skells @skells@qoto.org

@ademan @Stellar @fuggy godspeed

@sim I've already read the first half but it was years and years ago, so looking forward to going back over it

@sim gah spoilers bro

@laurel @MK2boogaloo @tarperfume @sim @fluffy

After fighting off successive Persian invasions, Hellas stood triumphant and sovereign. Front and centre stood the twin city states of Athens - decimated in the war with Persia but now ascendent in their dominance of the sea and trade - and Sparta - a proto-Communist military elite ruling their Helots with savage zeal.

Yet unease was not far away, as Athens began to convert the Anti-Persian Delian League into a de facto Athenian Empire, much to the chagrin and fear of Sparta.

The Pelopponesian War was the culmination of that unease and the war between Athens and Sparta has become the prototype of the Thucydides trap - the implicit threat of another superpower and the temptation to seize the initiative in a war for dominance.

This is the war that Thucydides sought to describe, a war that he fought in on the side of Athens. Histories had been written before yet Thucydides was the first to write a consciously "scientific" history - one which sought not just to tell an engaging story, but to understand the causes, motivations and consequences of the events.

@11112011 uhuh

@11112011 bro it's Tuesday

@ueber @IAMAL_PHARIUS if it's gonna break better get it done fast

@fluffy @FUCKINGWHOCARESDUDE qui bono

@Moon

@null new marine drone spotted off Odessa coast

@Jens_Rasmussen @dave @parker higher interest rate = debts have to be paid faster

a lot of global debt is denominated in USD so if you want to pay your bills you have to buy dollars, thus dollar goes up

or something to that effect