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Everyone is celebrating all these companies pulling out of Russia. It is just a bunch of normal people losing their jobs. Not something that should be celebrated.

Everyone is celebrating all these companies pulling out of Russia. It is just a bunch of normal people losing their jobs. Not something that should be celebrated.

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[–] [deleted] • 0 pt (edited )

What is left today of the aztec empire and religion?

Afghanistan used to be a buddhist country. How much buddhism is left in Afghans living there today? Isn't it even wild to consider, that Afghanistan used to be ruled by buddhists?

And in other cases you may think of, how ruthless were the conquerors? Christians allowed Vikings to live, if they converted to Christianity. Still, beyond our days being named after viking gods and some rites, I don't think much is left of the Viking culture. And that was merely a conversion, albeit a bloody one, not a full blown genocide.

It's possible to erradicate a culture. And if you don't take pity on them or take uncastrated slaves, perhaps even to erradicate the people themselves.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Whats left of the spanish empire? Mexico?

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt (edited )

Certainly more than of Buddhism in Afghanistan.

The Taliban not too long ago destroyed . I guess being confronted with another religion is an offense to Islam. History being erradicated.

An intermixing with the subjects you conquer, is at best a risk. Not a guaranteed outcome. And the difference in wealth and technology is today much greater than it ever used to be. If a modern empire emerges without any pity or mercy, I believe that risk today would be close to zero. You can now slaughter people without ever seeing their face or even sillhouette.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt (edited )

The problem is it galvanizes everyone to fight against you. And they'll fight harder and in more ruthless ways because they are fighting for survival and your just fighting for expansion. For some trivial shit like killing some barely above stone age tech tribe it doesnt matter but why bother if you ignored/left them in isolation then they also wouldn't matter. But as soon as you come up a handful of similarly developed cultures that align against you it's going to be a stale mate or worse. Empires always go route 2 and absorb their opponents into their system and ultimately it destroys them. Look at every empire and they all collapse the same way from rome to the catholic church, english, spanish, french and now the US.