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History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918
"History That Doesn't Suck is a bi -weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HGDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck. It's a cool autumn morning, November 3rd, 1918. We're aboard one of the Imperial German Navy's pre -dreadnought battleships. The SMS Lothringen, currently lying at anchor in the harbor of Kiel, Germany. And Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf is heading to his quarters to put on his parade uniform. Once dressed appropriately, he intends to go ashore and into town to join his fellow frustrated sailors. They will parade. They will march. They will demand better. And Richard is here for it. Okay, time out. Let me fill you in on the situation. For years now, the German Navy has underfed and overworked its average sailors. Meanwhile, these somewhat abused seamen have little to show for their suffering. Indeed, apart from submarine warfare and the 1916 Battle of Jutland, German warships have largely spent this war hemmed in by Britain's effective blockade. With a coming armistice then, one that may well effectively end the German Navy, the Imperial Naval High Command believes that the answer is to sail forth and meet the Brits in battle. Better to meet a glorious death and a watery grave than to be ended by an armistice. Ah, but their hungry mistreated sailors see it differently. Why on earth would they want to go on a suicide mission merely to save the pride of their egotistical admirals? Thus, upon receiving orders a few days ago to engage the Brits in an epic but deadly throwdown at sea, Stokers aboard a few ships responded by intentionally allowing the Boilers fires to go out. Full on mutiny sees the dreadnought class SMS Hegoland and SMS Thuringen. The crew of the latter even locked up their petty officers. The Navy answered by locking up hundreds of these mutinous sailors and keel. And that's why today, Richard and hundreds of other sailors are taken to the streets to protest the incarceration of their naval brothers. And with that background, let's return to the story. Down in his quarters, Richard and other sailors are nearly done dressing. But as they buckle belts and button coats, a few officers enter asking what they can do to appease the men. Sympathetically, Richard answers, we have nothing against our officers. Nevertheless, we shall parade in the streets to obtain our rights. Nearly the whole crew agrees. The SMS Lothringen all but empties as sailors make for shore. Reaching Keel's Old Port Barracks later that afternoon, Richard is astounded. Everywhere he turns, he sees endless droves of sailors and on one side, a long line of rifle bearing Marines who've joined them. Damn, this parade has gained traction. Departing from the parade ground, the sailors and Marines make their way to the flagship now at port, the SMS Baden. After a brief shouting match between the crowd and the captain, a full third of this dreadnought battleship's crew join its ranks. Continuing on, an impromptu marching band gives some semblance of order while another 40 men fall in as they reach Pieterstraße, that is, Peter Street. But soon, our narrator, Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf, realizes that they do indeed only have a semblance of order. That they're turning into a leaderless mob, and he worries that things might get out of hand. It's now 6 p .m. The boisterous throng of servicemen are in front of the city's Marine barracks. Within a moment's time, they rip the gate off its hinges. The flustered, angry sailors then pour through the opening. One elderly major dares to oppose them. Several men surround him, take his gun and ride his epaulettes. Richard looks on, aghast. He feels sympathy for the elderly officer only trying to do his duty. This isn't what Richard had in mind when he came to heel to march for his rights. Freeing a few men being detained at the barracks, the mob of sailors continues on. Politically on the right, Richard grows uneasy as one speech giver calls out that they should hang the Kaiser. His discomfort grows as red cloths and a red bed sheet make for impromptu flags. He's appalled at a dock worker who takes the quickly raised speaker stand near station headquarters to call for the establishment of a Soviet republic. But despite his fellow sailors communist sympathies, or should I say Bolshevism, as these communist minded Germans are inspired by the recent Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Richard is pleased to see how relatively nonviolent things have stayed. Well, if only he knew what was going on elsewhere in Kiel. It's now just past 7 p .m. Among the thousands marching through the streets tonight, a different group far from Richards is approaching the military prison where the stokers who let their ship's boilers go cold are being detained. And these marchers are determined to see these men freed. They howl, shout and yell. Their angry cries are greeted by soldiers loyal to the Kaiser. Troops quickly choke off the street. The commander orders the advancing sailors to stop, but they ignore him. The officer then orders his men to fire above the sailors heads. The throng is undeterred by these warning shots. The endless mass of men continues to advance toward them. The commander orders another volley, but this one is no warning. Bullets tear through flesh. Some sailors fall dead, others screaming agony, while still more return fire or throw stones. This is no longer a mere parade through Kiel. This is the start of the German revolution. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. That violent confrontation on the streets of Kiel left eight sailors dead and 29 more wounded. But the Kaiser soldiers weren't without their losses either. Their commander and one lieutenant died, both taken out by knives and stones. Clearly, Germany isn't only struggling on the front, it's struggling at home. It can no longer sustain this war. And that brings us to today's story. The armistice that, after four long, blood -soaked years, will finally silence the guns of World War I. To properly contextualize this hallowed moment, we'll start at the same place Germany does as it seeks peace, by looking to US President Woodrow Wilson's proposed path to peace, his 14 points. I'll remind you what these are before we listen to Woodrow pitch them in a September 1918 speech. We'll then follow his back and forth with the Germans and follow other discussions among allied leaders, all of which will ultimately lead us to a cold and fraught moment of diplomacy between four Germans and four allied leaders, and Marshal Ferdinand Foch's train carriage, somewhere secret, in France's Compiègne forest. With no leverage and a revolution consuming their nation, the German delegates are in a tough spot. But ultimately, we'll see an armistice struck. We'll then end this war, this brutal, awful war, as we watch it continue to take lives right up to the moment that the armistice takes effect at 11 o 'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. But having done all of that and taken stock of all the loss, we'll see the joy and relief that washes over all the soldiers, allied and German alike, as their nightmare ends. Well, ready to experience one of the most intense moments in the history of diplomacy? Then let's get to it, and we start with our professorial president, waxing eloquent with his 14 points. Rewind. Woodrow Wilson is no fan of war. On the contrary, the former New Jersey governor and Princeton professor and president turned US president is a proponent of peace. We've seen that in several past episodes. In 132, we heard that effective, if boring, campaign slogan, he kept us out of war, and witnessed how pained the professorial president was to ask Congress to declare war. In 133, we caught the full contrast between him and his hawkish predecessor, former President Theodore Roosevelt. And in 136, we got a taste of Woodrow's 14 points, which, if adhered to, he hopes will ensure a lasting peace after the Great War. But do we remember just what these 14 points are? Well, here's a quick refresher. Woodrow first presented his 14 points while speaking to Congress at the start of this year, on January 8th, 1918. The professorial president called them, quote, the program of the world's peace, the only possible program, close quote. His right -hand man, Edward House, better known by the honorary title, Colonel House, described the 14 points as, quote, a declaration of human liberty and a declaration of the terms which should be written into the peace conference, close quote. The first five points are rules that Woodrow wants all nations to follow. No secret treaties, freedom to navigate the seas, free trade among all nations, signing the coming peace, arms reductions, and finally, an adjustment of all colonial claims that takes the will of colonized peoples and questions of their own sovereignty into mind. Points six through 13 call for specific changes to the map of Europe and the Ottoman Empire, none of which are surprising if you recall the territorial throw downs that helped cause the war. They include the central powers evacuating Russia, Germany evacuating a restored Belgium, Germany returning Alsace -Lorraine to France, an adjustment of Italian borders along nationalist lines, self -determination in the Austro -Hungarian Empire, new borders drawn in the Balkans, a Turkish state with free trade in the Dardanelles, and finally, an independent Poland. As for his last 14th point, Woodrow wants to see an end not just to this war but to all wars. He wants an organization, say a league of nations if you will, to ensure that everyone, big countries and small, are treated fairly. Huh, that's very New Jersey plan of you, Professor Wilson. Constitutional convention jokes aside, Woodrow Wilson believes his 14 points are the way to a lasting permanent peace. In fact, he's so sure of it that as the beleaguered central power of Austria -Hungary tries to initiate peace talks on September 14, 1918, Woodrow quickly rejects them. In the president's mind, there's nothing to discuss. He's already made the terms clear. Austria -Hungary can get back in touch when they want to agree to his 14 points. But is it wise to take such a hard stance on these points, especially when his points are well -meaning but vague? After all, who decides what a quote -unquote impartial adjustment of colonial claims looks like? Who defines self -determination and other such terms? Those questions aren't important to Woodrow. As America enters the Meuse -Argonne campaign, its largest battle to date, one that will send tens of thousands of young doughboys to their graves, Woodrow wants their blood sacrifice to mean something. This war must be, to borrow a phrase recently coined by English author H .G. Wells, the war to end all wars. Thus, the idealistic president is ready to pitch his 14 points to everyone, including the American people.
History That Doesn't Suck
A highlight from 146: The Armistice of November 11, 1918
"History That Doesn't Suck is a bi -weekly podcast delivering a legit, seriously researched, hard -hitting survey of American history through entertaining stories. If you'd like to support HGDS or enjoy bonus content, please consider giving at patreon .com forward slash history that doesn't suck. It's a cool autumn morning, November 3rd, 1918. We're aboard one of the Imperial German Navy's pre -dreadnought battleships. The SMS Lothringen, currently lying at anchor in the harbor of Kiel, Germany. And Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf is heading to his quarters to put on his parade uniform. Once dressed appropriately, he intends to go ashore and into town to join his fellow frustrated sailors. They will parade. They will march. They will demand better. And Richard is here for it. Okay, time out. Let me fill you in on the situation. For years now, the German Navy has underfed and overworked its average sailors. Meanwhile, these somewhat abused seamen have little to show for their suffering. Indeed, apart from submarine warfare and the 1916 Battle of Jutland, German warships have largely spent this war hemmed in by Britain's effective blockade. With a coming armistice then, one that may well effectively end the German Navy, the Imperial Naval High Command believes that the answer is to sail forth and meet the Brits in battle. Better to meet a glorious death and a watery grave than to be ended by an armistice. Ah, but their hungry mistreated sailors see it differently. Why on earth would they want to go on a suicide mission merely to save the pride of their egotistical admirals? Thus, upon receiving orders a few days ago to engage the Brits in an epic but deadly throwdown at sea, Stokers aboard a few ships responded by intentionally allowing the Boilers fires to go out. Full on mutiny sees the dreadnought class SMS Hegoland and SMS Thuringen. The crew of the latter even locked up their petty officers. The Navy answered by locking up hundreds of these mutinous sailors and keel. And that's why today, Richard and hundreds of other sailors are taken to the streets to protest the incarceration of their naval brothers. And with that background, let's return to the story. Down in his quarters, Richard and other sailors are nearly done dressing. But as they buckle belts and button coats, a few officers enter asking what they can do to appease the men. Sympathetically, Richard answers, we have nothing against our officers. Nevertheless, we shall parade in the streets to obtain our rights. Nearly the whole crew agrees. The SMS Lothringen all but empties as sailors make for shore. Reaching Keel's Old Port Barracks later that afternoon, Richard is astounded. Everywhere he turns, he sees endless droves of sailors and on one side, a long line of rifle bearing Marines who've joined them. Damn, this parade has gained traction. Departing from the parade ground, the sailors and Marines make their way to the flagship now at port, the SMS Baden. After a brief shouting match between the crowd and the captain, a full third of this dreadnought battleship's crew join its ranks. Continuing on, an impromptu marching band gives some semblance of order while another 40 men fall in as they reach Pieterstraße, that is, Peter Street. But soon, our narrator, Seaman First Class Richard Stumpf, realizes that they do indeed only have a semblance of order. That they're turning into a leaderless mob, and he worries that things might get out of hand. It's now 6 p .m. The boisterous throng of servicemen are in front of the city's Marine barracks. Within a moment's time, they rip the gate off its hinges. The flustered, angry sailors then pour through the opening. One elderly major dares to oppose them. Several men surround him, take his gun and ride his epaulettes. Richard looks on, aghast. He feels sympathy for the elderly officer only trying to do his duty. This isn't what Richard had in mind when he came to heel to march for his rights. Freeing a few men being detained at the barracks, the mob of sailors continues on. Politically on the right, Richard grows uneasy as one speech giver calls out that they should hang the Kaiser. His discomfort grows as red cloths and a red bed sheet make for impromptu flags. He's appalled at a dock worker who takes the quickly raised speaker stand near station headquarters to call for the establishment of a Soviet republic. But despite his fellow sailors communist sympathies, or should I say Bolshevism, as these communist minded Germans are inspired by the recent Bolshevik revolution in Russia, Richard is pleased to see how relatively nonviolent things have stayed. Well, if only he knew what was going on elsewhere in Kiel. It's now just past 7 p .m. Among the thousands marching through the streets tonight, a different group far from Richards is approaching the military prison where the stokers who let their ship's boilers go cold are being detained. And these marchers are determined to see these men freed. They howl, shout and yell. Their angry cries are greeted by soldiers loyal to the Kaiser. Troops quickly choke off the street. The commander orders the advancing sailors to stop, but they ignore him. The officer then orders his men to fire above the sailors heads. The throng is undeterred by these warning shots. The endless mass of men continues to advance toward them. The commander orders another volley, but this one is no warning. Bullets tear through flesh. Some sailors fall dead, others screaming agony, while still more return fire or throw stones. This is no longer a mere parade through Kiel. This is the start of the German revolution. Welcome to History That Doesn't Suck. I'm your professor, Greg Jackson, and I'd like to tell you a story. That violent confrontation on the streets of Kiel left eight sailors dead and 29 more wounded. But the Kaiser soldiers weren't without their losses either. Their commander and one lieutenant died, both taken out by knives and stones. Clearly, Germany isn't only struggling on the front, it's struggling at home. It can no longer sustain this war. And that brings us to today's story. The armistice that, after four long, blood -soaked years, will finally silence the guns of World War I. To properly contextualize this hallowed moment, we'll start at the same place Germany does as it seeks peace, by looking to US President Woodrow Wilson's proposed path to peace, his 14 points. I'll remind you what these are before we listen to Woodrow pitch them in a September 1918 speech. We'll then follow his back and forth with the Germans and follow other discussions among allied leaders, all of which will ultimately lead us to a cold and fraught moment of diplomacy between four Germans and four allied leaders, and Marshal Ferdinand Foch's train carriage, somewhere secret, in France's Compiègne forest. With no leverage and a revolution consuming their nation, the German delegates are in a tough spot. But ultimately, we'll see an armistice struck. We'll then end this war, this brutal, awful war, as we watch it continue to take lives right up to the moment that the armistice takes effect at 11 o 'clock on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918. But having done all of that and taken stock of all the loss, we'll see the joy and relief that washes over all the soldiers, allied and German alike, as their nightmare ends. Well, ready to experience one of the most intense moments in the history of diplomacy? Then let's get to it, and we start with our professorial president, waxing eloquent with his 14 points. Rewind. Woodrow Wilson is no fan of war. On the contrary, the former New Jersey governor and Princeton professor and president turned US president is a proponent of peace. We've seen that in several past episodes. In 132, we heard that effective, if boring, campaign slogan, he kept us out of war, and witnessed how pained the professorial president was to ask Congress to declare war. In 133, we caught the full contrast between him and his hawkish predecessor, former President Theodore Roosevelt. And in 136, we got a taste of Woodrow's 14 points, which, if adhered to, he hopes will ensure a lasting peace after the Great War. But do we remember just what these 14 points are? Well, here's a quick refresher. Woodrow first presented his 14 points while speaking to Congress at the start of this year, on January 8th, 1918. The professorial president called them, quote, the program of the world's peace, the only possible program, close quote. His right -hand man, Edward House, better known by the honorary title, Colonel House, described the 14 points as, quote, a declaration of human liberty and a declaration of the terms which should be written into the peace conference, close quote. The first five points are rules that Woodrow wants all nations to follow. No secret treaties, freedom to navigate the seas, free trade among all nations, signing the coming peace, arms reductions, and finally, an adjustment of all colonial claims that takes the will of colonized peoples and questions of their own sovereignty into mind. Points six through 13 call for specific changes to the map of Europe and the Ottoman Empire, none of which are surprising if you recall the territorial throw downs that helped cause the war. They include the central powers evacuating Russia, Germany evacuating a restored Belgium, Germany returning Alsace -Lorraine to France, an adjustment of Italian borders along nationalist lines, self -determination in the Austro -Hungarian Empire, new borders drawn in the Balkans, a Turkish state with free trade in the Dardanelles, and finally, an independent Poland. As for his last 14th point, Woodrow wants to see an end not just to this war but to all wars. He wants an organization, say a league of nations if you will, to ensure that everyone, big countries and small, are treated fairly. Huh, that's very New Jersey plan of you, Professor Wilson. Constitutional convention jokes aside, Woodrow Wilson believes his 14 points are the way to a lasting permanent peace. In fact, he's so sure of it that as the beleaguered central power of Austria -Hungary tries to initiate peace talks on September 14, 1918, Woodrow quickly rejects them. In the president's mind, there's nothing to discuss. He's already made the terms clear. Austria -Hungary can get back in touch when they want to agree to his 14 points. But is it wise to take such a hard stance on these points, especially when his points are well -meaning but vague? After all, who decides what a quote -unquote impartial adjustment of colonial claims looks like? Who defines self -determination and other such terms? Those questions aren't important to Woodrow. As America enters the Meuse -Argonne campaign, its largest battle to date, one that will send tens of thousands of young doughboys to their graves, Woodrow wants their blood sacrifice to mean something. This war must be, to borrow a phrase recently coined by English author H .G. Wells, the war to end all wars. Thus, the idealistic president is ready to pitch his 14 points to everyone, including the American people.
The Charlie Kirk Show
A highlight from The World's Oldest Christian Country in Peril with Ambassador Sam Brownback and Rep. Andy Biggs
"We get it. You're busy. You don't have time to waste on the mainstream media. That's why Salem News Channel is here. We have hosts worth watching, actually discussing the topics that matter. Andrew Wilkow, Dinesh D 'Souza, Brandon Tatum, and more. Open debate and free speech you won't find anywhere else. We're not like the other guys. We're Salem News Channel. Watch any time on any screen for free 24 -7 at snc .tv and on local now channel 525. Hey everybody to end the Charlie Kirk show. Ambassador Brownback joins us about the terrible things happening in Armenia and Azerbaijan. Andy Biggs joins us for the latest from the front lines of Congress and also did Eric Adams fly too close to the sun, his fundraising chief rated by the FBI. Email us as always freedom at charliekirk .com. Become a member at charliekirk .com and click on the members tab. That's charliekirk .com and click on the members tab. As always, you can email us freedom at charliekirk .com. That is freedom at charliekirk .com and get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa .com. That is tpusa .com. Buckle up everybody. Here we go. Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campuses. I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. That's why we are here. Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at andrewandtodd .com. Joining us now is Ambassador Sam Brownback, former U .S. ambassador at large for international religious freedom. Ambassador, thank you for taking the time. The oldest Christian country in the world, Armenia, is under attack. Walk us through what's happening in Armenia right now. Well, it's basically a continuation of what Turkey tried to do to him 100 years ago. Turkey had a genocide of Armenia. It was a million Christians killed 100 years ago. Hitler famously said, who remembers the Armenians before his own genocide that he did on the Jewish people? And you see in Erdogan, the head of Turkey, pushing, prodding, allowing, enabling Azerbaijan to take over and kick out 120 ,000 Christians in Nagorno -Karabakh, which had been a Armenian settlement within Azerbaijan, and now threatening Armenia, I mean Azerbaijan is, with the backing of Turkey, to attack Armenia proper. That's what's taking place and nobody's talking about it. That's what's really discouraging about this. Yeah, so I don't understand, I mean, here we have 125 ,000 Christians that are being forcibly moved, is that right? Yes. Yeah, first of all, where's the faith community on this? I haven't heard a lot of the major Christian leaders, and God bless you for speaking out about it. What's going on? I think people get confused or they get back and forth saying, well, it's Armenia's side, it's Azerbaijan's side, it just kind of goes back and forth. Azerbaijan has played this very well on top of it. They have built a good relationship with Israel of sorts. Now, recently they didn't vote to condemn Hamas, so hopefully that's going to break that alliance some, but Azerbaijan has gotten weaponry from the United States. It's been helpful for us against Iran, but now with Turkey's backing, they're really going at these Armenian Christians and we're just not doing anything. I think most people just get kind of befuddled, well, it's a he said, she said, I'm not sure which way this is going. What has happened is 120 ,000 Armenian Christians who have lived in the same place their ancestors have for 2 ,000 years have been run out of Nagorno -Karabakh, and now they're concerned about Armenia proper being attacked by Azerbaijan. Well, yeah, talk more just about the focus of our, so we're super concerned as a country, I guess about Russia and Ukraine, for good reason Israel and the Gaza thing gets a lot of attention, but this has just been so de -emphasized and just talk more to our audience about Armenia, a Christian country, the oldest Christian country in the world, and there was a genocide of the Armenian people, but Turkey, a member of NATO, did the genocide and then it gets covered up in the western world. Talk about that. Well, this is at the end of World War I, about 1915, there's the Armenian genocide, as I mentioned earlier, about a million, could be a million and a half, Armenian Christians were just killed by the Ottoman, the falling of the Ottoman Empire, and it was just kind of, not anybody paid much attention to it. Armenia is a small Christian country that's kind of right there in the Middle East, it's an ancient Christian population, and it just gets overlooked, and then for a long period of time, Charlie, here was an issue, was their defender was Russia. Russia has defended Armenia for a long period of time, and so I think the West kind of looked at it and said, well okay, that's what the Russians are doing there, and the Armenians were fine with it, it was really a marriage of necessity that they were in that region, but recently Armenia has started to go more democratic as an open society and wanting to embrace the West. Well, as soon as you do anything like that, the Russians shoot you. They don't want anything to do with democracy, they don't want anything to do with an open society, even if it's another Christian nation, and that's really put Armenia in this situation where they're kind of swimming between two boats. They've left Russia, but the West hasn't picked them up yet, and I think that's part of the reason why you haven't seen a lot of Christian communities talking about it. Yeah, that's a good explanation, but for example, on social media there's massive uproar about the plight of the Muslims and this nonsense about Israeli genocide on Gaza, all a bunch of trash, that none of that stuff is true, and there's no sympathy at all for Christians, like nobody cares at all whatsoever. Why do you think there's so much Christian hatred? I wish I knew the answer to that one, and you see there's more persecution of Christians today in the world than any time in the history of Christendom, never been more, and it's as if the world says, you know, the Christians are the largest faith community out there, you guys are big enough to take care of yourselves, or you did this to other people in the past, you're getting it now. I don't know which, or if it's both, or what the case of it is, but you've just got large -scale Christian persecution taking place. I just saw another report today of Christians being killed in Nigeria. You're seeing the Catholic community being thrown out of Nicaragua, some of their institutions by Ortega. The Chinese are at war with all faiths, Christians included, and I don't know why, but it's up to us to stand up for it, and not to be embarrassed about standing up for Christians around the world that are being persecuted. It seems like a lot of times people are kind of, well, I don't want to speak out about it, and we have to. These are key brothers and sisters that have been persecuted, locked up, killed in various places around the world. Ambassador, any other aspects to this issue you want to make sure our audience is aware of, or anything you'd like to plug, that are action items for our audience? Yeah, they can go on a website, 120 ,000reasons .org, 120 ,000, that's the number of Christians that got run out of Nagorakarabagh, 120 ,000reasons .org for more information, and one thing they really can do is push their members of Congress not to sell weaponry to Azerbaijan, push the Biden administration not to sell weaponry to Azerbaijan, that we've been supplying weapons to them, and that's got to cease, and we need to be supplying help to Armenia. So I'm just logistically curious, it just came to me, so how and what period of time did they move these Christians out of this region, and how far did they travel? They went down this place called the Lachin Corridor, and it's about 22 miles, and this happened in a period of about 10 days. So I'm just really curious, so in 10 days 120 ,000 people moved. Why is it that people can't leave northern Gaza for an Israeli invasion, and the UN calls that a humanitarian crisis? Egypt won't let them move.
Mark Levin
PJ Media: Everything You Need to Know About the Israeli Occupation
"No anti -Semitic weapons in their bodies. Hamas Jihadists would all open restaurants and shops and peace would dawn upon the region. Not to be outdone, there was Omar, of course. Now that we know the occupation is systemic apartheid or a prison. Rashid Taleb, family newly from Palestine, called. I grieve the Palestinian -Israeli lives lost today and every day. I'm determined as ever for justice, blah, blah, blah. The path to the future must include lifting the blockade, ending the occupation, dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, you know, open prison, they call it. By the beginning of the 20th century. Ready? Earlier than that. He says, if Israel is occupying Palestinian land, can you please explain the basis in international law for Palestinian ownership of this land? They all likely assumed that there was a previous Palestinian state and that the Israelis occupied and destroyed. But in reality, there has never been a Palestinian state of any kind ever at any point in world history. There's been a region known as Palestine since 134 AD when the Romans applied the name to the land that had previously been known as Judea. That is, the land of the Jews. In fact, the Jews used to be called the Palestinians, but Arafat stole that. Palestine was akin to Staten Island. It was only the name of a region, never of a people or a nation. By the beginning of the 20th century the Ottoman Empire had sovereignty over the territory that is now Israel and supposedly occupied land as well. The Ottoman Empire was, however, known by this time as the Sick Man of Europe. In
The Eric Metaxas Show
A highlight from Eric Metaxas
"Welcome to The Eric Mataxas Show. It's a nutritious smoothie of creamy, fresh yogurt, vanilla, protein powder and a mushy banana for your mind. Drink it all down. It's nummy. I want vanilla. I want vanilla. Here comes Eric Mataxas. Hey there, folks, welcome to Tuesday. Chris, it's Tuesday. Happy Tuesday. Welcome back. I still I still have my tan from Greece. Today, I promised that I would tell about my adventures in Greece. We have time for that. Yeah, I think we do. I mean, depending on how long I think, I think we're going to get John's Mirack in our two again today. We did that yesterday, and I think we'll try to get him in our two. But I just wanted to tell the story. Of being in Greece, because it's been a couple of years since I've been there. And anybody I anybody who's read my book Fish Out of Water knows my connection to Greece and knows that my dad came over from Greece in 1955 and my whole lifetime. But especially when I was a kid, he would just regale me with stories of growing up in Cefalonia. And in case people don't know, just as I recommend people taking the Queen Mary to to England. By the way, I forgot to say this. You can also take the Queen Mary to from England to New York. And in many ways, that might be even better because you get twenty five hour days every day. I think I said this yesterday that is there a. I mean, that seems that seems strange as a time. Sounds like time travel. It is time travel. But when you go over there every day at noon, the ship's captain comes on and says it's noon, you know, but we're moving the clock forward. It is now ship's time one p .m. and everybody like blasts off to lunch because it's already one p .m. So you lose an hour every day as you go over. Not every day. I should say it's a five, six hours, six, five hours. So one day in the middle of your journey, you don't lose an hour. But it's a bizarre thing to have these 23 hour days. So I'm recommending that people well, I'm recommending that people do. They didn't pay me to say this. I just think it was so delightful, so old school. You get dressed up every night. But coming back, I want to I want to do the coming back thing because you get twenty five hour days every day. They move, you know, at noon. It becomes 11 a .m. Kind of cool, kind of cool to get an extra hour. But anyway, so. I was saying, just as I recommend taking the Queen Mary to its canard, you have to go to canard dot com CUNARD dot com. But just as I recommend that and I will be doing it again, I people recommend visit Cephalonia because the island that we always go to in Greece, which I wrote about in my book, Fish Out of Water Cephalonia or Cephalonia, I say Cephalonia, which is kind of the old fashioned anglicized version that I grew up with Cephalonia. But the Greeks say Cephalonia. And so now a lot of people say Cephalonia with a K. But that's where we go when we go to Greece. And it's been a few years. And it is an absolutely, absolutely magical island. And when you think of Greek islands, you think of these kind of like these, you know, these travel posters of this whitewashed walls and, you know, blue and white, whatever Cephalonia is nothing like that. Cephalonia is not in the Aegean, which is between Greece and Turkey. It is off of the west coast of Greece. So it's dramatically different. The Heptanesa, the seven islands in the Ionian Sea off of the west coast of Greece have have a markedly different flavor than the Aegean Islands. And many Americans don't know about them. That's one of the fun things about going to Cephalonia is that you don't see American tourists, you see British tourists, German, Italian, whatever. When you're at the beach, you hear all these different accents and voices and stuff. It's delightful. But the Ionian Islands, anybody knows their history. Greece was under the Ottoman Empire for for the better part of four centuries. That's the Turks. Cephalonia was not. Cephalonia was under the Venetian Empire. And of course, of course, the Venetian Empire was about fifteen hundred to like, I think, seventeen ninety seven. So almost 300 years Cephalonia was under Venetian rule. And then the British came in for a good part of the 19th century. So it has a very British strong British influence. And it is just nothing like when you think of a Greek island. Cephalonia is very lush, very green. And that's where we go, basically. And it's so beautiful. People think I'm exaggerating. So I recommend if you go there yourself, you'll see. You'll see I'm not exaggerating. It's unbelievably beautiful. And you almost don't know where to begin. They have one. They have a number of the most beautiful beaches I've ever seen in my life. One of them is world famous. If you look it up, you'll see I'm not making this up. It's called Mirtos, M -Y -R -T -O -S. Mirtos Beach is one of the greatest beaches in the world. And photo even the photos don't do it just you just can't do it justice. But it's mind blowingly beautiful. But there are a number of gorgeous beaches there. But it's not about the beaches. There is tremendous history that's there. And I've talked on this program about the tomb of Odysseus, basically Mycenaean civilization, which is we're talking like 1600 B .C. to around 1100 B .C. is the Mycenaean era. And I know I've talked about it on this program before. But Heinrich Schliemann was this German madman who was convinced that the world of Homer existed. So I got to say this, just just I got to explain this so people understand.
The Eric Metaxas Show
John Zmirak Reflects on the Significance of the British Monarchy
"To John S mirak. Oh my goodness. John, this weekend. King Charles the third was officially crowned all very ritualistic. I spoke at length to Naomi wolf about it in our one. Do you have any observations on that event? Yeah, I'm really, really glad the British monarchy survives. Even though it doesn't wield any power, even though I'm a half Irish. And I'm almost genetic, you know, my genes scream at the British monarchy, the way yours do at the Ottoman Empire, Eric. Being Greek. But as an American, I need to recognize that our freedoms are ordered liberty, come from no place else, but England. That the peculiar history of the English monarchy, and its relationship to the English parliament and the English people. The back and forth battle for power between the king, the parliament and the people, has produced the freest society in the history of the world. And it's interesting that our independence was a rebellion against Great Britain. Great Britain was the freest society on earth at the time. We wanted more. But the point is we weren't rebelling against the Ottoman Empire or the Mongol conic cons. We were rebelling against a pretty darn good monarchy that for hundreds of years had been subjecting the king's powers to the power of parliament. Starting in the 1300s with the Magna Carta, the English monarchs had century John. I'm sorry. Thank you. 13th century. With the Magna Carta, the English monarchs had to ask the parliament for taxes. The power of the purse was in the hands of the nobility and then of the common people.
History That Doesn't Suck
"ottoman empire" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Origin, soon to cross the Mediterranean to join the war in Europe. Hence, it's the perfect target. At 6 O 8 a.m., the gobbins 6 inch guns opened fire on feeling Bill. Shells damaged the railway station. They blow up a magazine. Other buildings around the harbor suffer damage as well, while French coastal batteries answer in kind. The action is only ten minutes and fails to strike French troops or transports, but the admiral is satisfied. This will do for now. The mighty battle cruiser steams off to rendezvous with the one other German warship in the Mediterranean. A light cruiser called the SMS breslau, which just hit the Algerian port city of bone. Yes, this was a coordinated attack. All the admiral's idea. The two German ships are now steaming east to the Italian island of Sicily. That's about 500 miles, though. So as we travel, let me give you the full details on admiral Wilhelm souchon situation. At two 35 a.m. this morning, Berlin instructed him to head to the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. See, two days ago, on August 2nd, the German and Ottoman Empire signed a secret treaty. But it's only a defensive alliance against Russia and the Ottomans aren't rushing into war. Thus, Berlin hopes that the protective presence of the all powerful SMS goeben in Constantinople's waters might encourage their new ally to take action. But Wilhelm was already so close to French North Africa that he decided to carry out his pre planned attack there first. With that done, he's ready to leave this two vessel squadron to the Ottoman capital. They'll need to refuel for this long voyage, hence the stop at Sicily, but additionally, the admiral must also be mindful of another new challenge. Now that war has broken out. Enemy vessels. It's now ten 34 a.m.. The goblins crew spice two gray masses on the distant horizon. It soon clear that their British battlecruisers. The indomitable and indefatigable. Damn it. Admiral wonders if his nation is at war with Britain yet. Well, better safe than sorry. To battle stations. The British and German ships charge right at each other. They're soon passing, but neither fires. Nor salutes. Then the two powerful British warships turn about. Do they intend to strike? No. Britain's first lord of the admiralty Winston Churchill has ordered these two bowel cruisers to shadow the govern. But the German admiral doesn't know that, and he isn't about to risk his crew, especially as the HMS Dublin joins the chase. Wilhelm pushes his stokers to fire the goblins already imperfect boilers as hotly as they can for hours on end. Incredibly, they managed to outrun pursuing British and lose them in the mist that night. The next morning, August 5th the goeben makes it to Sicily's port city of Messina. But Wilhelm receives a cult greeting. Though part of the triple alliance with Germany, Italy has cited German aggression and declared neutrality. Therefore, this is no longer a friendly port. Officials give the 50 something admiral 24 hours to depart. He loads as much desperately needed coal as possible, but it's not enough. He arranges for a coal carrying cargo ship, a Collier, to meet the breslau somewhere at sea. It's now 11 a.m., August 6th. Soon departing Sicily, the admiral receives a message from the German naval staff. At present time, your call Constantinople, not yet possible for various reasons. Further word from Berlin also informs him that the austro-hungarian navy won't help yet either. Meanwhile, Britain has declared war. In other words, Wilhelm's friendless heartless and low on fuel in a hostile sea. Seeing no other options, the admiral decides to lead his two vessel squadron to the Ottoman capital anyway. He'll just hope the unwelcoming situation changes before he arrives. Nearly the moment the German vessels enter international waters. Britain's light cruiser for HMS Gloucester is on the tail. Day gives weight at night and for a while, four British armored cruisers joined the hunt, but back off before the sun rises on August 8th. Not the gloss itself, and at one 35 p.m., one of her 6 inch guns fires at the breslin. The German vessel answers in kind to salvos. This it seems is enough. The Gloucester backs off. Confusion overtakes the British navy in the Mediterranean for 24 hours, as war with Austria Hungary becomes official. Meanwhile, the German vessels steam into the Aegean, where, on August 9th, they gratefully meet with the Collier and take on coal. But still, they must make it to Constantinople. They're picking up British radio signals. That means they're pursuing hunting foe isn't far behind. It's now the afternoon of August 10th. The goeben and breslau maintain 18 knots as a steam into the dardanelles. The German crew takes note of the Ottoman Empire's Crescent bearing banners fluttering above the historic forts on either side of the Europe and Asia dividing straight. But the Germans still don't know what's going on diplomatically. Are they welcome here? The German warships come to a stop. They and the Ottoman forts train their guns on one another. Two Ottoman destroyers are soon steaming toward them. The admiral wonders will he and his men die here? Will they be turned away to meet their debts by British guns? It's neither. The two Ottoman vessels signal that they are here to escort the Germans through the mine laden strait. Relief washes over the German crews. Perhaps they have friends in Constantinople, after all.
History That Doesn't Suck
"ottoman empire" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"Origin, soon to cross the Mediterranean to join the war in Europe. Hence, it's the perfect target. At 6 O 8 a.m., the gobbins 6 inch guns opened fire on feeling Bill. Shells damaged the railway station. They blow up a magazine. Other buildings around the harbor suffer damage as well, while French coastal batteries answer in kind. The action is only ten minutes and fails to strike French troops or transports, but the admiral is satisfied. This will do for now. The mighty battle cruiser steams off to rendezvous with the one other German warship in the Mediterranean. A light cruiser called the SMS breslau, which just hit the Algerian port city of bone. Yes, this was a coordinated attack. All the admiral's idea. The two German ships are now steaming east to the Italian island of Sicily. That's about 500 miles, though. So as we travel, let me give you the full details on admiral Wilhelm souchon situation. At two 35 a.m. this morning, Berlin instructed him to head to the Ottoman capital of Constantinople. See, two days ago, on August 2nd, the German and Ottoman Empire signed a secret treaty. But it's only a defensive alliance against Russia and the Ottomans aren't rushing into war. Thus, Berlin hopes that the protective presence of the all powerful SMS goeben in Constantinople's waters might encourage their new ally to take action. But Wilhelm was already so close to French North Africa that he decided to carry out his pre planned attack there first. With that done, he's ready to leave this two vessel squadron to the Ottoman capital. They'll need to refuel for this long voyage, hence the stop at Sicily, but additionally, the admiral must also be mindful of another new challenge. Now that war has broken out. Enemy vessels. It's now ten 34 a.m.. The goblins crew spice two gray masses on the distant horizon. It soon clear that their British battlecruisers. The indomitable and indefatigable. Damn it. Admiral wonders if his nation is at war with Britain yet. Well, better safe than sorry. To battle stations. The British and German ships charge right at each other. They're soon passing, but neither fires. Nor salutes. Then the two powerful British warships turn about. Do they intend to strike? No. Britain's first lord of the admiralty Winston Churchill has ordered these two bowel cruisers to shadow the govern. But the German admiral doesn't know that, and he isn't about to risk his crew, especially as the HMS Dublin joins the chase. Wilhelm pushes his stokers to fire the goblins already imperfect boilers as hotly as they can for hours on end. Incredibly, they managed to outrun pursuing British and lose them in the mist that night. The next morning, August 5th the goeben makes it to Sicily's port city of Messina. But Wilhelm receives a cult greeting. Though part of the triple alliance with Germany, Italy has cited German aggression and declared neutrality. Therefore, this is no longer a friendly port. Officials give the 50 something admiral 24 hours to depart. He loads as much desperately needed coal as possible, but it's not enough. He arranges for a coal carrying cargo ship, a Collier, to meet the breslau somewhere at sea. It's now 11 a.m., August 6th. Soon departing Sicily, the admiral receives a message from the German naval staff. At present time, your call Constantinople, not yet possible for various reasons. Further word from Berlin also informs him that the austro-hungarian navy won't help yet either. Meanwhile, Britain has declared war. In other words, Wilhelm's friendless heartless and low on fuel in a hostile sea. Seeing no other options, the admiral decides to lead his two vessel squadron to the Ottoman capital anyway. He'll just hope the unwelcoming situation changes before he arrives. Nearly the moment the German vessels enter international waters. Britain's light cruiser for HMS Gloucester is on the tail. Day gives weight at night and for a while, four British armored cruisers joined the hunt, but back off before the sun rises on August 8th. Not the gloss itself, and at one 35 p.m., one of her 6 inch guns fires at the breslin. The German vessel answers in kind to salvos. This it seems is enough. The Gloucester backs off. Confusion overtakes the British navy in the Mediterranean for 24 hours, as war with Austria Hungary becomes official. Meanwhile, the German vessels steam into the Aegean, where, on August 9th, they gratefully meet with the Collier and take on coal. But still, they must make it to Constantinople. They're picking up British radio signals. That means they're pursuing hunting foe isn't far behind. It's now the afternoon of August 10th. The goeben and breslau maintain 18 knots as a steam into the dardanelles. The German crew takes note of the Ottoman Empire's Crescent bearing banners fluttering above the historic forts on either side of the Europe and Asia dividing straight. But the Germans still don't know what's going on diplomatically. Are they welcome here? The German warships come to a stop. They and the Ottoman forts train their guns on one another. Two Ottoman destroyers are soon steaming toward them. The admiral wonders will he and his men die here? Will they be turned away to meet their debts by British guns? It's neither. The two Ottoman vessels signal that they are here to escort the Germans through the mine laden strait. Relief washes over the German crews. Perhaps they have friends in Constantinople, after all.
The Mad Mamluks
"ottoman empire" Discussed on The Mad Mamluks
"Because the idea of autonomy. So it wasn't something that they had to force down a rule on everybody. Exactly. As long as you were loyal to the state, but the point I'm making is about locality. People were very local in the imagination. The shift in regard to thinking global was the printed press. But now you have newspapers, you're reading about somebody in India. You're reading this about somebody in Cairo. You're reading about prior to that imagination. You knew that Cairo existed. But what's happening in day to today life in Cairo, somebody in Istanbul didn't care. So Istanbul in some way was an enclave. And this is why you can see Ottoman studies been very Istanbul centered when they're talking about the Sultanate. But the machinery of empire is a series of negotiations. So a way of understanding this, Star Wars, Game of Thrones, one piece in manga, Naruto world building, people love worldbuilding, right? And when you watch these shows, you understand the complexity of how world Biden operates. People don't understand that's how the Ottoman Empire is. It's a giant world, and if you looked at it in that context, game of France is interesting in that sense, when we watch in turkey, it's like clean version. So it's a huge chessboard. That's right. It's a huge chess board. So just coming back to the original for previous question. So when were the genes sort of disbanded? 1826. And members that other genes are involved with the Young Turks at all? No. So the Young Turks emerge in 1890 and so forth. The janitors are spending 1826 because they were seen as an obstacle for military reformation. Now, the reason why the janissaries are not reforming is because they were turning around and saying, listen, we know what the sultan is trying to do. He's trying to remove us on power because we put him in office in power. So we're not going anywhere. So we'll talk about this saying listen, if we don't do it, generously question now, we're going to get blitzed by the European. So one of the ways that the Ottomans were fighting wars is usually it would be a local, let's just say they invaded Cairo. It would be the army's in Cairo that would defend Cairo, and it enabling areas would send troops into field up the fort. And then maybe Istanbul said extra troops to help them. That's a look at a nature of the empire, whereas the British and the French didn't have to do that. They had a very different way of warfare, so then the Ottomans had to change the army quick by saying we need to learn drills. We need to machines. So even like the feds, right? The second brings to pheasant. Imagine you're going to war with a giant turbine, and people pop you off just like that. So they're saying, listen, we need to change the uniform. People go, what are you talking about? So you have these type of complexities in the empire that then he has to force it by brute force and becomes exceptionally unpopular for doing it because in Islam we don't like the idea of a ruler being so aggressive. He needed money for his army, so he started confiscating taxing people and so forth by say, listen, we need money. So people go down, you can't do that.
The Mad Mamluks
"ottoman empire" Discussed on The Mad Mamluks
"The let's look at Pakistan and turkey with military crews always taking place. We even leaders from power, right? Yeah. So this is not new. Let's look at Jordan with a military establishment of Czechoslovak occasions who are predicting the rollout. We still have these types of mechanisms in many countries around the world that can seat and unseat the ruler in that sense. And so in the Ottoman Empire, this is the head now in 1826 Mahmoud the second. He was a reform his army created a new army because the janissaries as a militia force in the military force, not only are dangerous in regards to being able to choose an unusual Khalifa. But also they are unable to now deal with the wars that are taking place in the European world. Because the intriguing thing about Europe is, when the Ottomans are in peacetime, they're not fighting. The Europeans are war of each other, and the ornaments are looking at them and say, look at these crazy guys. They fight each other and we're in peacetime. But we call this a paradox of war. Meaning what, the more you fight, the better you skilled you become a fighting. Do you understand experience? Exactly. So the Europeans are finding each other improving and creating new weapons. What do you organize on peacetime? How many we're not like those become lazy. But you fall behind. So this is strange paradox you have that on the one hand so this is why I still some people argue that modern western states need to continuously create wars of facilitate wars to test their weaponry. So you would say they are if you could give them advice again retroactively. That they should have not entered into a period of peace that they should have constantly been pushing their borders and but you know the problem with that the reason why you need to have moments of peace time is to consolidate Islam in people. Yeah. So this is the thing. So when you have a population library on that, what do you mean consolidation? Because I was thinking like maybe this may be the wisdom behind you how to cut up like that you continue going forth because otherwise you get stagnant. It could be. I really don't know, but the idea is you keep expanding expanding expanding. So where's the slam being taught? Yeah. And you keep needing people to keep fighting, right?
History That Doesn't Suck
"ottoman empire" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"The European map has changed since the Congress of Vienna. Again, historians debate what to make of the concert of Europe at this point. The continent has seen a few wars now as we know, but it's still avoided falling into another large scale total war, like the Napoleonic Wars. Well, you can decide what you think of the concert as we assess the changes to Europe's map and its shifts in power. Starting on the Italian Peninsula, we now have a united Italy. I noted earlier that the kingdom of Sardinia's name changed to Italy, which happened in 1861, but the newly named and growing kingdom still had more to annex back then. It conquered the last defiant holdout, the Papal States, in 1870, and this year, 1871, Italy makes unification official by naming Rome its capital. That's right. German unification and Italian unification both happen within months of each other, and in a similar fashion. With one powerful state exerting its authority over neighbors of the same ethnicity, and a spoonful of nationalism helps the medicine go down. Unified Italy is strong enough to make the great powers team, but only as a benchwarmer. It's literally referred to as and I quote, the least of the great powers. To continue that analogy, Germany isn't only getting game time. It's a starter. With a population of over 40 million, it's supersedes both Austria and France's power. But while Italy and Germany are growing stronger, the off screen empire is taking a hit. In the wake of its 1866 loss to Prussia, and the growing influence of nationalism, the Austrian crown has to compromise with its Hungarian subjects by giving them a full seat at the table. In 1860 7s Oz gleich, the empire reorganizes as the austro-hungarian empire. Ah, there's the name we heard at the opening of this episode. And please note, you may still hear me say Austrian Empire as a shorthand on occasion. Nationalism continues to hit the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans territory too. Across this southeast European Peninsula, the sultan's subjects of various nationalities are pushing for independence or greater autonomy. Hence the Ottoman Empire's nickname, the sick man of Europe. So Europe seen war and its map has changed since the Congress of Vienna. Yet again, none of these wars resulted in a continent wide war. All of those we've discussed and those we haven't have been short regional conflicts. We can call this a win for the clearly flexible concert of Europe. Nor has everything changed, after all, even with Prussia or now Germany climbing the great power rankings, those listed among the top 5 haven't changed. Sorry, adley, you're just not quite there. Well, I'll let you keep molling on the concert of Europe's success or failure. But now that we have a handle on Europe's altered map and balance of power, let's return to the man who, more than any other individual, has been pulling the continent's strings and will continue to do so for another two decades. Otto von Bismarck. The iron Chancellor knows that humiliated, defeated, territory losing France is out for German blood. But that's fine. See, Otto is a master, if not the master of what is called real politique, which is a philosophy that holds raw power and real world capabilities, not ideology, philosophy, ethics, or other abstracts, are what matter most in politics and foreign affairs. Hence, for auto, France's enmity is only a problem if its new third Republican government is strong enough to do something about it. And it isn't. As long as he can keep France isolated, that is. So that's just what he sets out to do. The iron Chancellor is now a man of peace. Germany is satiated as auto tells the British ambassador in 1871. No great power need worry that powerful Germany will continue conquering. He has no interest in bringing Europe's remaining Germanic peoples under the German tricolor. The Austrians are better off in their empire. This is a unified Klein Dutch, not gross Dutch. Huh. Well, that alone calms the concerns of European powers not called France, but still. What if France makes allies? The iron Chancellor can't have that, so he proceeds to form an alliance system that leaves France friendless. Leaning into their shared vision of conservative monarchy, auto convinces the austro-hungarian emperor and Russian Tsar to align with the German Kaiser in 1873. This is known as the league of the three emperors. But it doesn't hold more than a few years. Not with the Ottoman Empire continuing to fall apart in the Balkans. Bulgarians Romanians and Serbs are rebelling and Russia just can't help seeing another opportunity to indulge its pan Slavic vision. Meanwhile, Austria, unable to exert power over Central Europe's Germanic peoples now that imperial Germany exists is even more interested in growing within the Balkans as the Ottomans hold their ebbs. The Russo Turkish war of 1877 to 78 ends of the league. That war also brings some big changes that factor into our story. For instance, we have newly independent Balkan nations, including the kingdom of Serbia. And though the Ottomans still maintain de facto rule, Austria takes over administrating the provinces of, you guessed it, Bosnia and Herzegovina picking up the pieces the next year in 1879, the iron Chancellor aligns Germany with just the austro-hungarian empire and the dual alliance. This is significant. As a full on military alliance, they will both go to war should their upset eastern neighbor Russia attack one of them, and will likewise stay neutral if another great power. Like vengeance seeking France attacks. In other words, the flexibility of a non aligned Europe just diminished. It diminishes a touch more in 1882 as the two German rulers add unified Italy to make this the triple alliance. But by this point, Otto von Bismarck can't confine his concerns entirely to Europe. The second industrial revolution is fueling a global economic revolution that's both facilitating and encouraging the industrial powers of the world, mostly European powers plus the United States and Japan to expand their imperial holdings. This late 19th century round of global empire building is often known as new imperialism, and in this context, European powers are particularly interested in the raw materials of Africa. Now the Chancellor himself isn't a fan of empire building outside of Europe, but increasingly it seems peace in Europe means looking beyond the continent. Besides, other Germans want their hike to get in on the action. So the aging balding iron Chancellor invites first and second rate empires alike to send representatives to Berlin with hopes that they can peacefully hash out their economic and imperial interests in a particularly disputed area. West Africa and the Congo. It's November 15th, 1884.
History That Doesn't Suck
"ottoman empire" Discussed on History That Doesn't Suck
"The European map has changed since the Congress of Vienna. Again, historians debate what to make of the concert of Europe at this point. The continent has seen a few wars now as we know, but it's still avoided falling into another large scale total war, like the Napoleonic Wars. Well, you can decide what you think of the concert as we assess the changes to Europe's map and its shifts in power. Starting on the Italian Peninsula, we now have a united Italy. I noted earlier that the kingdom of Sardinia's name changed to Italy, which happened in 1861, but the newly named and growing kingdom still had more to annex back then. It conquered the last defiant holdout, the Papal States, in 1870, and this year, 1871, Italy makes unification official by naming Rome its capital. That's right. German unification and Italian unification both happen within months of each other, and in a similar fashion. With one powerful state exerting its authority over neighbors of the same ethnicity, and a spoonful of nationalism helps the medicine go down. Unified Italy is strong enough to make the great powers team, but only as a benchwarmer. It's literally referred to as and I quote, the least of the great powers. To continue that analogy, Germany isn't only getting game time. It's a starter. With a population of over 40 million, it's supersedes both Austria and France's power. But while Italy and Germany are growing stronger, the off screen empire is taking a hit. In the wake of its 1866 loss to Prussia, and the growing influence of nationalism, the Austrian crown has to compromise with its Hungarian subjects by giving them a full seat at the table. In 1860 7s Oz gleich, the empire reorganizes as the austro-hungarian empire. Ah, there's the name we heard at the opening of this episode. And please note, you may still hear me say Austrian Empire as a shorthand on occasion. Nationalism continues to hit the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans territory too. Across this southeast European Peninsula, the sultan's subjects of various nationalities are pushing for independence or greater autonomy. Hence the Ottoman Empire's nickname, the sick man of Europe. So Europe seen war and its map has changed since the Congress of Vienna. Yet again, none of these wars resulted in a continent wide war. All of those we've discussed and those we haven't have been short regional conflicts. We can call this a win for the clearly flexible concert of Europe. Nor has everything changed, after all, even with Prussia or now Germany climbing the great power rankings, those listed among the top 5 haven't changed. Sorry, adley, you're just not quite there. Well, I'll let you keep molling on the concert of Europe's success or failure. But now that we have a handle on Europe's altered map and balance of power, let's return to the man who, more than any other individual, has been pulling the continent's strings and will continue to do so for another two decades. Otto von Bismarck. The iron Chancellor knows that humiliated, defeated, territory losing France is out for German blood. But that's fine. See, Otto is a master, if not the master of what is called real politique, which is a philosophy that holds raw power and real world capabilities, not ideology, philosophy, ethics, or other abstracts, are what matter most in politics and foreign affairs. Hence, for auto, France's enmity is only a problem if its new third Republican government is strong enough to do something about it. And it isn't. As long as he can keep France isolated, that is. So that's just what he sets out to do. The iron Chancellor is now a man of peace. Germany is satiated as auto tells the British ambassador in 1871. No great power need worry that powerful Germany will continue conquering. He has no interest in bringing Europe's remaining Germanic peoples under the German tricolor. The Austrians are better off in their empire. This is a unified Klein Dutch, not gross Dutch. Huh. Well, that alone calms the concerns of European powers not called France, but still. What if France makes allies? The iron Chancellor can't have that, so he proceeds to form an alliance system that leaves France friendless. Leaning into their shared vision of conservative monarchy, auto convinces the austro-hungarian emperor and Russian Tsar to align with the German Kaiser in 1873. This is known as the league of the three emperors. But it doesn't hold more than a few years. Not with the Ottoman Empire continuing to fall apart in the Balkans. Bulgarians Romanians and Serbs are rebelling and Russia just can't help seeing another opportunity to indulge its pan Slavic vision. Meanwhile, Austria, unable to exert power over Central Europe's Germanic peoples now that imperial Germany exists is even more interested in growing within the Balkans as the Ottomans hold their ebbs. The Russo Turkish war of 1877 to 78 ends of the league. That war also brings some big changes that factor into our story. For instance, we have newly independent Balkan nations, including the kingdom of Serbia. And though the Ottomans still maintain de facto rule, Austria takes over administrating the provinces of, you guessed it, Bosnia and Herzegovina picking up the pieces the next year in 1879, the iron Chancellor aligns Germany with just the austro-hungarian empire and the dual alliance. This is significant. As a full on military alliance, they will both go to war should their upset eastern neighbor Russia attack one of them, and will likewise stay neutral if another great power. Like vengeance seeking France attacks. In other words, the flexibility of a non aligned Europe just diminished. It diminishes a touch more in 1882 as the two German rulers add unified Italy to make this the triple alliance. But by this point, Otto von Bismarck can't confine his concerns entirely to Europe. The second industrial revolution is fueling a global economic revolution that's both facilitating and encouraging the industrial powers of the world, mostly European powers plus the United States and Japan to expand their imperial holdings. This late 19th century round of global empire building is often known as new imperialism, and in this context, European powers are particularly interested in the raw materials of Africa. Now the Chancellor himself isn't a fan of empire building outside of Europe, but increasingly it seems peace in Europe means looking beyond the continent. Besides, other Germans want their hike to get in on the action. So the aging balding iron Chancellor invites first and second rate empires alike to send representatives to Berlin with hopes that they can peacefully hash out their economic and imperial interests in a particularly disputed area. West Africa and the Congo. It's November 15th, 1884.
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"ottoman empire" Discussed on 77WABC Radio
"You tell us about the construction. Not a problem. John. The original church that was here was founded in 1916. It was not a new building. It wasn't built from the ground up John. It was an existing structure that was converted into a Greek church. This particular area that we're standing in right now used to be known in the past as Little Syria because in this particular area there lived a lot of Lebanese and during the Ottoman Empire. Lebanon was part of what they call greater Syria. So here you had a combination of multi ethnic multicultural people who lived in this area. Many Greeks lived here because don't forget. When I first came out of the ship's John they would They would actually land in lower Manhattan up until about 18 92. And then they went to Ellis Island because Ellis Island didn't exist before 18 90 18 92 as a place where immigrants came in. So where we're standing right now. The dividing line was actually Broadway because because east of Broadway was where the wealthy people were were all the all the people in the stock exchange, etcetera. On the on the West side here. John is where all the people all the immigrants who came in lived the Lebanese. They were merchants, basically for fabrics and things of that nature. The Greek salt in that particular time period in the earth in the late 19th century early 20th century, But for the most part, they had restaurants they had They were different pedals. Let's say and things of that nature. So this is what you had, like Delancey Street. Exactly Exactly. So that's what you had here, John. So This was a church also that related to.
Everything Everywhere Daily
The Origin of the Elgin Marbles
"Greece in the early part of the nineteenth century wasn't yet an independent country. It had been under the rule of the ottoman empire since the mid fifteenth century and this was the geopolitical situation in athens in eighteen. O one thomas. Bruce seventh earl of elegant was appointed as the ambassador extraordinary and minister. Plenipotentiary of his britannic majesty to the sublime port of selma third sultan of turkey prior to arriving in the ottoman empire. He asked the british government if they were interested in. Hiring artists can make drawings and take plaster casts of the sculptures at the parthenon. The british government was in no way interested. However even if the government wasn't interested. Thomas bruce still was so using his own funds. He hired a team of artists to document. The artwork found at the parthenon so far all of his plans for documenting. What was at the parthenon. We're perfectly fine. If he had just stuck to this. I probably be doing an episode today about something else. however he didn't didn't just stick to documenting the artwork. He soon began removing whatever sculptures that he could in total he took twenty one full statues fifteen meta panels which are carver. Tabular architectural pieces and a full seventy five meters of the parthenon frieze which decorated the upper interior of the parthenon. All of this marble sculpture was sent them all. To and then to england they became known as the elgin marbles named after the earl of elegant and because they were all made out of marble they are also known as the parthenon marbles. This was all done at the personal expense of the earl. At a cost of seventy four thousand two hundred and forty pounds or what today would be worth five million pounds or about six point eight million dollars.
WABE 90.1 FM
"ottoman empire" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"Is the show for curious cooks and eaters. This week. We're diving into the food and wine of Greece. We've been talking with Diane could Sheila's Who knows more about the subject than probably any living American? Let's go back to her, right. Tell us about that region, al itty and how different Cultures have come to Greece or merged with Greek food. What we see because of that Greece if you think about where it is. Geographically. It's right between The East and the West. And it's always been a crossroads. Um, it's been conquered its conquered. You know, it's Greeks have traveled all over the Mediterranean. They have spread their own food. They've spread wine. All over the Mediterranean. So there's always been this fluid, a team. Um 100 years ago in 1922. There was it was kind of the last throes of the Ottoman Empire, and there was a huge exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey. It was there was a war. It was one of the Probably the most important historical Milestone in the 20th century for Greece, outside of World War two and the Civil War and Essentially the million or so Greeks who had been living in Asia minor For millennia. Immigrated many of them back into Greece and brought with them a much more urban cuisine. Because if you were living in a city like Constantinople, Istanbul or Smyrna, Izmir or you know I valley or other places along the Turkish Asia minor coast. You were privy to the spice routes. You were privy to much more cosmopolitan environment where you were living with, you know, Turks and Armenians and Jews and, you know, kind of everyone. From the eastern Mediterranean, and there was a lot of Really interesting food and So that that fact alone changed Greek cuisine 100 years ago and what had been a very simple Peasant cuisine was suddenly changed. Because of this influx of urban cooks who brought these incredible eggplant dishes with them and spices that you know we're not really used that much in older Greek cooking. Um So you put some dishes that that show us that like, what are some dishes the moussaka up? Hmm. Moussaka. I mean, that was, you know, that's very That's totally urban dish. That's not a peasant dish that you have to have a certain skill to make the Sharm el, which is a French sauce and you know to make this very rich meat sauce, so there was still a lot of historical layers in You know, in the layers of moussaka, um, pastiche. Tell us how you make a great moussaka. Okay? You want a great miss? Like, uh, you want great meat. I usually do a combination of lamb and beef if you can hand chop the chopped meat even better. And you make a very rich sauce. That's Susan with cinnamon and allspice and tomato, of course, and I add a little wine to mine and Um Sometimes a little sugar or a little bit of, um, petty, messy, which is a great molasses. Cool. You know, there's always just I mean, just a pinch just to balance out the flavor. The eggplant. I used to saute it, but I've you know, have long since abandoned that in favor of a lighter version, which is simply baking the eggplant slices in the oven. And then I do go all out on the best caramel, um, using I make the Greek version of it, which calls for a couple of eggs or egg yolks. I put cheese in it. You know, it's a richness, stereotypical French bechamel would be Better. I don't know if it's flour. Yeah, No, it'll be typically butter flour, You make a room and then you whiskey and milk And you just cooking? Yeah, Greek. Maybe there's onion and whatever the Greek version, probably because Greek mothers have to feed their kids eggs. Yeah. You know, you know how often I'm used to. You take my kids to the park and see some Greek grandmother chasing the grand kid around with a spoon and an egg on it. Yeah. Oh, um, anyway, um, yeah, so that I mean to me, and then you know the layers should be. They should be integrated always mix a little bechamel into the sauce, but there should be distinct layers, too. So that's my version of a Great moussaka. But just to hop back for a second on the whole notion of regional cuisine, you know other parts of the country. Crete has a very interesting cuisine, too, because it's incredibly rich agriculturally so and it's it's own island. It's a big island. Yeah. And there have been many books written just about Cretan cuisine. The Ionian Islands on the western coast of Greece have very, very different cuisine because they were governed by the Venetians for about three almost 400 years. They were not Really governed by the Ottomans. So you find dishes that are clearly Italian. I was again I was in freely and there's a lot of Venetian influence in the cuisine because it's kind of the same, almost the same area. There was a dish called Sour, which was a sweet and sour fish dish made with fresh anchovies. We do the same thing, especially in the Ionian called Save our Oh, so he didn't almost the same word. Oh, wow. So it's really interesting to compare cuisines. There are a lot of foods that unite us across the Mediterranean, but Then the other. I think big division in Greek cooking, You know, it's sort of like the island's versus the mainland and on the mainland, there was more of a separating tradition. So you know, the most iconic Greek dish spanakopita spinach pie definitely evolved with the shepherds. It was food that was born out of the need. Of people who were itinerant. And move moving and needed food that they could carry and that kept well. Oh, that's so interesting. It's fascinating, and there were always greens that they can forage. They always had cheese. They always had Some sort of, you know flower that they could make their own filo with and when they moved from the highlands of the lowlands, or vice versa. They always had this. They still do. They have this dome shaped Usually copper. Cover that was essentially the cover of a makeshift oven so they would dig a shallow pit. But they're pipin or their meat or whatever else that we're making over this, seal it with dough, and that was their oven. Over charcoal or over embers or something. But in the islands. There is a different pie tradition because most for the most part, the islands are drier. And there's less wood. So people.
90.3 KAZU
"ottoman empire" Discussed on 90.3 KAZU
"Years later in 16 42, the city finished the lottery toes, a series of buildings just outside the city wall, where visitors mostly from the Ottoman Empire, would wait out there 40 days. Marinovich takes me to the former quarantine cells, which have barred windows overlooking the turquoise water of the Adriatic in which now houses an exhibition on the history of the quarantine. There are displays of old tools that guards used to ensure social distancing polls with spikes on the end of them, and Marinovich shows me one of the earliest forms of contact lists payment insert of the opening the money would fall into the driver through this whole. There were avoiding to touch the money. It's a cashier's desk with a hole to drop money into a drawer for contact list transactions and money was the primary reason behind Dubrovnik's creation of the quarantine. It wanted to maintain economic growth in turbulent times tradition, Marinovich says, continues today I think at that our government is too trying to do the same because we are a country very much dependent on tourism. That's why we never had really strict measures in Croatia wore in Dubrovnik, and that's why Croatia was one of the first European countries to open to vaccinated tourists. It's also why Dubrovnik filled with medieval churches, concert halls and the world's oldest quarantine site has been hard at work, lobbying US airlines like Delta and United to reopen direct flights between the U. S and the Dubrovnik airport. When more tourists begin arriving to this ancient walled city. They can pay a visit to the lottery toes and pretend they're in quarantine and.
Unexplained Mysteries
How Is The Piri Reis Map so Accurate?
"Born around fourteen sixty five in gallipoli. A turkish peninsula across the gene see from greece. Pirie reece's real name was haji. Ahmed mouhidin puree. The word res actually referred to a rank. He acquired later in life. As a captain in the ottoman navy. From a young age. Pirie felt at home on the sea. It only twelve years old. He joined a crew of pirates led by his uncle. Kamal for fourteen years kamala attack christian trading ships in the mediterranean sea with periods side. The islamic ottoman empire was expanding but it wanted to avoid open warfare with italy. Spain and portugal. So it empowered private captains like kamal to do its dirty work period. Uncle taught him how to pilot a ship and navigate. Using the stars together they fought battles and stole plunder. The even rescued jews and muslims fleeing catholic persecution in the spanish peninsula and in fourteen ninety five. The empire officially inducted inducted puree and kamal into the imperial ottoman navy. Kamal died in fifteen ten leaving forty-five-year-old pirie without his captain and mentor freed from obligation. He hung up his pirate boots and turned to his. True passion cartography. He returned to gallipoli and to work on a map that he hoped would capture the whole world on a single page. This daunting task took three to complete period gathered more than twenty different charts created over the preceding two thousand years. One of his sources was an ancient map supposedly drawn from the reign of alexander. The great sometime between three thirty six and three twenty. Three b c e. Many others were drawn by portuguese and arabic explorers to combine all these charts period had to match the contours of each continent's coastlines to each other like fitting together pieces of a puzzle. Even with modern technology. This would be difficult but at the time. The task was nearly
600 WREC
"ottoman empire" Discussed on 600 WREC
"Dave talking about truth? I mean, there are things that for instance, you You can be a climate deny Er as they call it, Um but you you have to accept that there are certain things that are true. Then show you know the temperature is rising, blah, blah, blah. What That means is is different than the fax so when when people on the left? See the fax of of Israel and it being foretold and everything else. How do you dismiss that? Glen first off So many of the people on the left don't believe in facts. And that goes to what I was talking about before about a war on truth, like, for example, I'll tell you a few facts right now and let's see if we can agree on facts. There was never a country known as Palestine. Is that true or false? True, that is true. There was no country ever known as Palestine. There was an area that was part of the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years. That was then part of the British Empire, and when the British left, they said, to the Jews that were there and to the Arabs, they said, We're going to split this thing. It's the 1947 partition plan. We're going to split this thing to you guys accept. You know, you'll take your country you'll take yours by the way. They didn't say it to Palestinians because there were no people known as Palestinians. There were Arabs who lived in that area. Well, the Jew said, yes, The Arab said No. And then the war happened. And then thus Israel was born. Now, if you can't even have this conversation when people are saying Well, they're occupying Palestine, will you say Okay, Well, who was the prime Minister of Palestine? Who was the president of Palestine? What one of the nation look like they can't even accept that. If I mean if you literally say just that They will, you know, call you all of the worst things. Even if you think about what's happening right now, it's like if if if there was a genocide happening, juicer generally pretty good at math. This is the worst genocide of all time. The Gaza population is exploding. It goes up every year, as does the Arab population in the West Bank also, don't forget. There's a border of Gaza with Egypt because Gaza used to be part of Egypt until they attacked Israel and lost Gaza. Well, if Israel was slaughtering all of these people You think that they're Egyptian brothers might open up the border. But Glenn is I'm sure you know Egypt bomb the hell out of the border to keep them there because they don't want them and they filled tunnels up with water and they blew up houses and all that so That's a little off shoot of from what your question is related. Torus tried to connect this to the faith thing. I'm trying to get it to that. Even if you were to tell basic truths to people, they'll just say no, no, no campy and they don't want to hear it. They don't want to hear it. So that's why so much of what we've been. Fighting is an erasure of history as well. They don't want to know basic history because they have to fit everything to their narrative. Rather than fit history into reality. It is that it and then again You have to deny a history again. You have to deny facts. Every time that happens, you do see genocide. Well, every time someone tries to change or erase history on force people to do things genocide happens, of course, and let's even if you removed who was their first removed, the Bible removed everything. Let's just say there was a completely 50 50 who's wrong? Who's right? And people are bombing each other. Well, the new MIM of the left is O. Israel is disproportionate in their use of force that the implication is that you should be proportionate and force so if someone comes to your house to stab you, you should only stab them equally. It's psychotic. It's absolutely psychotic. By the way, the United States has never been disproportionate enforced. Colin Powell had the Powell doctrine which was that if you attack a country if whatever military action you do you do it with overwhelming force, so it doesn't happen again. Another wise, You continue to fight you want to slowly believe go ahead. Write every you'll be fighting forever More with Dave Rubin in just a second. There's some crazy things happening in California, Los Angeles. Homeless camps are everywhere. Fires are breaking.
WBUR
"ottoman empire" Discussed on WBUR
"Remark in the film new bar that it's difficult to own your own story. It's even harder to run away from it for a long part of your life. Yes. Which brings me to the whole notion of trauma. You don't have to know that you're traumatized to feel the effects of trauma. I never have any notion about that until we were getting ready for this trip. There were times when I was reading so much about what happened in the Armenian genocide. That my wife asked me to stop because it was so depressing. I mean, what happened to Armenians? The packs of it all are just devastating, but I needed to know. And slowly But surely some of the trauma has lifted and the biggest part of it was I agreed to step out from behind the camera where I had no idea I've been hiding. Mm Chris, Look, I've spent 40 plus years telling other people story and never had the thought that I might have my own story until Stopped running from my story. Speak of your paternal grandmothers. Village Cushion egg and your daughter had a map street by street of where the Armenians had lived a century ago, So we found exactly where she lived. That was very emotional for me. I mean, at that point, I felt connected to my grand mother in a way, which I've never had. And I loved my grandmother. She was incredible. But then when I was in her village, nice, so or house used to be she was looking at the lower plane. Of Hartford, and it's just stunning. But Seeing it and feeling it. And knowing that it was there because the accuracy of that map My daughter brought a picture. I'm letting picture. My grandmother and my grandfather and I just out of the blue. I said I'd like to bear this picture here. Hmm. I just really felt I wanted her. To be there. I wanted to Do something that would bring her home. And boy, it just connected me in the deepest way in a way, which I had not experienced as an adult connection is what being human is about, right? I mean, Connection with people and things and music and food and culture and art. All of it, so it deepened. Everything for me. No, It's a very complicated thing. And I have to say I have been to Turkey with my late Armenian wife and talked with Turks who look at you with the oddest expression. They tell you with a straight face that it never happened Or that the Armenians attacked the Turks with that the Armenians were in cahoots with the Russian empire against the Ottoman Empire, and, you know It's untrue and be that they know it's untrue. It's a very odd experience. I mean, I could see it in your film that you were you were going through it. So on the first trip, we found three of my grandparent's villages. They were in hard put Maternal grandmother grew up and yell over which is, you know, like a 90 minute ferry ride from Istanbul. So we arrived there and Arcand comes up to me and says, You know, there's a bunch of guys over there in the park. That would love to talk with you. So over and we sit down. And they want to talk about what happened in that village. And they've invited a local historian to come and join us. They're telling me the history of the place and how the Armenians were deported. And then they changed their story and say no, they left on their own. Ever relocation. So this historian sits down and I asked him if any of the Armenians from this village were deported, and he says no by saying the most commission thing. This meat is other having mean? Yeah, he's your room, Your dear, You took some environments. Turned never harmed.
Jewish History Matters
"ottoman empire" Discussed on Jewish History Matters
"Today i'm joined by adam teller. Who's going to be speaking with us about the century jewish refugee crisis following the sixteen forty eight on. It's key pogroms. Aman how it helps us to understand the transnational transformations of jewish life in early modern times as well as when we want to think more deeply. Broadly about refugee issues on water scale both in history and also this is something which is still very relevant today. Adam teller is a professor of history and judaic studies at brown university. He has written widely on the economic social and cultural history of the jews in early modern pulling lithuania and his most recent book. Which we're going to talk about today is titled rescue the surviving souls the great jewish refugee crisis of the seventeenth century. This is going to be the starting point for our conversation today but in many ways it's not just about the book we're gonna be talking about the big issues that surrounds it. It's really an exciting book. It was recently a finalist for the national. Jewish book award in history is a pleasure to have adam here with us. Thank you so much. Adam for joining us on the podcast. Welcome really glad to have you. Here it's a real pleasure. Thrill pledged to be here. Jason absolutely i want to get us started by thinking about kind of what is this history in the first place when we look at the story of the malinowski pogroms and aftermath in the mid seventeenth century. What is going on here. And why does it matter when we wanna think about early. Modern jewish history well in the early period poland lithuania which was then called. The police between commonwealth was the largest wealthiest most develop jewish center in europe with in world terms. It was only rivaled by the ottoman empire and had gone through about one hundred fifty years very strong social economic cultural development. Making it this powerhouse. In the history of european jewry and the place where all of your looked in a number of different fails perhaps most particularly in terms of the jewish law. But not only that
KGO 810
"ottoman empire" Discussed on KGO 810
"ABC News. I'm Dave Packard, Johnson and Johnson's one dose Corona virus vaccine gets the okay from the CDC and the FDA after a pause to investigate rare but serious blood clots, killing at least three women. Dr Henry Bernstein of Cohen Children's Medical Center in New York on the CDC advisory panel, which voted to resume this event. Blood clots and low platelets is extraordinarily rare. In the benefits of the vaccine are huge 15 blood clots were found out of about eight million doses administered Turkey, Responding after President Biden today became the first U. S president to formally recognize the Ottoman Empire is killing and deportation of Armenians that happened more than a century ago as a genocide Turkey, saying the statement opens up a deep wound more protest today and Columbus, Ohio, following the fatal police shooting this week of a black teen who was swinging a knife at another girl. 16 year old Makita Bryant shot multiple times. ABC is Trevor all to the family of Makai A Bryant mourning her death at the hands of a Columbus police officer calling for long term change in policing regardless of the situation, we have to be able to do better and protecting life. This week, the Columbus Division of Police releasing body camera footage the incident now under investigation that the interim chief of police has said officers are authorized to fire their weapons if there's a deadly threat And calls her body camera footage to be released in Elizabeth City, North Carolina, where protests continue after Andrew Brown was allegedly shot and killed Wednesday by sheriff's deputy serving of a warrant. The mayor Betty Parker, asked this morning if she knew why three deputies have resigned since Brown's death. I don't know any more about it than you do. I'm sorry. I hate to seem like I'm being vague, but they have not shared with us, and I don't know the reason. The body camera law in North Carolina only gives access to people whose likeness or voice recorded on the footage or their attorneys..
Financial Awakening
Joe Biden Declares Massacre of Armenians a Genocide
"Today. President Biden could be the first U S president who formally recognized the Armenian genocide stays recognized as the start of the killings of 1.5 million Armenians during the Ottoman Empire President spoke Friday with Turkish President Erdogan. The White House did not say if the issue was discussed. Turkey does not recognize the killings as a genocide.
KQED Radio
"ottoman empire" Discussed on KQED Radio
"But it's also a sacrifice for you because we're not going to get to spend as much time together. And you know, in that way you're helping Joe Biden to and you're helping Hill, the country. And I was like, really proud of myself. And I was like this that make sense. And she said not really. Mommy. Did she just say I don't have anything for anything? We're gonna circle back for you on that. Well, Jen Psaki, it is a joy to talk to you on. We feel lucky to do so. But we have in fact, invited you here to play a game. That this time we're calling. Take a dip in this pool you deal all day with the press pool, So we thought we'd ask you about actual pools, Swimming pools. Answer three questions about swimming pools in politics, and you will win our prize for one of our listeners the voice of anyone. They choose on their voicemail bill, who is White House Press secretary. Jen Psaki playing for Samantha Stewart of Portland, Oregon. First question. Pools have played an important role in international diplomacy, including which of these hey to gain the upper hand Miles A Dong scheduled a meeting with could chef in a swimming pool, knowing that Khrushchev could not swim. Be the division of the Ottoman Empire after the first World War was settled by a four lap swimming race between the British and French prime ministers or see the Paris peace talks to end the Vietnam War took so long because the Vietnamese Kept taking long breaks to use the hotel Jacuzzi. Go away. You're gonna go, eh? You're exactly right. That's what happened. There are photographs from that summit between Mao Zedong and Khrushchev in the swimming pool in which Khrushchev is wearing floaties. All right. You got one right? Moving on now, as I'm sure you also know there is a pool in the White House right now and outdoor swimming pool. By Gerald Ford Like to swim laps, which of these really happened at the White House pool? A Jimmy Carter converted it into a cistern for rainwater to water, the Rose Garden and an ecologically sensitive way or Be Barbara Bush was attacked by a swimming rat in the pool, which was killed by her husband, President George H. W. Bush. Or See Bill Clinton won a cannonball contest by throwing an actual cannonballs. He requisitioned from the secretary of the Army. I wanted to be be, so I'm gonna go with B. You're right. That's what right, Mrs Bush said it was the worst thing that happened to her at the White House. Okay. Last question. Pools also played a role in the Cold War. How a. The CIA came up with a plan to drop chemicals into all Soviet swimming pools to turn them instantly into Jell O. Be the Soviets proved their superiority by building a nuclear submarine with a swimming pool on board or see the Soviets bug to the swimming pool of the U. S embassy in Moscow and became convinced a top spy went by the code named Marco Polo. I'm gonna go see Gonna go with C that the Soviets actually believed there was a Marco polo because they kept shouting His name was gonna go with it if you're right. I think you're confident but no, it was actually be the Soviets built. Oh, clear missile submarine. Big enough to have a swimming pool on board. I just couldn't believe that one. But all right, All right. All right. Two for three. I feel OK about that. Bill. How did Jen Psaki do on our quiz? She had already won two. So you have one jet ventilation..
WNYC 93.9 FM
"ottoman empire" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"They choose on their voicemail bill, who is White House Press secretary. Jen Psaki playing for Samantha Stewart of Portland, Oregon. First question. Pools have played an important role in international diplomacy, including which of these a to gain the upper hand miles A Dong scheduled a meeting with could chef in a swimming pool, knowing that Khrushchev could not swim. Be the division of the Ottoman Empire after the first World War was settled by a four lap swimming race between the British and French prime ministers or see the Paris peace talks to end the Vietnam War took so long because the Vietnamese Kept taking long breaks to use the hotel Jacuzzi. Go away. You're gonna go, eh? You're exactly right. That's what happened. There are photographs from that summit between Mao Zedong and Khrushchev in the swimming pool in which Kushev is wearing floaties. All right. You got one right? Moving on now, as I'm sure you also know there is a pool in the White House right now and outdoor swimming pool. By Gerald Ford Like to swim laps, which of these really happened at the White House pool? A Jimmy Carter converted it into a cistern for rainwater to water the Rose Garden in an ecologically sensitive way or Be Barbara Bush was attacked by a swimming rat in the pool, which was killed by her husband, President George H. W. Bush. Or See Bill Clinton won a cannonball contest by throwing an actual cannonballs. He requisitioned from the secretary of the Army. I wanted to be be, so I'm gonna go with B. You're right. That's what right, Mrs Bush said it was the worst thing that happened to her at the White House. Okay. Last question. Pools also played a role in the Cold War. How a. The CIA came up with a plan to drop chemicals into all Soviet swimming pools to turn them instantly into Jell O. Be the Soviets proved their superiority by building a nuclear submarine with a swimming pool on board or see the Soviets bug to the swimming pool of the U. S embassy in Moscow and became convinced a top spy went by the code named Marco Polo. I'm gonna go see Gonna go with C that the Soviets actually believed there was a Marco polo because they kept shouting his name was gonna go with it. I think you're right. I think you're confident, but no, it was actually be the Soviets built. Clear missile submarine. Big enough to have a swimming pool on board. I just couldn't believe that one. But all right, All right. All right. For three. I feel OK about that. Bill. How did Jen Psaki do on our quiz? She had already won two. So you have one jet delusion. Jen.
KQED Radio
"ottoman empire" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Said to have brought the city back from the brink. He prevails in a legal sense, he wins. In a democratic sense. He starts out his first couple of victory laps. He's looking pretty good, and then Something changes and you start to see the hallmarks of authoritarian rule. You start to see Thetacticsroom critics and the harsh punishment of dissent. That early on? Well, you might not have imagined that it was going to go that way. Turkey will now never be in the EU in an Erdogan ist Structure. It is throttling the origin points of dissent. It is trying to keep opposition politicians out of power. It's knocking people off of ballots. It's doing all kinds of stuff. That would have made it impossible even to be in the polite company of Western nations. Now, some observers have said, Well, once it was clear that the EU was going to keep Uh, messing them around that relationship curdled and he went his own way where he was willing to play the Democratic game as long as it advantaged him. And then once he he had all the tools he needed in his hands to be who he really was. Then he came roaring out of his out of his shell and became the guy he is today. It's hard to figure I've interviewed him A couple of times He was somebody who was look to as a modernizer as someone who was going toe drag turkey into the 21st century with the force of his personality, but also with the support of his people. And now It looks entirely different. He's in the book most chapters. He's an excellent example. And he poses, as you said, is this modernizer and new infrastructure, new airports and highways? And a lot of them paid for by mountains of foreign dead. But he's also interesting because one of the palm marks of these leaders and their personality cults is that they pose this people making the nation great in the future, so their future oriented that's the modernizer, but they also play on this Tal jah. Because it's never make America great. It's always make America great again. So in air to one's case, um, listening. He had the like the Roman Empire. Everyone talks about the Ottoman Empire, and there's some very chilling quotes that you know, I've gathered from him where he says the Turkey's borders are going to extend. You know, into Greece into other, You know, countries that are not currently his territory, so they're able to be a mix of of answering desires for their country Did we have more prestige and that prestige might be modernity, But it's also some vague desire to return to when things were great again. You know, in some cases in the countries that you touch on in the book. The experience of life under a man like this. Is so Frightening so traumatizing That when you rebuild your politics after he's gone You make it really hard to have a guy like that again. So Italy has 45 different cabinets after the fall of Mussolini and the end of the monarchy. You have a Germany that goes so far in repenting of Hitlerism that it it totally remakes itself and its own memory about its history. But then, on the other hand, you have a Russia. Which, after decades and decades of really harsh one man rule and cults of personality. With just a brief but crazy and unstable into rectum. Goes back to Putinism. Almost like a the reflex of a muscle. You're not that far away from Brezhnev, and suddenly there's Putin. Yeah, and that Z and Putin is in the book as an example. So I don't deal with 20th century communists. Because I historian of fascism and I mostly stuck too, right wing authoritarians. And I also wanted to look at people who erected democracy and didn't inherit, um things close system like the Soviets. But Putin's very interesting because he draws so much on the legacy of the Soviet Union in ways that don't get talked about, perhaps enough, not just that he was in the KGB and All of his methods that retain something of Soviet political violence, but he uses you know some of the penal colonies where he ships many more people than were made aware of are the same. You know, Soviet You're a penal colonies. One of the reasons I wrote the book is that we're in this Period of intense historical revisionism. Bye authoritarians themselves. So Putin's been very busy in that regard, and you know, it's illegal to mention the Nazi Soviet pact on I always tell my students wanna teach World War two. If I wouldn't be able to mention this. If I were in Russia, I would go to jail and they're several historians sitting in his gulags. For working on the wrong things. So he's putting up statues of Stalin, but he's punishing anybody who who looks too closely into parts of the gulags that weren't known about before. So I think that the one of the things the book wants to show is the recurrences and the kind of through lines of this century of authoritarianism. And both the right and from communist to post communist and you have or bond to who was a dissident and then turned into an authoritarian, So that's a different trajectory. Well, here we are. Fifth of the way through a new century. And you've got Victor Orban with fantasies of uniting Hungarian speaking people who are scattered through not only hungry but in countries. Elsewhere in Europe, Greater Hungary, lamenting the World War, one era treaties that created Hungary's modern borders. You have MODY In India with the remembrance of something that never Wasser or hasn't been in anybody's memory, a Hindu only India, not in centuries and centuries, but Sort of building fantasies of the future around something that never Woz. You've got Putin trying to re infuse his people about a greater Russia. It seems like this is a contagion. We never quite developed the antibodies to resist as we look forward on more men going to try this rather than fewer. Yes, it's been. It's been very consistently. Something that brings popularity that you so you know, you say that you tell people the president is, you know full of threats. Um, look how Trump said. You know that America's arrested out landscape. It's a terrible place, and then you, um, package to them and market to them. This Ideal nation, So I actually added, this chapter called a greater nation because I had so many elements of you know, the exile nation than the appeals to the diaspora, and I was trying to fit them in different chapters. And I thought, you know what this is. There's so many recurrences over a century, I'm going to give it its own chapter. So that's what the greater nation is. And Mussolini was the first to appeal to the diaspora. All of Little Italy's all over the world were called into service, and there were many Italian anti fascists living abroad. But there were also a lot of fascists. And they felt great pride in Mussolini that finally people were taking Italy seriously, So this formula is used. Look at MODY. Who's very interesting his use of communications to go back to the propaganda theme where he appears at rallies by hologram so that he could be everywhere at once, which is part of the Personality Cup. And so people want to dream and these leaders are expert communicators, and they're able to make people dream that the dreams are highly destructive in the end. But in the meantime, they make people feel hope, and they make people feel proud of their nation..
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Travel with Rick Steves
Paprika In Hungary
"Let's start today's travel. With rick steves with the role a little pepper from the new world plays in that tasty cuisine of hungary. Note that today's interviews on paprika galicia where recorded just prior to the global shutdowns pepperoni as the backbone of hungarian cooking as the crucial ingredient in chicken pepper. Cash and hardy hungarian stews from mild to hot. We'll find out why this spicy so central to hungarian identity. How to best buys and pepper on your trip and we're going to learn how you can spice up. Your own meals was well to get this education hungarian paprika. We're joined by to guide tonight studio from hungary. And leonard and george farkas anna and george. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having us thrill to be well. Thank you from coming all the way from budapest a long trip. And we're gonna talk about paprika. I mean when we think of hungary we don't know a lot about hungry sometimes. But we think of paprika. What's the connection actually public. A strong connection because it is actually from the american continent and it was The physician of christopher columbus or columbus who brought it to the old world to i not to hungary of course but to spain that through the commercials of the mediterranean sea it got to the ottoman empire and when the ottoman empire extended its political power to eastern century up. We glad to not only bad things that we also got things like the patrika. What are the coffee so paprika and cuffy came as your time in the ottoman empire in paprika actually from america via columbus actually us. So i like teasing are two members and americans who is. That's why to travel here. Righ- flying through the But i like my publisher hungary. There's something romantic about having paprika in hungary. And why does hungary embrace paprika. What does it mean to hungarian. I have great micro-climate lots of sunshine. And what is very important that when we got the paprika was a hot spice and it was the hungarians who grew the might version of it it is from the nineteen twenties when in a small. Get in sega. It was kind of discovered. And since then if you come to our covid market hall you can always buy tubers the mild paprika and the hot fabric honky now. George when i go to budapest i always go to the big market hall right. But it's the name of that. Hologhan bashar knocking hungarian big market or century. You can't miss it when you're a tornado in credits. The first one out of five actually that they built at the time. And what you're going to find is well everything that hungarian cook would want to find. But certainly find peppers. See when you look for the peppers in the market. Well actually. you're not looking for peppers you looking for paprika is already well there is. It is basically a huge difference because many people don't realize it in hungary. Everything is called paprika. Let it'd be around fat skinny red yellow sweet and hot so i'm a little confused. Then so because Is it a pepper or it is a but we call it paprika but we also called a powder paprika yes because when i think of peppers and my supermarket we've got yellow ones and green ones red ones and that all of that. We call paprika even if it's Any shape really And then you have. It already powdered. If you're looking for the paprika that you cook with powdered yes okay. So it's a very unique technique to powder because One of the things that you have to be extremely careful with how you approach paprika once you grind paprika after all the time you spent with it to become dry and ready to grind. You have to do it very slowly makers as soon as you pick up speed you burn the paprika and that remains throughout its lifetime because once you come to cook it again you have to be very careful with a not to burn it because then you just have to start over again tour guides from budapest anna leonard and george farkas are filling in on the importance of peppery cup in the cuisine of hungary right now on travel with rick steves. Okay so when we're talking about this have rica and i think it goes back the days when spaces were really important. I mean spice was big money in the early days of training today today at that time and originally now why was spaces in general very important economically for people well. It was a very important product. It was expensive at that time. It was not so easy to fly from one continent to other a trip two months of making food more interesting or is it a matter of preserving food actually spicy i got to the highest study stock chrissy those who had the opportunity to get products from far far away and paprika also i was introduced for the highest stock resi in hungary after people realised it is not poisonous because i it was considered a supposin and when they discovered that it has healing effect. You know it here the colorado and screw after it they started to make its production but it was a rarity and it was very expensive so at first who is just for the very wealthy and then you learn it. It helped as medicine against scurvy and cholera. Yes but also medication. Very often is a privilege of the wealthier class. Not available for everybody. Some
Your Brain on Facts
Who Was Vlad the Impaler
"A time when I didn't know that Vlad. The Impaler was thought to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker's genre-defining vampire Dracula hop in your home school bus police box or phone booth with aerial antenna and let's go back to 15th century will lakia a region of modern-day Romania. That was then the southern Edge over to the province of Transylvania. Our flad was flat the third glad the second his father was given the nickname dracul by his fellow Crusade nights in the order of the Dragon. They were tasked with defeating the Ottoman Empire will lakia was sandwiched between the Ottomans and Christian Europe and so became the sight of constant bloody conflict without looking it up. I'm going to guess that the order of the Dragon failed since the Ottoman Empire was still standing in nineteen twenty-three. Dracul translated to dragon in Old Romanian. But the modern meeting is more like Devil add an a to the end to denote son of and you've got flat Dracula at age eleven flat and his seven-year-old brother Raju went with their father on a diplomatic Mission into the Ottoman Empire. How'd it go? Not too good. The three were taken hostage their captors told Vlad the second that he could be released if his two sons remained behind home since it was really their only option. He agreed the boys would be held prisoner for five years one account holds that they were tutored in The Art of War science and philosophy. Other accounts say that they were subjected to torture and brutal abuse by the time Vlad the second return to Allah Kiya. He was overthrown in a coup and he and his eldest son murdered shortly. Thereafter Vlad. The third was released with a taste for violence and a vendetta against the Ottomans to regain his family's power and make a name for himself. He threw a banquet for hundreds of members of rival families on the menu was wine meet sweetbreads and gruesome vicious murder off. The guests were stabbed not quite to death then impaled on large spikes. This would become vlad's signature move leading to his moniker Vlad the Impaler, but it wasn't the only arrow in his quiver. Facing an army three times the size of his he ordered his men to infiltrate their territory poison the wells and burn the crops. He also hired disease dead-end to go in and infect the enemy defeated combatants were often treated to disemboweling flaying Alive boiling and of course impalement. Basically, you turn your enemy into a kabob and let them die slowly and just as importantly conspicuously vlad's reputation spread leading to a mixing of Legend in fact like that. He wants took dinner in a veritable Forest of spikes. We do know that in June of 1462. He ordered 20,000 defeated Ottomans to be impaled. It's a scale that's hard to even imagine when the Ott's in Sultan mehmed II Came Upon the Carnage he and his men turned on their heels and fled back to Constantinople. You would think flawed was on the road to Victory but shortly thereafter. He was forced into Exile and imprisoned in Hungary. He took a stab no pun intended on regaining will lakia fifteen years later, but he and his troops were ambushed and killed according to a contemporary
Tara Brach
Change, Loss and Timeless Love
"Nama stay and welcomed my friends. Really glad to have you with us. I was recently perusing two different articles. The first title was aging the secret to happiness and the second was WANNA be happier. All you have to do is get older. So same theme and they both draw on research that teams to confirm this correlation that the older we get the happier we are. Now I know that seems counter intuitive given the challenges we face that we. Lose, people we love and we lose our youth and our health and our memory. I saw cartoon this very old couple and they were both on rockers on the porch and he's responding to her. He says, now you want an open relationship. Of Billy Crystal, but it this way he said by the time, a man is a wise enough to watch his step. He's too old to go anywhere. Okay so there's this evidence that Carlos aging with happiness and the understanding that resonates for me is that through our our lifetime, we have the capacity to learn and adapt and spiritually evolve and. With the passing of time. There can be a growing acceptance of the inevitability. Of Change and loss. A growing acceptance. Of Change and loss. and. Walk. Clearly, this doesn't happen to everyone for those that do deepen in that acceptance. Nabil's living and appreciating the moments. And loving were fully. So the title of this talk, and the one that follows is change loss and timeless. Love. And the theme arises from a central teaching on the spiritual path and. That is that our capacity to live and love fully is totally intertwined with how we relate to change and loss. So. This'll be AH invitation for you to look in your own life at how you're relating to change and loss. It feels really relevant right now to explore this given, how many people around the globe are experiencing such rapid change and real loss due to global pandemic and Deepening social divides and climate change the devastation to this earth. And while it may feel like change a speeding up. impermanent. So what really makes us clutch? Is really the nature of all takes form. And we know it on the on the largest sweeps. If you think of the history of the Universe Big Bang and stardust forming and planet earth elements combining to create this amazing variety of life forms and then Homo sapiens evolving tools and art and science and war and slavery in plagues and collaboration innovation. The whole thing you know empires coming and going Greeks the Romans, the Ottoman. Empire Portuguese the British the American. You know rising to dominance and then passing we always think things are for good but it all passes and here we are. On the brink of destroying. Earth our home. Seeing species common species become extinct. galaxies. Of Stars collapsing into black holes, it's all in permanent. And then. We can sense it on the most minute level you know if right this moment. You take the time to perhaps closure is and bring your attention inward and hold still really still. You can sense that. The body everything inside a moving if you feel your hands is anything holding stelle. It might seem that way if you're very very tense but if you even begin to relax a little, you can sense the hands feet. In the face. The Heart Everything's moving. Nothing hold still there's this. Ever changing flow of sensations feelings. Sounds come and go. Your body's replacing sells millions per second. Within those cells nonstop motion.
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Travel to Zagreb
"Let's start with a look at a European capital that's often overlooked by the beach crowd who enjoy Croatia's crystal clear coastline. But miss out on the scene in its capital city. It has a distinctively modern take on old world charm and it's just a few hours inland. To tell us about saga we're joined now by local guide Darya goateed. She's joined by Ben Curtis who writes about the Balkan regions elaborate history and thinks that Croatia's best period may be now Darya in Ben Welcome my pleasure. Same. Thank you for having. US Doria. You're from Zagreb your guide in Zagreb, a lot of Americans no Dubrovnik. Venice and a lot of Americans know the Anna Zagreb is right there in the middle. What should we know about Zagreb? Nanna. Saga is I would say the mix of. All these big capitals around and all these much better known cities around from historical perspective It was influenced by different cities and countries. So we have a little bit of all of that. What's an example? How is it a little bit of? How is it a little bit of Italy says it a little bit of the Slavic World So? obas part of the hops Burke monarchy later austro-hungary for few hundred. Years. And then architecture in town is very much what we would call out through nor Central European. So the mixture of Hungarian hungarian-austrian. We don't have much Dubrovnik textures that. Is Zog. Is completely different about the cuisine that scene is also very influenced by Austria but not only that we do eat struggles and. A lot of meat and potatoes and then on the other hand we also eat. A lot of Pasta beat some. We are very sensitive on coughing, and then we also have the Turkish influence because arguable also for few centuries, just about forty, five, fifty miles Sir north from the Ottoman Empire boarder okay. It's a crossroads release across through the s the Ben Curtis here in American who has a fascination and a deep interest in this part of Europe how would you say Zagreb is unique Zagreb is unique for being this gem of a central European capital. So everybody can measure saying they know Budapest, Vienna, they know Prague, but here's this. Gym of a historical city that hardly any American visits right and even though Zagreb stars rising on the Tourism Front these days but you can go there and it's not gonna be jammed with busloads of tourists from all over the place you're not gonNA hear a lot of other North American accents and you're going to be able to experience the city where the fabric of locals you're going to be sitting in a cafe with mostly other people from Zagreb, and that's great and it's hard to find that in Dubrovnik are in Vienna these days a year. Exactly. So if you had two nights in in one Danes, is there enough to keep you busy. Yeah. For sure I think, what would you do if you're gonNA show me around for a day the it's a great kind of one day stop if you're coming in and out for some of the coast. So Zagreb surprisingly has some of I think are the best museums of its kind in Europe now they're quirky right? You don't. Go desire grab for the Louvre or something like that. But you go to Zagreb for these unusual small museums like the Museum of naive art, which is great sort of not formally trained perhaps painters but really characteristic art with peasant themes. The famous one which is kind of made headlines around the world is a museum of broken relationships which is filled with these stories of couples who have broken up the objects that they have Meant something to them and they've given it this museum and so it's just a really interesting kind of poignant sometimes hilarious trip through people's relationships. So when we think of this naive art, I love this idea because you go to most art galleries in Europe Bennett, the opposite of naive arted this refined fully embraced high-society art but naive art is by definition just unschooled hasn't Sir Working People that just had a passion for painting. Exactly but are often very, very talented even if they didn't train at the academy or something like that but they're expressing the lives and cultures and artistic visions of people from the rural areas and it's genius really an undiscovered genius that happen to come out of the farm community or something absolutely. I love that museum by the way that that's really one of the unique things in Europe and it is in the capital of Croatia Zagreb.
Between The Lines
The French history behind Lebanon's problems
"Earlier this month, a deadly blast in Beirut killed more than one hundred and seventy people, engine thousands, and lift three, hundred, thousand homeless. And a vast landscape of destruction. Now, Lebanon was already in extremely bad shape before this blast exacerbated by the covid crosses the chronic corruption and dysfunction that had defined Lebanese politics for decades with all that had brought the economy to ruin. Many people have lost they laugh savings and investments no wonder widespread protests recently led to the resignation of the Lebanese Prime Minister and his cabinet. So the poodle listen a broader historical context. Let's welcome back to the program Joshua Landis. He heads the Middle East Program at the University of Oklahoma Josh Welcome back to between the lines. It's a pleasure being with you Tom. Now Lebanon was once a model for the Middle East by route was dubbed the Paris of the East. Now, today Lebanon looks like Syria Iraq how did this happen? Well it happened because Lebanon is an extremely divided country it like Iraq and Syria there are Shiites and sinise dividing the Muslim side but there's also about thirty three percent of the population are Christians. Both marinade there and and Greek Orthodox. So you have the same. Religious Divisions in Lebanon that you do in Syria and Iraq but in fact, you have more and that's one reason why Lebanon fell into such a bloody civil war from nineteen, seventy, five to ninety, which was. Patched up. Most recently and They've been running in what turns out to be a real puns e scheme through the central. Bank. In which they shored up the Lebanese pound by borrowing gobs of money billions upon billions of dollars and. and. Supporting the exchange rate, but it turned out that that was a Ponzi scheme because tons of Lebanese in Australia. The United States Europe were sending their dollars to Lebanon to be in these dollar-denominated accounts that were getting interest rates as high as twelve thirteen percent. So everybody wanted that kind of interest rate, but it turned out to be a Ponzi scheme in just collapsed a few months ago, which was sparked these terrible demonstrations and instability because the country is now impoverished inflation has gone through the roof and people are discovering that they don't have any money and it's it's Lit tensions between different sectarian groups, and of course, as I mentioned in my introduction many people in Lebanon I've lost their life savings and investments. To people realize that it goes back to the collapse of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War One this in France and Britian what do they do that essentially created free great minority ruled regimes in the Middle East, tell us mall. Yes they did and Lebanon was carved out by France which got a both Syria and Lebanon from the League of Nations after World War One. The League of Nations conceded this to France to really rule over the mass colonies, but they are called mandates and. France carved out Lebanon as an independent country. And made the borders such that they were as big as they possibly could maintaining a Christian majority so that the government would be dominated by Christians at the center ruling over Shiites Druze a bunch of sending Moslems none of whom would be able to compete in theory with the Christians and this allowed for a very French friendly country on the Mediterranean that France thought would serve it. Well, the problem is that within the years. The demographics began to change and Muslims became the crushing majority and this led to the civil war in hundred, seventy five and ever since then the various religious groups have been squabbling over. Political power. And today fifty percent of all parliament members that have to be Christians. National Pact even though Christians are probably only a third, the population which underlines how You know precarious. The entire political system is, and of course, in Iraq following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire with the British mandate the Sunni minority pretty much ran the show from the time of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire right through the downfall of Saddam Hussein, and in Syria it was the Alawite minority that ran the show and of course Stiffer differs from the Sunni majority during the recent civil war. Correct. You're absolutely right and this was a pattern throughout the northern Middle East where the colonial powers whether it was. Britain or was France would establish a minority in power given the lion's share of power, and that helped them to rule by divide and conquer, but it left a terrible legacy. That the Middle East is suffering from today because the Alawites this religious minority that's twelve percent of the country ruled Syria and today the uprising was an attempt by the Sydney majority to overthrow that minority that's clinging to power in Syria Saddam Hussein sunny twenty percent of the country Cenis and the Shiite majority and Kurds rose up to try to get rid of Saddam Hussein leading to very bloody civil war ethnic war and and that's that's one of the major causes for instability throughout. The region is this terrible fight between these different religious groups
The Economist: The Intelligence
Going old Turkey: a regional power spreads
"A decade ago, Turkey's Foreign Minister Audit of Attalou used to boast his country was on good terms with everyone police fantasia want. less confrontation, less tense attitude. Especially, in the region, he spoke at the Council on foreign, relations with the will of the principal. In. Two thousand three. Zero problems with our neighbors. And the made a huge progress. All, that now seems a distant memory Turkey is growing its international influence and not always with a light touch. The country has been backing Libya's government in its civil war. Last month. The Turkish Defence Minister landed in Libya to inspect his troops and opposition warlord warned them to get out or else. Turkey prompted an angry statement from Egypt last week by allegedly planning gas exploration and Egyptian waters. And yesterday Turkish officials railed against an American company for its dealings with ethnic Kurds in neighboring Syria. That Turkey believes to be terrorists. To some, all this adventurism is reminiscent of past chapter of the country's history when the Ottoman Empire ruled all of Syria and far beyond. Turkey, has been playing an especially prominent role in Syria since protests spread into a full blown civil war. Turkey has really become a meshed in Syria since the start of the our spring, the uprisings that took place in two thousand eleven across the Middle East it back. The Islamist. Movements that initially took to the streets and then took up arms. Nicholas Pelham is our Middle East correspondent. But as those fighters were false back towards its border, it's really stepped into try and protect its southern border, stop any more refugees coming into the country and to provide some sort of safe zone for the proteges, and it's also very nervous about the current state law that emotion the northeast of the country. It feels very threatened by the emergence of Kurdish power on the southern borders, and is it reasonable for Turkey to think that those Kurdish forces are really a threat historic? The have been links between the PK, the cuts down Workers Party, which has been waging a thirty five year a war for. Autonomy and separatism inside Turkey. Many of those fighters did flee sought refuge in Iraq and in Syria, and so Turkey is worried about what it sees very much kind of PKK influenced state emerging on its southern borders. So this year it's been launching pretty heavy attacks inside Iraq, it's been sending tanks across the border. It's established positions inside northern Iraq. It's been carrying out drone bombardments, such two hundred kilometers from its border in Saint, John More, Kurds all the way along its southern border inside Syria inside. Iraq see a new Turkish assault, which is pushing deep into their territory and not just unsettling. Kurdish aspirations for sovereignty in Iraq and Syria, and this is also unnerving Arab leaders as well. Who Turkey pushing deep into territory, which was part of the Turkish Republic predecessor. The Ottoman Empire, which ruled the Middle East centuries until its dissolution about a century ago, which is to say that Turkey is expanding its influence is doing this adventurism beyond Iraq and Syria all over the Middle East of the moment. There's a this year has seen the new intervention of the Turkish, Army. Libya. They came to the rescue of the besieged government of National Accord. In Tripoli, which has been fighting a civil war against a renegade general. Khalifa. After Turkish forces established at base on the borders of Tunisia, we're seeing it's frigates make a bid for control of looking coastline and even ward off French frigates. We're really seeing a substantive increase in Turkish. Power across the Middle East and it's not just happening in Liberia. It's happening in Gaza, which is an ally of Turkey. Turkish forces there have tried to help. Cut Break Its blockade by Saudi Arabia they're. A. Few hundred to a few thousand Turkish forces that are they're wasting more Turkish interested in Yemen civil war. We're seeing interest in a Sudanese port and actually Turkey's largest overseas basis in the point of Africa. So really this is a massive increase in Turkey spread across the middle, East and do you believe that the the the Ottoman history plays into that as a return to former glories? In some way? It's very much the in the rhetoric certainly saw Mr. Osman tropes at the at the height of the Arab spring wanted to appear to be the leader of the Muslim world. He was promoting his version of governance across the region hoping to clone the Turkish model across the Middle East. But since the collapse of Islamist movement since its as from power in Egypt and the retreat of many of its forces, he's really kind of played much more on Turkey's national interests. He's ally domestically with what had been his nationals opposition. He seems to be much more concerned on trying to maximize Turkey's economic claims in the. The Mediterranean this since much more about promoting Turkey's national interests than flying it systems colors. This is really an exercise in in hard power and trying to exploit the weakness of others, the retreat of Europe and America from the Middle East. The policies of many Arab governments, and try and push Turkey to fill what seems to be a vacuum of power across the Middle East, and so is that push to serve Turkey's national interests working is, is it benefiting from this from this expansionism? If you're trying to put together a balance sheet of profit balance sheet? Sheet Turkey has benefited from Khatri investment cutters, loans, and investments have helped prop up the Turkish lira. It may be that country's also hoping to fund part of its military costs in Libya Turkeys, keen to promote its companies when it comes to eventual reconstruction of war-torn Libya, which after all is energy rich state, and so long term, there may be benefits, his critics home highlight, the cost it's estimated that Turkish operations in Syria have cost anything up to about thirty billion dollars, and of course, there is a threat that you're going to see a major escalation. Escalation in the Middle East, which could embroil Turkey. It's not just Turkey is entering the middle, East enforce. It's also Russia. Many Arab states are trying to gain Russian support to push back Turkey, not just Syria Egypt the United Arab Emirates looking to Russian support in Libya, and Egypt is sending its tanks to the Libyan borders. The UN warned that the risk of a of a regional war focused on Libya and beyond that that risk was huge. So this is a massive gamble and it looks as if the stakes are going to be increasingly hyphen
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Exploring Hungary
"Let's start out today's travel. With Rick Steves with a little old world charm in Hungary when travelling in Europe. You just have to include the great cities on your itinerary. Hungry elegant capital of Budapest is certainly impressive. But there's another side that you should explore as well and that's the country's smaller towns and cities historic Acre is an easy and popular sidetrip northeast of Budapest. It's been attracting travelers from Eastern Europe. As a place to catch your breath surrounded by the opulent architecture of Hungary to introduce us to the scene. And we're joined by Hungarian tour guides. Monica Poche and George. Farkas thank you. Did I get that right in Budapest? If you're looking for a little break you head up to egger very much. So yes how far away is it and what it would take about. Maybe an hour and ten minutes done in a highway and then on the secondary roads. And then you find yourself in gear Third Drain Connection. There is yes you will have to switch. That's one of the reasons why is not as cosmopolitan as it should be? Because when the train tracks were planned they didn't make a direct connection initially so That's a little bit of a of a downside of it but there's a great bus connection as well so Monica when you were growing up in Budapest. Did your family ever go to Edgar together? Yes actually not just with our family but I remember that During school trips during the communist era we were taken to Edgar Edgar was the seat of the archbishop pre so it has fantastic beautiful churches by the way would like to tell you during the communist era because of the nine hundred fifty six revolution aft-r in Hungary all of the churches are considered to be museums. Saw it ever also well capped? That's even during the communists. They are as squid children. We were taken to the Churches Museums. But not as living places of worship. The church survived physically. But it's a historic place Museum rather than a place of worship joining a community standard harmonised. Okay well it was very much controlled control. Why let's just turn around a little bit and say why Edgar would be the number one destination for Hungarians visit because it's part of the curriculum because that's where biggest victory happened. Hi this is Turkey Turkish time because they talk about. That was the last place to be taken in by the Turks of they go all the way thirteen. Nine thousand Turks are coming over and two thousand Gillian's actually locked themselves up. In the castle women children as early and they go and defeat the Turks. So that's the victory talk about. That's why all children are taken and they are taught. We don't talk about the fact that the send away the defeated Turks. A couple of months later turned around and came back into the town. But that's something we talk about. Obviously that's that's not really something won your battle fifteen fifty two so nearly five hundred years ago. The castle is still there and you can visit the Castle Castle. You even as a tourist. You get a sense. This is really important to the Hungarian much so very much. And my memory of Egor is a minaret and it must be the most northern minaret from the Ottoman Empire sticking up right there in the middle of this city yet. It's like a spaceship. There cannot send has no contracts they just sitting there is under go in a major restoration and so rather interesting Just recently they Reinstated the culpa. Praia a month later. They put it on their huge reconstruction was built for the the man who sings the calder calling. For prayer he actually climb up. The spirit is what about two hundred steps all the way to the top right and then he would get that acoustical benefit of being a top of everybody and to this day while they might not climb up there five times a day. Tourist can climb up there. Yes it's a tight little climb. Yes but it's a good view from there and also the reason it's important to mention because although Hungary was under the Turkish Ottoman invasion in a fifteenth century. They majorly converted existing buildings into minarets or they converted the Roman Catholic churches into mosques. They didn't be too many things. They've built these mirrors that we have. I think maybe two or three in our whole country for the minaret would just decorate a pre existing building that became a mosque. Is that what you're only by? They will buy. It's very rare to see anything from the Fifteenth Century Turkish Ottoman era. But that minaret is one of a kind of it. Gary Tour Guides. George Farkas said Monica Poche telling US why the town of Edgar Northern Hungary is one of the country's most popular getaways right now on travel with Rick. Steves something I remember from Edgar is. The market is just a wonderful market. George can you take us on a little walk? If you have some American friends with you and you want to introduce the culture. What would you find in the market at Egger? That gives us an insight into the salt of their Hungarian cuisine. And it's a great experience. Actually it's a a living market and you still see the ones that actually just went out in the morning and they went to see what's there to sell and they come onto their tunnel is stalls and then they sell day or individual small quantity backyard. I remember that it's like my little card table. And there's a hardscrabble old farmer husband and wife and they've got their turnips potatoes and they kind of looked like their produce very much so yeah so you can get that type of thing and then and then you continue on and then you start to see. The beautifully presented larger stalls with Grapes and Peaches and plums and veggies. And all that beautiful presented. The key is to have that relationship with the vendor. So you go and blink and then they know that they know us so you get the nice stuff From the front. I'm you know to really presentable one. And you're not regular year. You have to be aware you might not get what you see. Are you likely to find some of this famous Hungary and Moonshine for sale very much so Pelinka Pelinka because that's fundamentally something It's like GRAPPA? It's very legal. I would say it starts from eighty proof upwards and its shots That's how in the old days those that work out in the field started. They with just to get some energy my hunches. There's these flat little flasks. That people have definitely I I do have one with me. At that moment Hungarians would never leave the country without a Lilla flat flesh of Polanco. We also call it medicine if you have a heartache if you have a little bit of stomach problem because you're abrode no you are not taking. Bapti obese more something as but you immediately get delillo. Hungarian piling cars sanitizer society. Strong believe it or not but there are still destination centers in the country when you have some fruit trees in Hungary. Let's say plum or apricot or whatever you can take your own fruit to these destinations centers. You know it's bio and then Not filled with chemicals and then they make it for you. This bio moonshine exactly. There's actually a reconsidered approach today because In the old days when you went to house of Hungarian Oh you start to the dinner at the venue they will offer you pulling her and now modern culinary understanding. Is that if you offer Pelinka before the meal. You should be assured that the meal is not going to be good because what they say that if you have your Pelinka sort of so strong it kills your taste at your ability to ten. Then you don't taste the food so now pulling Kush should actually be digested. I suppose to Pera tiff. So if you are a host and you respect what you've cooked you want people to appreciate it you're not gonNA hide it by giving then you offered as before
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House Passes Resolution Recognizing Armenian Genocide
"Okay in the house also approved a second measure today aimed at rebuking Turkey that resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide why is that significant so will the economic sanctions could sting if signed into law there was this symbolic rebuke as well an overwhelming vote of four hundred five to eleven to recognize the Armenian genocide this is been a big priority of Armenian American advocacy groups and they've argued that that the United States needs to recognize the deaths of an estimated one point five million Armenians from nineteen fifty teen the nineteen twenty three they were systematically killed in the Ottoman Empire which is now modern day Turkey accomplishment Brad Sherman has been an advocate for this resolution for more than twenty years we should recognize that genocide again and again long ago but we didn't because we were told that we had a great alliance with Turkey previous administrations have prevented movement on this in part due to fierce opposition from the Turkish government but it's now called because so many in Congress feel like the relationship with Turkey has
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House Passes Resolution Recognizing Armenian Genocide
"Okay in the house also approved a second measure today aimed at rebuking Turkey that resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide why is that significant so will the economic sanctions could sting if signed into law there was this symbolic rebuke as well an overwhelming vote of four hundred five to eleven to recognize the Armenian genocide this is been a big priority of Armenian American advocacy groups and they've argued that that the United States needs to recognize the deaths of an estimated one point five million Armenians from nineteen eighteen to nineteen twenty three they were systematically killed in the Ottoman Empire which is now modern day Turkey accomplishment Brad Sherman has been an advocate for this resolution for more than twenty years we should recognize that genocide again and again long ago but we didn't because we were told that we had a great alliance with Turkey previous administrations have prevented movement on this in part due to fierce opposition from the Turkish government but it's now called because so many in Congress feel like the relationship with Turkey has degraded are either these measures gonna go anywhere in the Senate you know that's an interesting question it faces a skeptical Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader McConnell essentially gets to decide whether gets a vote a congressman McCall he's the top Republican on the house foreign affairs committee he says he's been in constant communication with the White House and his counterparts in the Senate he's confident they can come to an agreement they'll go through the Senate and I I I feel very strongly the president will sign it the president has actually lifted sanctions on Turkey as part of the administration's efforts to broker a cease fire in Syria so it will be a heavy lift to convince the president to sign and the White House hasn't weighed in on this houseboat but the Senate will get a classified briefing to more about serious so we'll be hearing more about it soon no