We should just take for granted that for most chattel slaves, in any era, including our own, life is appalling. Hence, the high rates of suicide among slaves. (View Post)

Pederasty is sex specifically with boys. Sex with 15 year olds, especially trafficked 15 year olds, is a crime in most places. (View Post)

It’s possible, but its fall has been imminently predicted for more than a year. All it means is that Russia would gain another pile of rubble, at a cost of thousands of lives, before having to repeat… (View Post)

Russia has fought a very stupid war. Three and a half years after Operation Barbarossa started, the Red Army was closing on Berlin. Three and a half years after the SMO began, Russia has advanced 20 … (View Post)

I just did an AI Overview google search on the performance of the Spanish army in the Peninsular War - and got quite a neat summary of my own thesis on the subject. (View Post)