Thursday 26 August 2021
Historians say History doesn't Repeat itself... But...
In 376 AD the Goths, under pressure from the Huns, turned up on the Northern banks of the Danube and asked the Romans permission to live in their Empire. The Romans agreed on two conditions: That they give up their weapons and their children. The Goths managed to keep many of their weapons in exchange for allowing the weapons inspectors to sleep with their wives and daughters. They defeated the Romans at the Battle of Adrianople on 9 August 378. They got their children back. Those children sacked Rome in August 410 AD.
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Pakistan has "almost completed" a wall on its border with Afghanistan. Turkey has built a wall on its border with Iran, Greece with Turkey, and Poland with Belarus. Will these walls prove to be as ineffective as Britain's "wall", the English Channel?... Very probably.
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