• dgdft@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Turns out rampaging through the Netherlands, the Rhineland principalities, northern Italy, the Balkans, Austria, Prussia, Poland, Russia, Egypt, Spain, and Portugal in the span of 20 years earns you some longstanding animosity.

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      11 days ago

      Hold on, when was that? Was it after literally all the royal families in Europe banded together trying to punish the one country that dared murder their king, because they feared it would spread to their own country? When England kept sitting across the sea while funding multiple European coalitions to keep attacking over and over?

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        11 days ago

        to the general population the reasons really do not matter. didn’t then, and not even now.

        the question wasn’t wether or not the animosity is justified, but where it comes from.

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          11 days ago

          It’s okay, we don’t hold a grudge against them for trying to enforce absolute monarchy by crushing a people that tried to break free from their tyranny. We just think they’re pussies.