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Whom the locals lept at with a desperate passion. They knew a good deal when they saw it.

As far as I can tell, that's what you're saying. There's a reason why I'm so supprised at your words. And annoyed, but I'm used to people blaming random historical groups for their own shortcomings.

Depending on the locale? Some certainly are. Mead and some wines are made in some euro monestaries. Bankers? None. Traders? Few, if any. Industrialists? Effectively none, but there's some evidence of master craftsmen in a number of places. All of this is meaningless, however. Are you really...

...... You have an insanely low opinion of, well, most of humanity, I see. You really don't think they could learn something so obvious? That some of them didn't already know it? That there weren't books and experts avalable? If your leaders wanted it, it was everywhere. No, they may have...

.... I think, right now, it's important to point out that as things have gone? Everything's on the downswing. It we could have frozen our govenment expansion even 50 years ago, kept the values of 70 years ago, we would be so much happier it's insane. This is the begining of the end. It...

Depends how low we're talking. You could likely do it with 1980's tech, now we know how.

Nope, fracking changes that. There's hundreds, possibly thousands, of years worth in that. Frankly, bio-desel exists, inefficent as it is.

Then it doesn't matter. It's just another faith, on a planet full of them.

No, there's enough grudging acceptance, mostly in the officals. That's where the primary issue with Trump is, too. The officals are the ones who are most against him, and it was largely the mass of the populace that saw him as President. That's why you have officals lying to his face, when...

You skipped something, I think.

Because the general picture can be divined, even if the details can't. Because the best way to derail a bad path is to point it out, and point out a better way. And because we like to talk about it, at least some of us.

Yup. But, things are never like that. There's always people who will respond, in ways that will change things. It's why, when the asked all sorts of folk, ranging from Sci-fi authors to top academics, what the future would be like from the 1920's, they got all sorts of responses, and all of...

Perhaps. I'll even say "likely". But.... Right now? With the leaders we have now? We can't do that. Not want, flat out can't. So, assuming you're looking at things right, I'd say Russia wins, or, rather, China wins. For a while, at least. There were ways to avoid it, ways I, or even the...

Funny, funny spelling mistake.

Limited the size of their families, yes. Fear of child birth issues? No proof of that. I'm told, towards the end, they had a lot of sexual degenerancy, crossdressing and female empowerment. Much like today. Same reason we're not having kids today.

Anybody who says that is wrong, that's for sure. The suggestion here is he's more like an earlier figure in Rome, who tried to rejuvinate Rome and failed, because he stuck to the rules and his enemies didn't. Much like the current Deep State is using lawfare against him, and imprisioning...

He's tried to rebuild the Russian Orthodox Church, amongst other things. Not too sure how that worked, but still. I'm looking at China, and I think it's in a similar state. The West is just proping it up.

There's a lot said about the Crusades, how bad they were for the Islamic world. But, the Islamics had been attacking the Christian world for centuries before that. Taking cities, entire kingdoms and more. Raids into distant parts of Europe for slaves and more. Not a simple picture. Although...

There's a difference between the "elite" and the People.

As far as I know, there have been no long lasting Communist states. None. Even Nth Korea isn't one, now. (Power and position handed down from father to son, they're a royal family. Big no-no in Communism.) Communism doesn't work. It doesn't work so very much that after a few years it slips...