Reminder that my take is we should take the Cold War Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact as just one more example in a multi-millennial...
Reminder that my take is we should take the Cold War Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact as just one more example in a multi-millennial history of “if someone manages to unite the eastern plains tribes into a coherent federation they’ll be able to use massed cavalry to take over Central Europe and threaten west until they collapse from internal tensions”