot discern fully. Particularly with Pericles. Don't we have like a half dozen actual documents from Pericles himself, several of which are just his name, much like Shakespeare? Thucydides did know the man though.

We love Thucydides don't we folks? Truly one of our handsome generals

I know they abandoned the countryside immediately but abandonment was not permanent, the war had large lulls and assaulting troops would go back to friendly cities when it wasn't campaign season , but for some reason I remember A War Like No Other implying Thucydides wasn't able to respond as fast because he was cautious about abandoning his existing region. I checked and I can't find anything like that so oops. However his banishment is certainly an early example of the trend that would destroy Athens' military, the banishment of commanders for being unable to do the impossible. Most significantly Alcibiades