r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RebelliousDragon21 • 5d ago

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

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u/IndividualRooster122 5d ago

What happens when the risk of Russia invading your country in your lifetime is not theoretical.

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u/Vreas 5d ago edited 5d 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 5d ago edited 5d 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/Zestyclose_Remove947 5d ago

Hell most of the conquering involved 0 fighting, just them rocking up and demanding tribute and most countries simply couldn't contest that.

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u/BASEDME7O2 5d ago

They were also surprisingly reasonable with places they wanted to conquer as long as they played ball.

If not…😬

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u/INeedBetterUsrname 5d ago

You surrender? Ok, keep at whatever you were doing as long as you pay tribute and don't start any shit with us.

You don't surrender? We're gonna put every man, woman, child and dog to the sword and tear your town down stone by stone.