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Not really, the Mongols did quite well with much larger area and far fewer people by suppressing resistance through sheer terror.
by seemslegit 6y ago
Not really, the Mongols did quite well with much larger area and far fewer people by suppressing resistance through sheer terror.
- ahartmetz 6y agoIn their time, yes. But in more recent times "Europeans realized that they had become too good at their favorite activity, killing each other, so they decided to put an end to it". (paraphrased from Chomsky)
- seemslegit 6y agoI mean, I fully trust Chomsky to find a way in which trying to end over two millennia of hostility and subjugation is somehow used to discredit the West but...
- ahartmetz 6y agoI actually see it as a kind of ambivalent compliment, even if it wasn't meant that way. You don't want to mess with people who are very good at killing you if they have to. Having an effective army isn't easy at all.