I really enjoyed the songs. Its not about dissing, but respecting the enemy of a great war.
The Turko-Russian Wars where one of the greatest war-series, like the Game of Thrones of the war-branche.
Both sides never experienced a greater foe.
Since 1453 Russians swear an oath to retake Istanbul back. Schools, churches, books, institutions, songs, movies, they use every port to propagate this desire.
Russians are not stupid. The Greek FM chose exactly this time of tensions to visit Ukraine (what a timing) and express support for Ukraines territorial integrity (thats including Donbass and Crimea).
Russians are very, very sensitive. They dont like this.
We should never gave commission to let the Varyag travel to China. We could stop it but our leaders were weak and blind.
Thanks to the Varyag, China developed their navy and produced their first carrier.
The Free University of Amsterdam, ended yesterday their cooperation with the Cross Cultural Humans Right Centre (CCHRC), a 'scientific' denktank sponsored by the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqwing because they hired Western academians to justify the Chinese actions...
Great succes like the Chinese social credit system? That the government controls how many times you shit at the toilet or when you stop before the trafficlight?
Egypts has a great army with brand new updated stuff, but you need a good coordination and organisation also and last but not least: generals with brains and good tactics.
Mongols where not only nomads, they were civilized, they had a empire, with statehood, and poets, arts and lectures. Marco Polo wrote about it.
The Huns were real nomads.