@jusderaisingroy Funnily enough, genetics didn't matter.
It was a political choice and a shared geopolitical interest, so much so that even prominent figures of French or German descent actively led the Slavic cause. No DNA test needed🙂
@jusderaisingroy Prague 1848 was just the tip of the iceberg. In the shadows, the Slavs had a powerful spy network at Hotel Lambert in Paris. Czartoryski and his crew sowed the seeds that ultimately shattered the old imperial order by 1918.
@LandsknechtPike It was a deeply porous border! Christian marchers and Ottoman agas went from trading blows to trading Hungarian cattle and silk in the blink of an eye. Local commanders even formed blood brotherhoods and hammered out joint tax deals.
@LandsknechtPike Loyseau’s 1610 tract is an Ancien Régime catalog, but the actual Feudal Manifesto was legally coded 400 years prior.
Eike von Repgow’s Sachsenspiegel (1220) already structured the entire estate hierarchy, from the Two Swords theory to the 7 military shields.
@LandsknechtPike In 1574, Lambert de Vos painted Ottoman costumes in full color while in Istanbul: a manuscript now known as the "Türkisches Kostümbuch" (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, ms or 009). https://t.co/TgHnA6vQAt
@LandsknechtPike In 1574, Lambert de Vos painted Ottoman costumes in full color while in Istanbul: a manuscript now known as the "Türkisches Kostümbuch" (Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, ms or 009). https://t.co/TgHnA6vQAt
@Smithwessonrev@LandsknechtPike True, they panicked because the Austrians &Germans feared for their male honor, knowing the superior Ottomans were busy nurturing romantic relationships with their camp boy-lovers'(civelek). Scary military doctrine😂 No wonder they shot each other while drunk.😁
@Smithwessonrev@LandsknechtPike Beautifully argued
Very academic🥰.
Next time, try reading about Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa and the "Hunter" Sultan Mehmed IV instead of throwing tantrums.😭
@Smithwessonrev@LandsknechtPike They reached Vienna through geopolitics,not ease.Allied with Hungarian rebels&backed by Louis XIV's pressure on the Habsburgs, they bypassed forts.Kara Mustafa saw Vienna as a private investment,funding it himself,then delaying the attack to pocket its wealth, causing his ruin!
@EnvinyaTelconta@Smithwessonrev@LandsknechtPike 2/2 You mistake a systemic flaw for romance. 16th-c. Europe had evolved/Paper King' Philip II ruled from a desk, and armies used professional generals/ Ottoman autocracy trapped Suleiman in the mud to prove his legitimacy, turning his death into a hidden 48-day liability!
@EnvinyaTelconta@Smithwessonrev@LandsknechtPike 1/2 No mind-reading, just Ottoman imperial decrees😂. A Gazi Sultan’s legitimacy rested entirely on military victory. Post-Malta 1565, Suleiman’s prestige was badly stained; the 1566 campaign was launched precisely to restore that prestige!
@Smithwessonrev@LandsknechtPike Szigetvar proved the Ottomans reached their logistical culmination point. Shattering the myth of invincibility, 2,500 defenders forced a total halt to Suleiman’s final campaign.
The 1568 Treaty of Adrianople traded tribute for a rigid status quo🙂that permanently saved Vienna.
@Smithwessonrev@LandsknechtPike Imagine crying about walls when the Ottomans literally survived the Persian wars by hiding behind the massive fortresses of Van, Kars, and Baghdad! That's how war works.
Szigetvar's walls cost Suleiman his life and 30k+ troops. Hit the gym, history isn't your thing🤣
@EnvinyaTelconta@Smithwessonrev@LandsknechtPike Oh, I didn’t forget them! Murdering Mustafa triggered a massive revolt around a FAKE Mustafa😎the peak of Suleiman’s unpopularity. Belgrade wasn't standard protocol🙂 it was pure extortion because the Janissaries knew their power, terrifying Selim the Drunkard🍷
@Smithwessonrev@LandsknechtPike 2000 km? 😭 It's 1300 km. He didn't ride a horse; he traveled in a carriage-bed due to gout!
He wanted to "push the Habsburgs into a clash", but instead he got dragged into Szigetvar because a handful of fierce Croats ruined his plans and left his army rotting in the mud.😁
@EnvinyaTelconta@Smithwessonrev@LandsknechtPike Calling Malta and Mustafa "irrelevant" is peak historical ignorance.! Szigetvar happened precisely because Suleiman desperately needed a victory to save face after the humiliation at Malta, and to restore the army's trust after Mustafa. Facts aren't "spamming"🙂
@EnvinyaTelconta@Smithwessonrev@LandsknechtPike Imagine calling a 48-day cover-up of a rotting sultan "standard protocol"😁Sokollu didn't hide it because he was "decent", he hid it because the Janissaries would lay siege to their own Vezir if they knew Suleiman was dead.