Modern war isn’t just hell on civilians caught in the storming of a city, it’s a dysgenic slaughter of generations of fighting men, the aristos, the best combined with firebombing the mothers of the next generation from the air.
None of which would be conceivable without the death of the heroic...
True, there is a black legend of peasant chattel slavery, but what really broke the European spirit was early modernity and the collapse of living standards due to the rise of liberal capitalism and the destruction of the old privileges of the peasantry in favor of setting everyone 'free' to be...
Nah, Medieval peoples were hardly obedient and notoriously difficult to get going in one direction, just look at a map of the old German states. The problem in Europe is American occupation and cultural colonization.
I have long held that the ironic future history will be a Reconquista of Western Europe from the Caliphate by legions Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, and Hungarians in black uniforms, with Russian Imperial officers, advisors, and equipment.
Everyone is in the habit of doing what the authorities tell them to do, that's what authorities are for. Is it possible for Europeans to let go of their past grudges and work together against American Imperialism and the Camp of the Saints or no?