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Well, that kinda depends on which person you talk about. There were plenty of people in the 1800's who enjoyed far fewer rights and freedoms than the average citizen today. In fact, the majority of people had more limits on their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness in that time than they do...

I disagree that it's a derail. We're talking about how various groups could or do fit in to the premise of cyclic history. However, it's @FriedCFour's thread so in the interest of civility I'll ask their opinion before continuing?

So, your only response to actual concrete figures is ideological indignation? How about some more though: European NATO spending without the US amounts to approximately 300 billion, again that's something like 5 times Russian spending. With the US, NATO spending is just about 1 trillion. Against...

Yeah, and we've seen what happens when they're not realistic with their spending. They simply can't win that contest. If they increased their spending 1,000% it would still be less than the US alone spends, and it would represent nearly half their GDP compared to less than 5%. America could...

Russian defence spending is less than a 10th of the US spending. It's only 50% more than Australia, despite representing about twice as much as a percentage of their GDP. They have their nukes, and a few flashy toys, but their numbers are far too low to be strategically meaningful, and the bulk...

Except that's not really true. Human nature remains the same, but the environment those people operate in is so vastly different that pretending we can draw exact parallels to past events (I mean, seriously, there's people saying Individual A of modernity is person Z from antiquity, and how...