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and then the Russian Tsardom as part of the era of the Roman Empire, which they are not in any meaningful sense.

Are you saying that Vladimir Putin is not the legitimate successor of Gaius Julius Caesar?

Titus, fetch the cross! Dimitry, open the window!

So where do we draw the line then?

I’d draw the line at the Holy Roman Empire, whose name itself is a big lie composed of three individual lies. Neither holy, nor Roman, nor a proper united empire.

The bloody Sultanate of Rum has more legitimacy of being a successor to the Roman empire than the self-professed Holy Roman Empire.

Just wait until you learn about Alexander the bad and Alexander the terrible.

The similarity I see is that not being able to wield the authority granted by either concept is proof enough that you don’t have that authority in the first place.

The concept isn’t that dissimilar to the ancient Roman concept of imperium.

oh, the bad F word, much worse than feck…

would continue on to their destination in Japanese waters

That journey was an epic one, full of insane shenanigans so bad that the other fleet they were supposed to reinforce did even try to mislead them about their whereabouts at one point in order to be spared that kind of “reinforcement”.

Look up “2nd Pacific squadron”, there is plenty of material on them online, especially some very hilarious Youtube videos.

One reason for that journey becoming a prolonged shitshow of shenanigans was the anticipated possibility of the UK denying them passage through the Suez Canal as a result the Dogger Bank Incident, so they went all the way around Africa.

In ancient Rome, he would have gotten in trouble for making that garum, because while they loved the stuff, the Romans hated the smell of it being made so much that making garum in residential areas (or even within city limits) was prohibited.

Stand back, I’m summoning Bastet…

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yeet

Caesar had a soft spot for tactical bridge building, he did that a lot during his campaigns.

The modern day Rhine has been heavily canalised in a huge effort in the 19th century, back in Roman days, it used to be 3-4 times wider than nowadays.

Only when they are become death, destroyer of worlds.