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US lost in Vietnam and Korea but don’t want to admit it. Let’s just call a spade a spade and admit military powers all suck.
And Afghanistan
Who didnt?
invade thier front lawn
Bit of a difference there. We’ll literally had to travel to the jungle.
Still lost? But a comparable country for us to invade would be Canada or Mexico.
That’s true and very fair, but also you did try to invade Canada and failed so badly they burned down the white house.
🎶 Oh, Caaaanadaaa… 🎶
The “51st state”? I have faith in the true North Americans. If they did it before, they can do it again.
But that also predates the US being a military hegemony sooo…
Yeah! Now we’re shitting on the US properly
invade would be Canada
How boot not, eh?
So give it a couple months and we find out?
Losing a trade war right now.
I wonder if future societies will view North Korea with the kind of “they’re cool because they had a harsh society that invested everything in military” attitude we reserve for ancient Sparta
The fact that many people think ancient Sparta is cool blows my mind. When someone praises ancient Sparta, I typically estimate there’s a 75% probability they’re a right-wing conservative.
No one’s exporting myths about NK’s military superiority. And they don’t have any accounts of them rebuffing a larger army to exaggerate.
Defended that one pass and have been coasting on it ever since…
Okay, also conquered Athens, but they had help.
They had help at the pass too. It was 300 Spartans out of about 7k total forces. Even the last stand had more non Spartans than Spartans.
Indeed, I find the sacrifice of the 700 Thespians more impressive.
Tryna tell me art-kids fought off Persian Immortals? Come off it, m8
Athens? If those boy lovers and philosophers have the courage to stand up to Persia, then Sparta will not bend.
I know this came from 300 but
Homosexual attraction sometimes existed in the form of pederasty, which influenced ancient Greek and especially Spartan military practices.[17] This usually consisted in romantic relations and mentoring by adult men with male youths. Pederastic relations are thought to have played some role with Sparta’s overarching “contest-system” or the agoge, which aimed to shape male Spartans into soldiers.[18]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_in_the_militaries_of_ancient_Greece
Interesting! Thanks for that, had no idea the practice was in Sparta. Yes the quote is from 300, even though it’s not exactly what he said in the movie. I was too lazy to look it up.
For more interesting writing about the historical Sparta, check out the history blog A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry:
- https://acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/
- https://acoup.blog/2019/08/23/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-ii-spartan-equality/
- https://acoup.blog/2019/08/29/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-iii-spartan-women/
- https://acoup.blog/2019/09/05/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-iv-spartan-wealth/
- https://acoup.blog/2019/09/12/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-v-spartan-government/
- https://acoup.blog/2019/09/20/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-vi-spartan-battle/
- https://acoup.blog/2019/09/27/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-vii-spartan-ends/
- https://acoup.blog/2022/08/19/collections-this-isnt-sparta-retrospective/
