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Corpun said:
None of the first types have probably ever heard of Murdoch Murdoch once.
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I remember when people used to accuse Internet Historian of being alt-right when he was new, which was during the height of Metokur's popularity no less.

Millennials whining about the boomers pulling up the ladder behind them on the housing market are often the ones who pulled up the ladder behind them on free speech.
 
Corpun said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sSJJ5XXM0UYLove this channel. There's something really niche but also very entertaining about some guy blabbing on about the history behind random graves and the people contained inside them. Guy does a lot of work trying to research and uncover the true story of the people as best he can from whatever new paper articles, papers, and other minute things exist in archives.


https://youtube.com/watch?v=gPgHkAlQ_N4Shitty pop history video on the HRE. I don't particulalry like Jack's content, it is very hit or miss but this one is probably one of his worst.
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What do you expect from a guy named after the worst pirate we've ever heard of?
 
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LovisXVI said:
My takeaway from this video series is that it seems Europe sent all their most traitorous, short sighted, and idiotic nobles to Jerusalem. Which makes sense, since those were the people who would need to do penitence the most and Jerusalem serves as a convenient dumping ground far away from them.
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The Crusader States weren't even sustainable in the first place. Yes you can conscript levies from local Christian or Muslim populations the same way you did in Europe, but neither of them are going to be particularly trusting of their Frankish Overlords and not many people have the means of will to settle in the Crusader States. There's a reason most coastal crusader settlements were populated by Italians from various merchant republics, and they had their own interests in mind.

Also something like 90% of actual knights and nobles who went on the first couple crusades just fucked off back to their estates. The ones that stayed probably didn't have much going for them at home or were second sons. It's no wonder all the military orders started popping up right after the First Crusade and rapidly transitioned from charity orders to military orders. There should really be a series on just how much of a mess the Kingdom of Jerusalem was, it's amazing it lasted as long as it did with how retarded the landed nobles were.

This is part of the reason I hate the Crusader autists. The other being they're generally spergy and autistic.
 
Corpun said:
The Crusader States weren't even sustainable in the first place. Yes you can conscript levies from local Christian or Muslim populations the same way you did in Europe, but neither of them are going to be particularly trusting of their Frankish Overlords and not many people have the means of will to settle in the Crusader States. There's a reason most coastal crusader settlements were populated by Italians from various merchant republics, and they had their own interests in mind.

Also something like 90% of actual knights and nobles who went on the first couple crusades just fucked off back to their estates. The ones that stayed probably didn't have much going for them at home or were second sons. It's no wonder all the military orders started popping up right after the First Crusade and rapidly transitioned from charity orders to military orders. There should really be a series on just how much of a mess the Kingdom of Jerusalem was, it's amazing it lasted as long as it did with how retarded the landed nobles were.

This is part of the reason I hate the Crusader autists. The other being they're generally spergy and autistic.
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Doesn't this make the crusaders look better rather than worse? Despite all these geographic problems, infighting, and bad selection pressures, it still took over a century for them to be driven out by a technologically equivalent foe with the home-field advantage.
 
Jarolleon said:
Doesn't this make the crusaders look better rather than worse? Despite all these geographic problems, infighting, and bad selection pressures, it still took over a century for them to be driven out by a technologically equivalent foe with the home-field advantage.
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In some light yes, but really geography was the key to why they lasted as long as they did. The coastal states never really expanded far inland. Furthest Jerusalem went as far as I can remember is trying to conquer the Sinai. The coastal states of Jerusalem, Tripoli, and parts of Antioch were all hemmed in by the East with mountains and steep hills that kind of forced certain routes for invasion or movement of large forces.

It's the same reason these regions have historically been the strongest Christian holdouts in the region have been along the Levantine Coast (See Lebanon pre all the refugees from Israel's wars) and why the County of Edessa and most of Antioch crumbled first.
 
Jarolleon said:
Doesn't this make the crusaders look better rather than worse? Despite all these geographic problems, infighting, and bad selection pressures, it still took over a century for them to be driven out by a technologically equivalent foe with the home-field advantage.
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I would say it makes the Muslims look even worse, given it took so long for them to annihilate those crusading chucklefucks.
 
LovisXVI said:
I would say it makes the Muslims look even worse, given it took so long for them to annihilate those crusading chucklefucks.
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Within the timespan of the First Crusade up until Saladin's conquest the surrounding Muslim states were divied into various city-states and regional powers. The whole reason the First Crusade even got through Seljuk territory was because the Seljuks underestimated them on first contact and then completely ignored them once they realized the Crusader target was their rivals in the Levant.

The whole period is this crazy medieval realpolitik where Christian and Muslim rulers would support each other politically and militarily in order to counterbalance with more aggressive rivals. Near the end of the Fatimid Caliphate in Egypt (Really complicated story, but they were Shia and basically collapsing for the last couple decades.) and before Saladin came to power as a result of that, the Crusaders tried to prop up the Fatimid Caliph and launch and invasion in support of his people against the increasing influence of Turkish and Kurdish (Sunni) mercenary forces that Saladin would eventually use to establish his own reign.

The crusader states were dependent on poor Muslim unity in the region, much like how today part of the Israeli strategy is to make sure all their neighbors are bombed out shithole nations held together by glue with simmering tribal tensions just under the surface.
 
Interesting and very in-depth breakdown of Soviet platoon tactics:

Interestingly, OP appears to be a natal woman (at least I hope so)
 
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