I’m listening to books about the Mongol invasions these days, inspired by Ghost of Tsushima.
A country of one million people conquered the largest empire and were good at adopting innovations from one end of empire and BOOM instantly implementing them at the other end.
“You managed to kill some of us. Awesome! Good job! You win a free trip to the other side of Asia. Just show those guys how you killed so well! Bon voyage!”
Mongols conquered Persia and then sent just two engineers to China where they showed how to make 40 ton trebuchets and catapults that tossed giant boulders through castle walls.
Interestingly, it was the Mongols who unified China and set its current borders via almost two hundred years of attacks on multiple Chinese dynasties, including the Song which at the time accounted for 50% of total global GDP, like the US at the end of WW II.
The Song sent an army of 50,000 to surprise the Mongols as an attempted first strike but the Mongols had far faster communication and used trained eagles 🦅 for reconnaissance as the Mongols ambushed this army and wiped them out, and things went downhill from that point for the Song and for China.
Why is Tibet part of China? Mongol conquests.
Chinese can’t see it, but it’s pretty obvious that Mongol values are the core values of the CCP, including policy promotion through unimaginable mass murder of millions.
If you are against global warming, you should praise the Mongols and Chinese, who probably chopped down so many people that there are billions fewer and thus massively less carbon emissions than there would have been had Mongols and Chinese been Buddhist pacifists.
It’s Stockholm Syndrome on steroids that the CCP would have values so identical to the worst excesses of the worst invaders ever to attack the Chinese people, who are obviously not as aggressive as other people’s, or we would all be speaking Mandarin in 2020.
So statements like Neil deGrasse Tyson seem like a high school student trying to impress other high school students.