>Arabs
>Mongols
>Macedonians
>Persians
>Franks
>Goths
>Seljuks
Will we ever again see a shithole suddenly unify and chimpout against the wole world?
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>Arabs
>Mongols
>Macedonians
>Persians
>Franks
>Goths
>Seljuks
Will we ever again see a shithole suddenly unify and chimpout against the wole world?
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If some form of the African Union gets its shit together.
I am betting on a massive Egypt-Ethiopia war on the side
Most shitholes are already unified. War just takes a longer time to start up Big wars will be China-US, China-India, Russia-US.
these places were the most wealthy and stable regions in the world before euro colonialism, even going so far as to develop a kind of proto industrialism, never hear about the gunpowder age?
>before euro colonialism
Hello,
my name is Nader Shah and I am here to frick your shit.
>posting a subhuman who led his country back a few centuries for ephemeral military glory
Cope, Sanjay. Nader modernized the Iranian military by finally embracing firearms to the fullest extent. It was his mental decline that fricked things up
>Nader modernized the Iranian military by finally embracing firearms
that was done since the early safavids during the reign of Tahmasp. It's obvious you don't know what you're talking about
Tahmasp didn't go far enough. Guns were still somewhat rare in the Iranian army. I've read Michael Axeworthy's book on him, but being a nameless faceless anon on the internet you obviously have trusted sources.
wait you posted nader shah to argue AGAINST the safavids? how weird
>literally no impact on history
>moron that only conquered a dying empire and waged a pointless war against Turks - lost all that land anyways
>centuries later some bored anglo want to write a history paper about some obscure footnote warlord that hasnt been written about yet
>"le napoleon of persia" meme was born
thats all you need to know about nader shah
>literally no impact on history
His rape of the Mughals helped the Brits colonize India.
He was one of the greatest military tactical geniuses in that period, you're clearly seething.
>le napoleon of persia
Shouldn't it be the other way around? Nader came before Bonaparte
Sure, you just have to wait for everyone else to go to shit. Every one of the examples you listed got lucky because they chimped out at the exact moment when all the big empires around them had either collapsed or were already mortally wounded after periods of terminal decline. like how a broken clock is right twice a day, sometimes their constant attacks hit at the perfect moment and they achieve massive success. The Mongols for instance spent centuries getting assblasted by China before Genghis attacked at the exact moment the Song and Abassid dynasties were in states of collapse. Then almost as soon as it happened the settled people get their shit together and the Mongols are relegated to historical footnotes again.
the Jazira did it literally a few years ago, but they got BTFO.
Very hard to do today and win with an international system committed to territorial stability and no superweapon remotely equivalent to nomadic cavalry
>Nomadic Cavalry
Sure it can be a very effective tool, but people who relate it always neglect to mention that Nomadic Cavalry spends 99% of the time being clowned on by the settled peoples. The reason they're nomadic in the first place is because they lost and got kicked off the good land and into the steppe. The big Steppe empires all came from lucky circumstances where everyone else had collapsed for unrelated reasons and the Nomads just rushed in to fill a power vacuum.
>shithole
The only "shithole" in your list was Mongolia. The Middle East was the most advanced area of the world at that time.
Yes but not in the steppe Black person way. Unless someone wants to come up with a concept of how a modern steppe horde could materialize or work. How would a state go balloon mongol/steppe style in the modern age of nukes? Terrorism? Idk.
No. Fun fact: there are more Mandarin-speaking Mongols in China than there are people in Mongolia.