Comments by "Ikenga Spirit" (@ikengaspirit3063) on "What if the Cold War was a Normal War?" video.

  1. That liberty sigma grindset.
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  2. What if Tang continued their expansion into Central Asia after the Battle of Talas (None of the rebellions that followed after that crippled the dynasty)[Also the Sassanid dynasty had gone to Tang China and its prince was there at the frontlines of the Battles against the Caliphate, I imagine that if the Tang are relatively triumphant he would be made a vassal King or commandary on a Tang Iranian protectorate]. What if Viking expansion took them all the way to West Africa, establishing trade routes btw West Africa and Europe through the Atlantic by 1000 AD. What if Portugal and Ethiopia allied to destroy Mecca. What if the Ottomans conquered Rome.
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  3.  @kyrozephyr8628  well Mecca has only been raided by Muslims before, never by Christians and so stuff like the Black stone will be in danger of destruction. Looking at past Jihads and Crusades, being mad isn't making anyone super human. The Crusades failed to destroy any significant Muslim power and the Jihads couldn't take Constantinople at its height and couldn't stop Byzantine reassendance. It took only like 300 Portuguese soldiers to blunt the Adal Jihad to conquer it and there are no other Muslim powers with a direct border to Ethiopia. So what we are looking at is an Adal lead Jihad with Ottoman and Somali Ghazis vs a modernizing Ethiopian Army(the only way they could have gotten to Arabia) with Portuguese and others European help. So all in all, everything is still in favour of the Muslims, so they could still win, depends on how distracted the Ottomans are in the Mediterranean fighting Portugal and its allies. Also at this time the Europeans only held fortified towns/cities in North Africa which are defensible from land and only really has the Ottoman Empire's Navy to fear.
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