@RoyalApostolic That seems to be the real tragedy: Louis XIV did not harm France because he lacked greatness, but because he increasingly identified France’s greatness with the expansion of his own glory. His early and middle reign built the most formidable state in Europe.
I'm not into apologetics, yet I can say from the 4th crusade to the Thirty Years War that interdenominational disputes were subordinate to secular disputes in the incitement of most "religious" wars.
Yet this trope is repeated ad nauseum by "philosophers" without reflection.
Failed Peacemakers: Trump in 2025 compared to Wilson in 1917
Speculative stream in a few hours....
Will hopefully be doing a lot of Q&A
https://t.co/t4foQRNOZj
A wise politician once said of foreign policy, "speak softly, but carry a big stick".
Our modern politicians come from the school of shrieking hysterically while carrying a twig.
David Starkey is asked if he thinks multicultural societies can survive without authoritarianism - makes comparisons with Yugoslavia and calls mass immigration into Britain a “profound, world scale tragedy”