Brandon Ortega

Conservative, Roman history enthusiast.

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@restoreorderusa Was just looking at some WW1 era German-American newspapers

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@bob273576848300 @HBet14 @adam7867863 Compare that to the Caliphate which made all Christians a permanent second-class. Under Islamic law, a non-Muslim's testimony was legally worth less and could never be used in court against a Muslim defendant.

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@bob273576848300 @HBet14 @adam7867863 While the Roman state periodically restricted heretics during political crackdowns, those policies were temporary and frequently ignored out of necessity. Non-Chalcedonianserved in the Senate ,local bureaucracies and the army.

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@rewhum @adam7867863 No the Muslim invaders didn't liberate the Copts quite the opposite the Muslim invaders made no distinction between Christian sects. Contemporary Coptic sources like John of Nikiu were very hostile to the Muslims.

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@bob273576848300 @adam7867863 Literally all contemporary Christian sources at the time, both Chalcedonian and Non-Chalcedonian, are hostile to the Muslim invaders. This myth that Eastern Christians 'welcomed' the Muslim invaders comes from much later Muslim sources and outdated modern history textbooks.

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@UpdatingOnRome And they did! One of the most beautiful panegyrics imo in honor of Rome was written by the Gallo-Roman poet Rutilius Claudius Namatianus.

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@hurrdurr39433 @not_our_guy I hate FDR for his naive policy towards the Soviets and Communism during the war but prior to the embargo on Japan he did genuinely try to reach an agreement with the Japanese in order to prevent the US from fighting a two front conflict.

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@UpdatingOnRome The World if the Romans won at Adrianople in 378 AD.

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@AeneasAwoken @realcentrist404 @QuodNostra I really like MacArthur, especially since he criticized Truman and Marshall for handing over China to the Communists, but what are your thoughts on his defense of the Philippines in 1942 and the events in Korea that took place after the Inchon landings?

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@zakidaadaa @RomeInTheEast No, the Copts weren't "freed" by the Muslim invaders. Contemporary Eastern Christian sources were all hostile to the Arabs.

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@Gyro141 @RomeInTheEast Not really when the Persians invaded the eastern provinces in the 540s Justinian prioritized the war against Persia over the wars in the west

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@Pat06433597 @AP4Liberty Diem with the help of the CIA in the 50s destroyed effective anti-communist militias like the Hao Hao and Cao Dai who were effective in keeping the communists out of rural communities. Also his anti Buddhist policies in a majority Buddhist country were a disaster.

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@Sarcasticlegend @AP4Liberty The Shah had been in power since the 40s he didn't need to be "installed". You also seem to believe the leftist myth about Mossedegh.
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@cboyack @grok Operation Ajax failed even Kermit Roosevelt himself told Eisenhower that the CIA had failed. Mossedegh lost the support of important people in Tehran including the clergy even Khomeini himself said Mossedegh had been "slapped by Islam" in 1953 for disrespecting the clergy.

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@BukhariCorpus @DrewPavlou Fighting Communism is a good thing. However, the war was definitely badly run, such as the CIA helping an incompetent like Ngo Diem come to power and helping him suppress effective anti-Communist militias like the Hao Hao and Cao Dai.

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@AlperKaanAnkara @CatImperator The revenues that would have come from the taxes of Italy and Africa would have been more than enough to cover the cost of the conquest had the Plague and Volcanic winter of 536 not happened.

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@glxyglxyglxy1 @PoliticalStacy The problem was more that after 20 years of New Deal liberals in power the state department was full of Naive liberals and Communist sympathizers who had no problem handing half of Europe to the Soviets and back stabbing our KMT allies in China

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@4MissedFTs @PoliticalStacy @riznoss Communist sympathizing leftist like John Service and Owen lattimore advocated for the US to work with the Communists and throw the KMT under the bus. Also an obvious Soviet spy like Harry Dexter White also did his best to sabotage our KMT allies.

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@The_JBS Hey JBS as a silver stacker I have to ask what are your thoughts on the Hunt Brothers of silver Thursday fame. Nelson Hunt was a member of the JBS.