Has anyone seen this video?
https://www.instagram.com/p/CDjGVPuF6Ln/?igshid=13wnjyoyxlv3l
That explosion was HUGE! I feel terrible for the people of Lebanon.
7 tons, so like a 14,000 lb bomb dropped on the city, unreal.
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What’s completely absent from the news is that Emmanuel Macron is for some time running a low-key offensive against political Islam in the Med and his triumphant walk through the streets of Beirut was another shot in this war. We’ll see whether he’ll manage to wrestle control over the Beirut port from the Russians and the Chinese.
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While I have a low key dislike of Jupiter, I wish him well in this endeavour. Hopefully he pulls it off.
It was considered 2750 metric tons ~ 6,000,000 lbs
OK City bomb was 7000 lbs
Wondered if you ever studied white vs red armies, post Russian revolution.
Curious why Tsarist officers didn’t bail out of the Red side and why it eventually was like 5x the size of White.
Just curious about a historical perspective of military fighting hostile government change/abdication.
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Inept leadership of the Whites, not to mention the infighting. The Siberian and South commands under Kolchak and Denikin basically fought separate wars against the Bolsheviks without much coordination.
Focus on Russian nationalism and the Orthodox Church didn’t help with other ethnic groups that made the Russian Empire who embarked on their separate (and mostly doomed) national projects fighting the Bolsheviks. Also, the alienated the SRs as the only viable anti-Bolshevik opposition on the left.
Heard of this guy? The Russian Colonel Kurtz…
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Have we come to the hour that we make Istanbul Constantinople once more?
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The savior of Western civilization is a suave gerontophile?
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@loppar It’s better than our current options.
Might as well go way back to Byzantium imo
The troops of Her Majesty have intervened to prevent this from happening. Twice. The second time around the Greeks already had a King named Constantine XII, a nod to the last ERE emperor Constantine XI.
The term is an 18th century invention - they’ve called themselves Romeians.
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We could always disinter Henri Gouraud. He could kick some sultan’s tomb at the Hagia Sophia.
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Who called themselves the Roemians? The Byzantines or Constantinoplese?
Eastern Roman Empire, Rhomaioi or “Romans” in Greek, hence Romeian Empire.
They never called themselves “Byzantines”, it’s an invention from the 18th century.
Arabs (and the Quran) also called the Byzantines ar-Rum meaning “Roman”.
Eugenio di Savoia as well.
I’m talking pre-Eastern Empire going back to when Rome’s Republic was waxing and the Greeks were fighting their civil war and before…it was Byzantium.
The old Greek city, yes. But Constantine actually wanted to call it “New Rome” before succumbing to megalomania
Lord preserve us from the Foreign office Arabist contingent, from whom much stupidity and misery flows.
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I think you are another of these desert-loving English: Doughty, Stanhope, Gordon of Khartoum. No Arab loves the desert. We love water and green trees, there is nothing in the desert. No man needs nothing.
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