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The Fall of Constantinople and the Folly of the West

The battle for freedom is here, and it’s now, and we must do what we can. That means we seriously need to look at our immigration policies. We need to wake the hell up, because we are letting the enemy of our hard-won freedoms literally walk in through the front door.

,   and  Cam Slater
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I've recently been reading a novel about the Fall of Constantinople in 1458 at the hands of the 21-year-old Mehmed II in 1458. Mehmed II has already defeated John Hunyadi for Hungary prior to advancing on Constantinople, investing the city with siege works for a mere 58 days and battering his way through the supposedly impregnable Theodosian Walls, which had stood and defeated many sieges for more than a thousand years.

As I read the novel and the background information that saw the end of the Byzantine Empire and the rise of the Ottoman Empire after the taking of the “Red Apple” of Constantinople, I thought to myself there are eerie similarities to what is befalling the West right now.

The Byzantine Emperor, ironically named Constantine, after the founder of Constantinople, believed right up until he was chopped in to pieces by the invading Ottomans that the West would send help to relieve the siege.

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