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Is conquering a country simply the occupation of its capital city?


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2024 Dec 12, 1:30pm   66 views  6 comments

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I read the life of Alexander the Great in Plutarch, and was amazed at how he swept though Anatolia and the Middle East, setting up Greek government in every place he conquered.

Was it simply a matter of taking over the capital city in each case, so that the tax revenue went to him?

Maybe conquering a country is rather like domesticating dogs. Dogs are pack animals and genetically inclined to follow the top dog. So humans simply replaced the top dogs with themselves. In the case of a centralized country, that makes the job of conquering rather simple. Just put yourself in the top position and let things run as before.

Alexander did this exceptionally well in Egypt, which was centralized around the Pharaoh. He literally installed his general Ptolemy as Pharaoh and the Egyptians just shrugged and carried on as usual. That lasted around 400 years. The Greeks didn't even bother to learn the Egyptian language until Cleopatra did around the year zero.

Am I missing something? Was it really that simple?

I've read that one reason the British had a hard time with Ireland is that it was never under centralized Irish control, but rather dispersed and rural. So there was no capital city to conquer.


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1   Ceffer   2024 Dec 12, 3:09pm  

Seems to work for our Republic, since we have been captured by foreign powers acting under pretense of corporate services since 1871 in the foreign occupied foreign city state of Washington DC.

Hopefully, El Trumpo will return things back to the Republic and remove the foreign British and Roman rot from our country once and for all. The ports were released at the beginning of October from the British and Vatican treaties from the war of 1812 (now, how many people even knew about that one?).

Maybe that is why the Pope is opening five demon portals to unleash on Trump for his apostasy to their dominion.
2   Patrick   2024 Dec 12, 3:21pm  

Ceffer says

The ports were released at the beginning of October from the British and Vatican treaties from the war of 1812


@Ceffer Got a link about that?
3   Patrick   2024 Dec 12, 3:26pm  

Also note that the sudden evaporation of our civil liberties during the scamdemic was driven by centralized control from above.

For example, all doctors had to shut up about the dangers of the death jabs and repeat the lie "safe and effective" over and over or risk losing their medical licenses which were so expensive to obtain. That was driven by Fauci and CDC "guidance" from the centralized powers that control the medical establishment.
4   Ceffer   2024 Dec 12, 3:44pm  

I had a link from previous posts at the time but it is lost in Patnet somewhere. In spite of our claimed history, we lost the War of 1812 and part of the treaty and settlements allowed some kind of management of our ports under the auspices of the Crown and the Vatican (like the foreign corporate takeover of DC in 1871), and that expired in October.

I guess they wanted the zombie management like bankrupt DC corporation to lurch forward without anybody's notice as business as usual, but the Brit management prevented longshoremen from investigating containers where they suspected foul play. They heard people in the containers and couldn't open them up. The City of London, of course, is eyeballs deep in international crime, drugs and trafficking, as they always have been.

That was at least partly why the longshoremen were striking in October. The strike was resolved quickly, because the full management of American ports was apparently returned to us. Also, the bankruptcy lag period of the DC foreign corporation was also decisively over, so that the DC corporations from 1871 and thereabouts was decisively gone.

I have a .pdf from Anna Von Reitz that touches on it, although not specifically the port issue. I had another somewhere but have to look for it.view pdf

https://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=247246
5   DOGEWontAmountToShit   2024 Dec 12, 5:13pm  

Ceffer says

In spite of our claimed history, we lost the War of 1812


Yup:


6   stereotomy   2024 Dec 12, 7:00pm  

That is why the 1st and 2nd amendments are so revolutionary. No army can (in the absence of nukes) subjugate a country where every man, woman, and child can fire rifle and shotgun.

Yeah, the limeys burned DC, but they probably did us a service. They didn't try to invade Appalachia now, did they? Because "A country boy can survive . . . "
White trash knows who their enemies are, and they will deal with them on their own terms.

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