GreekIslandGirl wrote:supporttheunderdog wrote:
was it not a Greek , Alexander the great who sought to conquer the entire known world ? If its OK for him is it not OK for everyone else?
This is how you expose yourself as an amoral and ignorant prig.
Alexander the Great set out to defend Greece from the Persians, who were directly attacking Greece for several decades and then built a barrier to prevent further attacks.
Did the British Empire set out because Britain was
invaded by Sri Lanka, or India or Malaysia or Cyprus or Australia or ... or .... or!
Besides, over 2000 years had passed between the work of Alexander and the crimes of the British Empire, which continue to this day! Do you see nothing wrong with that? Is it still OK to hang people because a few centuries ago it was common practice? By your reckoning, you would thing it's just the ticket!
The history of Greece and Persia makes quite interesting reading with both Athens and Sparta competing for power within what is now Greece and each using the Persians for support, ultimately both losing out to Thebes, and then to the Macedonians who in a series of military campaigns took control of Greece under Phillip and then Alexander.
At that point there had been 53 years of peace with Persia,
not the several decades of attacks you claim, until Phillip launched an outright aggressive war of conquest , not a preemptive strike as you claim, which indeed shows the faults of the Hellenic propaganda that masquerades as history.
I for my part have long recognised the evils of European Imperialism from the 16th to mid 20th Century. I otherwise think it is you who use Ancient history to try to undo modern realities by selectively turning the clock back to a period of your choosing in justifying your blinkered view of History.
