Victor David Hansom — American Greatness March 15, 2023
When Constantinople finally fell to the Ottomans on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, the Byzantine Empire and its capital had survived for 1,000 years beyond the fall of the Western Empire at Rome.
Always outnumbered in a sea of enemies, the Byzantines’ survival had depended on its realist diplomacy of dividing its enemies, avoiding military quagmires, and ensuring constant deterrence.
Generations of self-sacrifice ensured ample investment for infrastructure. Each generation inherited and improved on singular aqueducts and cisterns, sewer systems, and the most complex and formidable city fortifications in the world.
Brilliant scientific advancement and engineering gave the empire advantages like swift galleys and flame throwers—an ancient precursor to napalm.
The law reigned supreme for nearly a millennium after the emperor Justinian codified a prior thousand years of Roman jurisprudence.
Yet this millennium-old crown jewel of the ancient world that once was home to 800,000 citizens had only 50,000 inhabitants left when it fell.
There were only 7,000 defenders on the walls to hold back a huge Turkish army of over 150,000 attackers.
The Islamic winners took over the once magical city of Constantine and renamed it Istanbul. It had been the home of the renowned Santa Sophia, the largest Christian church in the world for over 900 years. Almost immediately, this “Church of the Holy Wisdom” was converted into the then largest mosque in the Islamic world, with minarets to follow.
So what happened to the once indomitable city fortress and its empire?
Christendom had cannibalized itself. Western Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy fought endlessly. Westerners often hated each other more than they did their common enemy.
In the final days of Constantinople, almost no help was sent from Western Europe to the besieged city.
In fact, 250 years earlier, the Western Franks of the Fourth Crusade had detoured from the Holy Land to storm the supposedly allied Christian City of Constantinople.
Then they ransacked the city and hijacked the Byzantine Empire for a half-century. Constantinople never quite recovered.
The 14 th-century Black Plague killed tens of thousands of Byzantines and scared thousands more into moving out of the cramped city.
But the aging and dying empire battled more than the challenges of internal divisions, or an unforeseen but deadly pandemic and the empire’s disastrous responses to it.
The last generations of Byzantines had inherited a global reputation and standard of living that they themselves no longer earned.
They neglected their former civic values and fought endless battles over obscure religious texts, doctrines, and vocabulary.
They did not expand their anemic army and navy. They did not reunite their scattered Greek-speaking empire. They did not properly maintain their once life-giving walls.
Instead of earning money through their accustomed nonstop trade, they inflated their currency and were forced to melt down the city’s inherited gold and silver fixtures.
The once canny and shrewd Byzantines grew smug and naïve. Childlessness became common. Most now preferred to live outside of what had become a half-empty, often dirty, and poorly maintained city.
Meanwhile they underestimated the growing power of the Ottomans who systematically pruned away their empire. By the mid-15th century Islamic armies were ready to exploit fatal Byzantine weaknesses.
The Sultan Mehmed II grandly announced the Ottomans were now the real, the only world power. Ascendent Ottoman armies would eventually move on to the very gates of Vienna in an effort to rule all the lands of the ancient Roman empire.
We should take heed from the last generations of the Byzantines.
Nowhere is it foreordained that America has a birthright to remain the world’s preeminent civilization.
An ascendent China seems eerily similar to the Ottomans. Beijing believes that the United States is decadent, undeserving of its affluence, living beyond its means on the fumes of the past—and very soon vulnerable enough to challenge openly.
Left and Right seem to hate each other more than they do their common enemies.
Like the Byzantines, Americans gave up defending their own borders, and simply shrugged as millions overran them as they pleased.
Our once iconic downtowns, like end-stage Constantinople before the fall, are now dirty, half-deserted, dangerous, and dysfunctional.
America prints rather than makes money, as its banks totter near bankruptcy.
Americans similarly believe they are invincible without ensuring in reality that they are. Our military is more worried about being woke than deadly.
Like Byzantines, Americans have become snarky iconoclasts, more eager to tear down art and sculpture that they no longer have the talent to create.
Current woke dogma, obscure word fights, and sanctimonious cancel culture are as antithetical to the past generations of World War II as the last generation of Constantinople was to the former great eras of the emperors Constantine, Justinian, Heraclius, and Leo.
The Byzantines never woke up in time to understand what they had become.
So far neither have Americans.
If you have time, Tom Holland’s “In The Shadow of The Sword” is worth listening too. (Perhaps on a long journey.) His prose can be a little flowery, so close listening is recommended.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smkusYsE4DE&t=12s
He discusses how Islam was borne out of the power vacuum created by the wars between Romans and Persians. The Arabs were initially employed as mercenaries by both sides and gradually assumed power. Islam can be seen to be an amalgam of Jewish, Christian and even Zoroastrianism – from the Persians (e.g. praying five times a day); the so called “people of the book”.
If marriages are made on earth rather than in heaven, religion too shows how this inclusivity arose out of political needs. Indeed, I only learnt a few days ago that according to Graham Hancock — someone mentioned with reference to Atlantis et al — in the comments recently, an astronomy religion who carried the legacy of the pyramid-astronomy connection were also initially regarded as “people of the book”.
When we have finally vanquished the Jew which includes the actual blood Ghuz Turks and other Satanic bloodlines we shall retake our beautiful glorious city of Byzantium.
Glory to The True Israel!
Death to the Synagogue of Satan!
PRAISE THE LORD!
It does not matter too much–the Byzantines were (officially) religious Zealots and were wrong about the world, like all the other religious zealots, then and now. They were less corrupt than Rome, but that’s not saying much
Another big mistake in a time of economic turmoil was for the US to destroy Germany and Russia’s gas pipeline. Now Germany and Europe have no industry which could have helped out America’s financial institutes. The US made them all poor and poor people can’t loan out big money. Although they might not have wanted to fund risky bailouts they would have been pressured to do it and would have done so.
Well of course the Ottoman Empire was set up as a haven for and by Sephardic Jews fleeing Spain and Portugal after the Inquisition:
“Then, in the wake of the expulsion from Spain (1492) and the forced conversion in Portugal (1497), tens of thousands of Iberian Jews arrived in Ottoman territories. As all that was required of them was the payment of a poll‑tax and acknowledgement[SIC] of’ the superiority of Islam, the empire became a haven for these refugees.”
“From early in the 16th century, the Jewish community in the Ottoman Empire became the largest in the world. Constantinople and Salonika each had a community of approximately 20,000 people. Immigration from the Iberian peninsula, arriving in several waves throughout the 16th century, also transformed the character of Ottoman Jewry. Far more numerous than the local Jews, the Spaniards and the Portuguese soon submerged the Romaniots, and the indigenous population was assimilated into the culture and community of the new immigrants.” https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-ottoman-empire/
No mention in this article of how Jews instigated and financed the slaughter of Armenians who were Christian. They always go after Christians and after the deed is done, make up stories about how Jews were the victims. Don’t look here folks, look over there.
Waves of Arabs and Jews submerged the indigenous population and that is what happened to Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Rome. That is the prime directive of Jews, seek out new frontiers and destroy the unique culture of the nation. Infiltrate, subvert, outlaw the native language, ridicule native custom, pervert and rape children, slaughter the men, confiscate livestock, gold, silver, artwork, anything of value. Replace it with filth. All the while, holler about how Jews are a people above all others and the eternal victim.
With usury, coin debasement, swindling, slavery, blackmail, slander of prominent leaders, prostitution, rum, Pharmakia, well-poisoning (Plague/Back Death), child sacrifice, pedophilia, perversion, race mixing, organ harvesting, murder, crop burning, starvation and waves of dark immigrants they worm their way though civilization and it collapses into ruin.
Yeah, it all sounds familiar.
Is the US Byzantines? Yes and no. Yes because the US has been declining in virtually every way since 1913 (Fed Reserve, income tax, depreciating the dollar, screwing Senate voting, etc.) and 1933 (screwing the gold standard, socialism under FDR, bank runs, great depression, etc.) and the 60s (degrading pop culture/art/music/literature, etc., Vietnam War, etc.) and then 1971 when Nixon took the dollar off the gold standard completely. Communism “marching through the institutions” etc., divide and rule, etc.
No, because we have guns, and the Byzantine people did not. Besides, remember that 1054 “schism” between Eastern and Western Christendoms? Hmmmmm…..And don’t just blame the Jews for that one!
Finally, Justinian and especially Theadora weren’t who everyone thinks they were. There’s a YouTube video about the torture they practiced and Procopius wrote about. Sorry I don’t have the link on hand, but look up Justinian and Theadora and Procopius on YouTube.
In other words, as with the degraded US, Byzantium deserved to…you know. Unless We the People do something about it!
Americans allowed FDR — a communist — to trick them into war and destroying the German Reich, then making the world safe for communism, after which they all came home and imagined they’d won the war… As federal goons with fixed bayonets proved otherwise.
Eustace Mullins said that the Eastern Empire kept the Jews out of political life obviously they never counted on the Venetians betraying them just like zogUSA and zoguk are betraying Europe now.
Humans can not get along, leave others alone, never initiate the use of force. America was founded on the principles of non-intervention, but was soon corrupted. Now it is the worst. This rise and fall of nations; this chaos, death, war, is the constant through history, and the mind begs to understand why.
What you need to know is that earth is a prison planet kept in constant chaos on purpose. Everything we build is in vain, as it is destroyed over and over. Civilizations rise and fall, Jews are often the responsible agent – which is why they were “chosen” by the Reptilian overlords, because earth is a prison, and they want the inmates to suffer.
Earth was chosen as a galactic prison because it is not a good planet – earth itself is unstable, constant earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts are the backdrop for endless political instability. This knowledge of our true condition come from “Alien Interview” by Lawrence Spencer, which you can read free, right now, in just 4 hours time:
http://thenewearth.org/AI_FREE_READERS-EDITION.pdf
Should you lament the fall of civilization or should you prep to survive? It can be a fatal mistake to have attachments to “your” nation, “your” civilization, “your” religion. First of all they are not “yours”. You did not create them, and neither did I. Some power mongering priest wrote your holy books, some greedy corporations wrote your laws, and now it is a cesspool of dickless trannies, cultish blood drinkers, raging climate lunatics, child stalking pedophiles, shameless liars, money grubbing jackals, gay demon actors, and outright imbeciles. So why associate with the very thing that is killing us?
I can not think of a more stupid thing than the “holy” crusades, where young European boys were sent to the “holy” land to be butchered. Why would they do such a stupid thing when Christianity was imposed and foreign to those tribes when converted. Why would you try to spread or hold onto Christianity when it was never “yours’ to begin with. Why in god’s name would you ever want to believe in some desert demon religion to begin with when in the first book Genesis you are told God damned you for what Adam did, and that you are guilty of original sin the moment you were born?
The Holy Bible is a contagion of evil ideas, like cutting your foreskin to get right withe the Lord Yahweh. The Jews are insane, and so it their book. So why do you believe in it or lament it’s fall. Good riddance say I.
Have you seen this one Yukon ? https://www.bitchute.com/video/BRizDPuLs8c4/
@ Yukon Jack
If humans did not get along to the extent you say they don’t, then we would not be here. We would have killed each other off long ago. Most of us can testify to the fact that although we may not share the same moral principles with many others, we tend still to get along, which means that we still have a great deal in common. If you accept the view that what defuses a good number of plots and conspiracies is the truth exposed, and that is why you continue blogging, then clearly you feel there is hope for humankind. This does not mean I or many others share your beliefs, but rather that we share your quest for the truth, understanding that knowledge with right belief has power to change things for the better.
This is a far different position from those who are corrupted by their wealth and power, who also know that the control of knowledge is very much the source of their wealth and power, but at the same time deliberately distort it, conceal it, and propagate false beliefs for fear that access of the people to the truth will disturb their status or ruin their plans.
Some of us tend to think that the biggest conflict of our times is between globalism and nationalism, or between centralization and decentralization, or totalitarianism in its many forms against freedom and self-determination. However, no oppressive ideology or system could long survive in any corridor of power if there was mandatory full disclosure of the relevant facts, on any issue pertaining to the basic interests and aspirations of the people the powerful exercise power over and are deemed to be in positions of trust and responsibility.
There is a world of difference between people who sincerely believe something to be true, be they mistaken or not, and those in power who deliberately lie to us, knowing and believing what they are telling us is false. There is duty to tell the truth, to disclose the facts, to others in your power in order for them to make rational decisions, and that duty is not based just on some social contract concept to “get along”. It is based on a moral obligation not seen very clearly anymore in the natural-law, dog-eat-dog, survival-of-the-fittest, might-makes-right, big-fish-eats-little-fish world of commerce and politics. Rather, it is only seen in the informed consciences of those who realize how wrong it is to mislead your fellow man from any truth you believe will help or lie you think will harm them.
One’s conscience is only able to have that function if it has a reverence for the basic rights of others which comes from a connection of their hearts not just to the holy, or He who is, but a reverence and respect for the basic rights and good of their neighbors, to all of those in proximity to their actions, realizing they they come from or also have a proximity to the same source, and ought to have the same ultimate purpose and potentiality as you attribute to themselves.
If knowledge is a power (and it is) then like a gun it may not be prudent to give it to someone to cause harm to themselves or to others, but that is no excuse for deliberately lying to others. The fact is that in these days dishonesty is the norm in the way power is wielded against those without it. The fact is that those in power habitually suppress knowledge and deliberately lie to us, evoking in their courts “public-interest immunity” mainly to hide their corruption, harms and massive crimes against us. It is not human progress but human regress and a denial of all of our efforts to lift ourselves from the law of the jungle, with universal laws based on what we truly believe to be good.
Also, it is not that we are “owed” by anything or even what we think we own which really matters. It is to which or to whom we surrender ourselves, our souls. As a Christian I keep trying, against my baser inclinations, to surrender my soul to God through Christ, and that has made all of the difference in my life from my more naturalistic selfish and pragmatic ways. I have seen the same transformation in many others.
Your creed resounds of verse from the poem Invictus which came from the sad life of the poet William Ernest Henley – 1849-1903:
“Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.”
Writer, Jon Bloom, in his 2014 article “Invictus” Redeemed, penned the following:
“”Henley wrote “Invictus” when he was 27 years old, having battled Tuberculosis of the bone for years, to which he had lost a leg and which eventually killed him at age 53. He was an avowed atheist, so the only place he could look for strength was himself. He didn’t believe there was any larger purpose to his pain. It was just “the bludgeonings of chance.” His only hope was to take his bludgeonings like a man, which to him meant a stoic resolve never to surrender.
So Henley wrote “Invictus” as a poetic middle finger to the cosmos — and if God did exist (see the last stanza) to him, too. ….
“Invictus” is decent poetry, but as a declaration of cosmic independence it is, frankly, a delusional fantasy. Even if God didn’t exist, it would be a fantasy. In what possible way could Henley reasonably claim to be the master of his fate, being subject to a thousand forces beyond his control? ….
In the early part of the 20th Century, Dorothy Day responded to Henley’s manifesto with this poem that she titled, “Conquered”
…
Beyond this place of sin and tears,
That Life with Him and His the Aid,
That, spite the menace of the years,
Keeps, and will keep me unafraid.
I have no fear though straight the gate:
He cleared from punishment the scroll.
Christ is the Master of my fate!
Christ is the Captain of my soul! “”
Bloom concludes in saying, “Supernatural and natural evil will beat us bloody at times (literally and metaphorically). Against such evil, by all righteous means, stand firm (Ephesians 6:13). …
To have an invictus soul is not heroic. It is unbounded foolishness. But to have a soul conquered by the greatest love that exists (John 15:13), that then by God’s grace can withstand the worst that evil can throw at us and be more than conquerors, and then know eternal joy, that is a life worth living. ”
https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/invictus-redeeme
they had to much judaized christian
software in the head !
What’s this “WE” Whiteman? The West and the US got sabotaged by the (((Termites))) that thought after stealing everything they would just scurry off with their booty to Chyna after scuttling the US et. el. The only flaw in their plan was that after selling out all our jobs and wealth to the Chinks (((they))) got double crossed are are now stuck on a sinking ship of their own making. So your analogy to Byzantium is somewhat non sequitir.
When you see this: “PRAISE THE LORD!” who or what is this “Lord”?
It is the political authority empowered to rule by the owners of the planet. A lord has slaves.
You, the little guy, is the slave of these lords, be them blood drinking cultists, or off world Reptilians, or church officials.
They make the rules and you are forced to follow them. They levy the tax you must pay. You pray to them, you worship them, they are your owners, your masters.
A free man stops this insane behavior and wakes up in this matrix. The free man no longer views child raping political scum as superior.
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LORD’S PRAYER DECODED by Yukon Jack:
“Our Father in heaven, (alien mother fuckers in heaven above)
hallowed be your name. (whoreshipping the space devils as God)
Your kingdom come, (space empire on earth)
your will be done, (alien will on earth is one world authority, i.e. One World Government, New World Order, World Communism, the Jewish World Order, Agenda 21, Global Warming carbon taxes, etc.)
on earth as it is in heaven. (empire on earth just like in heaven – we build it for them when we accept our slave status to God)
Give us this day our daily bread, (like domesticated dogs we are begging for our daily bowl of food)
and forgive us our debts, (we are indebted slaves who must work for their daily bread, no other specie does this)
as we also have forgiven our debtors, (in order for us to have a workable society we must forgive debt – which is really communism, or that the individual is enslaved by the collective, hive mentality)
And lead us not into temptation, (be a good working taxpaying slave, don’t be distracted by the desires of the flesh)
but deliver us from evil.” (the system is evil by design so it is impossible to be delivered from evil when you are in hell)
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What you must wrap your mind around is how you, a hairless bipedal hominen, ended up on an ice age planet, who is indoctrinated in some church, praying to some invisible god, who lives in the heavens.
Our existence is absurd on the face of it. We are the only specie on earth with a holy book, we are the only specie that has to pray to God, we are the only specie, which is so miserable in existence it imagines an afterlife heaven just to get through the day.
Do you think Bigfoot gives a shit about “god” or is worried about paying rent?
yes, we are the Byzantines of today.
JEWS + THEIR MASONS INSIDE THE
GATES OPENING TO INVADERS !
I see it this way :
before 1000years the polynesian natives settled
on inhabitated islands, started cultivating, everybody
got his terrain of land + lived quite like communism.
when overpopulation created warior leaders they
fought against neighbour islands or (seldom) they
created a Tabu believe system limiting the freedom
of the people . it was a strict tabu system, limiting
sometime plants, fishes, women for consumption .
so, probably our insidious jewish WEF/JWO rulers
have this kind of system (for THEIR advantage) in
view limiting our freedom tyrannicaly + steering us .
BE FERTIL+MULTIPLY; MAKE EARTH YOUR
SUBJECT for them but not for us goyim.
America has become what it conquered in WWII. It is now a fascist Nazi State. It has even allied itself with the fascist Nazis in Ukraine. Add the WOKE and other deviant behavior and the division of groups bickering with each other. Finally the American government (and many world governments) has aligned itself with the fascists of the World Economic Forum in their attempt to conquer the world through bio-weapons called vaccines and wars with the goal of reducing the population by 90% and using the survivors as slaves.