r/polandball • u/bobu112 Canada • Oct 27 '19

redditormade The Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire Part 9: The Cretan War

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u/bobu112 Oct 27 '19

After concluding the war with Persia, the Ottoman Empire renewed its efforts at Western expansion. Venice, weakened by economic reliance on Ottoman trade, growing political war-weariness due to financial exhaustion, and its lack of Spanish support, eventually lost Crete, its largest and most prosperous overseas colony, to the Ottomans as well as its position as a major power on the continent. Yet, the maintenance of overextended naval supply routes during such a lengthy campaign left costly scars on the Ottoman Empire, and would contribute to the social unrest and military defeats in the decades to come.

Link to the rest of the series

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u/[deleted] Nov 01 '19

Calling Suleiman the greatest conquerer is like calling Donald Trump the greatest businessman because they both got left a ton of shit by their dads at a time when everything was falling apart around them and all they had to do was not fuck up picking up the pieces.

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u/PereLoTers Oct 28 '19

The format of your second link is broken btw. When there's parentheses in the URL itself, you gotta place a back-slash before the parentheses characters so that the Reddit interpreter ignores it as part of the link instead of confusing it as the closing character of the link syntax.

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u/LenoM8 Oct 28 '19

Hahah, Spanish balloon and Venice Octopus ded. Very good

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u/Le_Pepp Oct 27 '19

What cretins

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u/DelphiSage Oct 28 '19

I sympathize with Spain's desire to burn Protestant God.

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u/KinnyRiddle Nov 02 '19

Just wait till he finds out God is Muslim. He'll absolutely lose it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '19

Beautiful. This is a masterpiece in my opinion.

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u/J1407b_ Oct 28 '19

So thats why the God Can doesn't work, God got burned at stake.

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u/TheReasonableCamel Oct 27 '19

Don't forget to flair as redditormade, I did it for you this time.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '19

I LOL'd at what Spain said when he floated away.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '19

Series Bobu is doing: Active: 1.Ottoman Empire Inactive (?):

  1. Ancient Egypt

  2. Ro-Mania

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u/freedompolis Oct 28 '19

Candia broke before the Guards.

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u/Gruntagen Oct 29 '19

most recent calendar comic

Why isn’t “Ataturk caused the Great Depression” a conspiracy theory?

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u/MikeWillTerminate Jan 08 '20

What the Spanish Netherlands is saying needs to be translated:

"NO STEP ON SNEK"

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u/Dimentio190 Feb 17 '20

Spain floating away is golden

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u/MikeWillTerminate Mar 30 '20

no tax without represent

oh the Eurotrash have one of these too.