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[-] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Probably because the Ottoman empire would just crush everyone's cock with a rock if they so much as started anything. I highly doubt anyone around there voted for the Ottoman empire to occupy their lands and take their resources, haha.

Generally, strongman rule makes things pretty peaceful. Vlad the impaler had a low crime rule, but he also impaled 20,000 enemy troops in a "Forest of the imapaled" and also impaled any criminals, which somehow kept crime remarkably low. But it wasn't exactly a happy rule, and people cheered when he was eventually ambushed, beheaded, and (fittingly) impaled on the walls above Constantinople...ironically by Mehmed II, ruler of the Ottoman empire. xD

He fought the Ottoman empire's encroach his entire life and ended up getting ambushed and dying stupidly. But he went down in legend for being crazy hardcore (and his wife, queen Justinia too, who was absolutely mental as well, iirc)

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