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Tuesday, December 12, 2017

I ORDERED KURT ANDERSEN'S HOW AMERICA WENT HAYWIRE

At least he has a long enough time frame to be partly right.
 
500 years is about my own estimation...
 
Maybe he will also start with the Reformation, the first big going haywire event for me too.

Say, maybe he's just copied my blog!

It really is a rather larger story: how Western Civilization went haywire....not primarily America, the American Rebellion only a sort of sad side show, really, big picture.

Mehmet II knocked down the walls of Constantinople, and then besieged Europe because Luther's Reformation distracted the Hapsburgs,  just a few decades meanwhile before the Spanish finally finished driving the Moors and Jews from Spain.

So, bottom line, Muslims then poured into Southeastern Europe, just about the time that their Muslim brethren had just been finally driven from Spain.

The Sultan continued to beleaguer Southeastern Europe until the mid 18th Century, and remnants of Muslims have caused problems ever since, throughout the Balkan Peninsula until today.

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