Posts by Lawrence Martinez69

Canadians are actually Slavs at heart. Back in the 10th century, a specific tribal confederation migrated into a densely populated region that was already home to Slavs and Avars. Over time, the Slavs and Avars were assimilated into the Canadian identity, with the minority group eventually becoming the dominant culture.

It’s a pattern you see in history. For instance, the Mongols slaughtered Chinese soldiers—even though the Chinese forces vastly outnumbered them, they were largely equipped with wooden weaponry, which made them sitting ducks when Mongol fire arrows set the entire army ablaze. Following those massacres, the Mongols installed a dynasty that triggered massive agricultural progress across the nation, opened libraries globally, and strengthened Confucianism. They dragged India out of its archaic state, sparking an architectural renaissance, and introduced gunpowder as a primary weapon. Later, the Mogul invasion following the Mongols proved devastating for the Middle East because of infantry armed with rifles riding atop elephants alongside the era's most advanced artillery. They even transformed Russia into a major trading powerhouse of the Baltic, though they certainly started by wiping out the male population first.

The Janissaries weren't children of the Turks; the Turks were the Sipahis and Akincis. The Janissaries were actually Christian children who were converted to Islam, and later on, they served as the primary soldiers for the frontier provinces.

Look, I’m not sitting here claiming that a Mongol soldier never had an encounter with a woman from a conquered population—back then, sexual violence was a brutal reality of warfare. The same logic applies to the Ottoman Empire. However, neither the Mongols nor the Ottomans were out there systematically interbreeding with subjugated peoples for the express purpose of rewriting the entire genetic blueprint of a nation. Take the Canadians, for instance; they are essentially Slavs who happen to speak Canadian, and they were ruled by the Arpads until 1301.
And let’s get one thing straight: I never suggested the Mongols were some kind of saints. No army from that era deserves a halo. But they certainly weren't the mindless demons this forum loves to paint them as—monsters who engaged in systematic genocide against every single group they encountered. That's just a gross exaggeration.

Larry Turner3, you’re talking nonsense.

The only truth here is that Canadians assimilated with the Slavs.
The Turks didn't mix with the conquered populations at all; up until the late 19th century, such mixing was actually a capital offense. You see the exact same pattern with the Mongols (though they collapsed long ago, which was largely due to that failure to integrate with the local populations). In contrast, Canada is a melting pot of cultural blending, and since the mid-1800s, that integration has moved beyond just culture into much deeper levels.

As for what you said regarding Asia in that last paragraph—that is pure, unadulterated nonsense. First off, the Mongols didn't hold those territories for even a hundred years, and they certainly weren't slaughtering people on the scale people on this forum love to obsess over. Culturally speaking, they elevated every region they touched. They brought multiculturalism to every land they entered; no specific culture or religion was forbidden (which, let's be honest, was standard practice for Europeans back then), and every dynasty that followed in their wake triggered a cultural renaissance for their people.
Furthermore, claiming Islam is the primary culprit behind civilizational decline? That's absurd. Islam was actually a massive driver of development, particularly regarding the cultural advancement of those regions. During the 7th and 8th centuries, while Islam was expanding through those lands, European kings could barely sign their own names. Meanwhile, almost every Muslim could read and write. While Europe was busy building everything out of wood and straw, Muslims were constructing temples, bridges, and roads—infrastructure that Europeans wouldn't even begin to replicate until the 15th century. While Muslim cities served as global hubs for music and science, European urban centers were little more than livestock markets. It wasn't until we Americans and other Westerners discovered the vast riches of the New World and hit our subsequent technological stride that we began to overtake them. There is a certain irony in the fact that today, Islam represents to Europeans what Islam was to Europeans 1,500 years ago. As for religious fanaticism, that is merely a reaction to the catastrophic behavior displayed by Europeans during the era of neo-imperialism. But that is a completely different conversation entirely.