The Crusades were actually in defence of Christians being massacred by Islamists.
Obviously Constantinople was a losing rematch.But Spain v Morocco and Tunisia seemed to have ended well.
Good luck with trying to reform Turkey and Yugoslavia along Atheist lines.
Wasn’t it imposed by the Romans as the official religion of the state?
But here the Christians massacred the Anglo Saxon Pagans etc.
And stayed on after the Roman retreat? ie The massacres and genocide of the Romans was successful.
Kemel Ataturk did a very good job earlier on. Not a quick job-n-knock and it is still ongoing but he did more in many ways, than we have done here in the UK with our stablished state Church.
The Edict of Milan wasn’t the same thing as the conversion of Anglo Saxon England to Christianity around 400 years later.It was effectively just recognition by Constantine of the right to be Christian or Pagan for Romans or Brits in the day.
By the standards of the day the Anglo Saxon takeover was just a transfer of power obviously involving some localised aggro here and there.Ending up with the previous Celtic type Brits moving out to Wales and Cornwall etc.While life wasn’t a bed of roses for them previously under Rome.
The Romans left Britain long before the Anglo Saxons arrived, as a coherent force and government and because of problems on the European mainland and at home.There was no wholesale massacre and ethnic cleansing of Romans here let alone by the Anglo Saxons.The timelines would have been way off.
Time for a new thread?
Or just comment that Trump will now have a younger opponent in the elections.
New opponent, same old slagging-off. Having last week spoken about wanting to unify things due to his epiphany, he’s gone straight back to personal insults and BS accusations. Harris allegedly is supposed to have gotten to where she is “by lies and fake news”. No Donald, that’s you that is…
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Yep. No real surprises.
Trump talking about uniting the country is pretty much like everything Trump talks about, a whole bigly bunch of words in no particular order that means different things to different listeners.
I doubt that 78 year old Trump will be talking so much about age, now he is likely to be against 59 year old Harris though.
Mickey Mouse would be a better POTUS than Trump.
Trump is an amoral, narcissistic, lying, misogynistic, perverted, bullying con artist. He doesn’t have the USA, middle America or any other American at heart, he has his ego at heart. He has publicly admired Putin and Kim Kong Un, as strong men. Neither are either, both are self-serving bullies, a characteristic shared with Trump.
If Trump gets in, I reckon he’ll try to change the constitution so he can become America’s first dictator, who will not be able to be removed.
Despite his tough talking rhetoric on China, he will suck up to and offer them treatment detrimental to the country that elected him. He owes China millions and will sell America out for debt forgiveness. He is in a similar, but to a lesser degree, situation with Russia.
Make America Great Again, my arse, more like make Trump even richer.
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There is talk of Michelle Obama having a chance against Trump. Probably better than Kamala to be fair.
They don’t need a chance when elections in the so called democratic west would now make Stalin and DDR proud.
As opposed to default on all China debt on grounds of national security.Not to mention contributing to China’s military budget in exchange for cheap third rate junk made by slave labour at slave wage rates.
Trump is more likely to do that than demented Biden ever would have and whichever China appeasing ■■■■■■ replaces him.
Well well well!
"Within 36 hours
$250 million was donated to the Harris for President campaign — an American all-time one-day record.
On Sunday and Monday, 28,000 people signed up to be campaign volunteers — knocking on doors, making calls, and registering people to vote. The total number of volunteers nationwide who had signed up on Saturday was 230.
A conference call to support Kamala Harris organized by Win With Black Women ballooned to over 44,000 Black women joining in on the call causing Zoom to have to immediately expand the capacity limit before the circuits overloaded. They raised $1.5 million in just 3 hours".
Maybe (and for the 2nd time) more US citizens will vote for a woman President?
Seems almost like a Hollywood script, but as with so much recently, it would have been dismissed as too far fetched 20 years ago.
Well in recent decades an actor, a reality TV star, a dimwit and a geriatric have already been in the Whitehouse, so par for the course.