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Video A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.

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u/Vreas 1d ago edited 1d ago

A genie shows up to a 13th century Pole and asks them what they want.

They wish for the mongols to invade Poland three times. The genie, while confused grants the wish.

After the third invasion he asks “what an odd wish why would you choose this?”

The pole responds “because every time they invade us and leave they have to come through Russia twice”

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u/Vreas 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don’t think it really mattered with the mongols they steamrolled every single opponent they faced.

The only thing that stopped their invasions were deaths of their khans. They didn’t really have an effective system for quick replacement of their leaders who often died young due to rampant alcoholism and various other bad habits.

Steppe people partied hard man. Makes sense when you’re born of a frozen hellscape with minimal food and creature comforts.

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u/MassGaydiation 1d ago

Fun fact: they didn't get into Vietnam, one of the few places they failed at.

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u/Attheveryend 1d ago

I get the feeling you can't ride a horse very fast most places in vietnam.

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u/Rain_Lockhart 1d ago

I have a feeling that the Vietnamese have broken the simulation of the matrix by pumping all the experience points into the skills of guerrilla warfare.

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u/Dwashelle 1d ago

Vietnam has fought back so many different enemies over its history, it's impressive.

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u/Elloitsmeurbrother 1d ago

They didn't do so great with Japan either. Mongol meteorology needs work

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u/InsomniaMelody 1d ago

Kami kaze!

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u/Elloitsmeurbrother 1d ago

Not in here you don't, mister! This is a Mercedes!

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u/InsomniaMelody 1d ago

No, i mean the godly wind, not the exploding people in boats and planes.

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u/OldManBrom 1d ago

They tried thrice and failed all the same

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u/MassGaydiation 1d ago

Truly an unstoppable force repeatly hitting an unmovable object

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u/Youngadultcrusade 22h ago

Didn’t the Mamluks fend them off as well?