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@kvali_app Pretty sure that map was made with Claude

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@4xCaliban Like look at this, two-thirds of Africa was unable to complete a state census on time(one third not being able to complete it at all) in 2024, worse record than Africa In 1990!

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@4xCaliban I think one angle that hasn’t been talked about in this debate is state-capacity. 1939 Europe has countries like Finland or Romania mobilizing and deploying 15-20% of their population in uniform while more than half of modern day African nations struggle with conducting a census

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@kamilkazani I remember a clip of Putin enthusiastically saying that Russia will have a higher gdp per capita than Portugal In the near future (video from the 00’s I think)

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@lefineder I haven’t yet read Vegetius, is he actually negative about his contemporary (4th century) Roman military?

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@posta_octavian There are tens of thousands of immigrants(mostly from South Asia) coming to a firmly second world country like Georgia, let alone Romania and other eastern EU countries. These people think it’s still 1994 or something

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@haravayin_hogh I would also add the increasing efficacy and quantity of European armor of the late Middle Ages which became almost impenetrable by bows/crossbows by the 15th century but were vulnerable to early firearms. Hussites especially come to mind

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@n30n5223434 The 12~ million figure for Anatolia is from late antiquity not the Middle Ages. The local peak under Basil was 7-8 million during the 11th century after it recovered from the Arabs and before the nomadic incursions began.

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@ZoomerLunar First Christian emperor, Constantine
(((Noticing)))

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@KaiserBauch Pretty striking that peacetime Cold War–era Western Europe spent a comparable share of its state budget on defense to what Russia spends today while fighting a full-scale bloody war against another major nation.

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@TheodoricAscing @kunley_drukpa Tbilisians do this to provincial Georgians a lot

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@UBERSOY1 Can you exclude religious figures for the ancient era?

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@Miyhnea I think you are forgetting the ever-increasing class of middle aged men with no prospects that will sign-up in case of large up-front cash bonuses, Russian forces post 2023 are mostly made up of them after the zealous believers run out.

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@DemilitariZer1 @fedupwhitemale True aryan

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@SPRequiem1 @NordickChad British unification came relatively late under a Scottish dynasty. The analogy only works if Northumbria or East Anglia had survived as distinct ethno-linguistic polities. Scotland was closer to Korea vis-à-vis China: a separate people with its own state tradition.

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@Mankosmash @arctotherium42 Active hostility isn’t necessary. Do humans ask ants for permission when building a highway over their nest? The best-case scenario would be a panda-like existence if AIs actually treated us the way we treat animals because they saw some other abstract value in keeping us around.

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@kvali_app Caucasus and Arabia had higher sustainable population limits than the Levant? I would guess the opposite tbh unless the regional definitions are a bit strange

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@Bob_Somebody021 I think that description fits warrior-aristocracy/clique states like the Mamluks or Vandals better than Rome. Rome repeatedly survived catastrophic defeats and succession crises, so relative to other premodern states it seems very resilient.

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@sadbathy The Bagratuni disappeared in the 13th-14th centuries, modern Armenians with that last name are descendants of larpers from the 19th century like Arsen “Bagratuni” (real last name Antimosian) who took on extinct aristocratic surnames to appear more noble

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@hykleri Nino not even in the top 5 anymore...