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  1. ΝΟΥΜΜΟΣ: ΗΡΑΚΛΕΙΟΣ ΠΙΣΤΟΣ ΕΝ ΧΡΙΣΤΩ…+SVPER ASPIDEM ET BASILISCVM AMBVLAVIT #SPQR #Byzantine
    youtu.be/uu1XMaDY3Pk

  2. 14th century AD Varangian Guard in Byzantine service

  3. Allegedly, #Prighozhin’s march on #Moscow has ended in a deal brokered by #Lukashenko, in which #Wagner Group forces will head to #Belarus and … become Lukashenko’s #Varangian Guard, or something? Assuming of course #Putin doesn’t wait for them to get strung out on the road and bomb them all to bits.

    I can’t help but be struck by how antiquated all this feels. The Varangian Guard reference above is deliberate—the whole thing is #Byzantine in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of #Belisarius and #Justinian. Yes, I know I’m mixing up periods, and the analogy is inexact in all kinds of ways: history doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.

    #Kings and #emperors and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way #modern states make #war—even though #Ukraine may well be the first modern war of the twenty-first century, through future eyes. Something older, more visceral, rising from ancient slumber.

    Hell of a time to be alive. I suppose that’s always true.

  4. Allegedly, #Prighozhin’s march on #Moscow has ended in a deal brokered by #Lukashenko, in which #Wagner Group forces will head to #Belarus and … become Lukashenko’s #Varangian Guard, or something? Assuming of course #Putin doesn’t wait for them to get strung out on the road and bomb them all to bits.

    I can’t help but be struck by how antiquated all this feels. The Varangian Guard reference above is deliberate—the whole thing is #Byzantine in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of #Belisarius and #Justinian. Yes, I know I’m mixing up periods, and the analogy is inexact in all kinds of ways: history doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.

    #Kings and #emperors and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way #modern states make #war—even though #Ukraine may well be the first modern war of the twenty-first century, through future eyes. Something older, more visceral, rising from ancient slumber.

    Hell of a time to be alive. I suppose that’s always true.

  5. Allegedly, #Prighozhin’s march on #Moscow has ended in a deal brokered by #Lukashenko, in which #Wagner Group forces will head to #Belarus and … become Lukashenko’s #Varangian Guard, or something? Assuming of course #Putin doesn’t wait for them to get strung out on the road and bomb them all to bits.

    I can’t help but be struck by how antiquated all this feels. The Varangian Guard reference above is deliberate—the whole thing is #Byzantine in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of #Belisarius and #Justinian. Yes, I know I’m mixing up periods, and the analogy is inexact in all kinds of ways: history doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.

    #Kings and #emperors and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way #modern states make #war—even though #Ukraine may well be the first modern war of the twenty-first century, through future eyes. Something older, more visceral, rising from ancient slumber.

    Hell of a time to be alive. I suppose that’s always true.

  6. Allegedly, #Prighozhin’s march on #Moscow has ended in a deal brokered by #Lukashenko, in which #Wagner Group forces will head to #Belarus and … become Lukashenko’s #Varangian Guard, or something? Assuming of course #Putin doesn’t wait for them to get strung out on the road and bomb them all to bits.

    I can’t help but be struck by how antiquated all this feels. The Varangian Guard reference above is deliberate—the whole thing is #Byzantine in both the original and modern senses of that word. Shades of #Belisarius and #Justinian. Yes, I know I’m mixing up periods, and the analogy is inexact in all kinds of ways: history doesn’t repeat itself, but sometimes it rhymes.

    #Kings and #emperors and shifting personal loyalties, not cold-blooded calculation of national interests. It’s not the way #modern states make #war—even though #Ukraine may well be the first modern war of the twenty-first century, through future eyes. Something older, more visceral, rising from ancient slumber.

    Hell of a time to be alive. I suppose that’s always true.

  7. @Renegade_GDI
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    I am a fan of #Viking history, and learned a couple of years ago that the #Varangian #Rus' presence was not limited to being the #VarangianGuard of the #Byzantine emperor.

    Apart from that, in my understanding #Sveinald #Ingvarsson's (Sviatoslav I, aka #Sviatoslav the Brave, Grand Prince of #Kiev*) fascinating...

    @EU_ISS

  8. @Renegade_GDI
    1/

    I am a fan of #Viking history, and learned a couple of years ago that the #Varangian #Rus' presence was not limited to being the #VarangianGuard of the #Byzantine emperor.

    Apart from that, in my understanding #Sveinald #Ingvarsson's (Sviatoslav I, aka #Sviatoslav the Brave, Grand Prince of #Kiev*) fascinating...

    @EU_ISS

  9. @Renegade_GDI
    1/

    I am a fan of #Viking history, and learned a couple of years ago that the #Varangian #Rus' presence was not limited to being the #VarangianGuard of the #Byzantine emperor.

    Apart from that, in my understanding #Sveinald #Ingvarsson's (Sviatoslav I, aka #Sviatoslav the Brave, Grand Prince of #Kiev*) fascinating...

    @EU_ISS

  10. @Renegade_GDI
    1/

    I am a fan of #Viking history, and learned a couple of years ago that the #Varangian #Rus' presence was not limited to being the #VarangianGuard of the #Byzantine emperor.

    Apart from that, in my understanding #Sveinald #Ingvarsson's (Sviatoslav I, aka #Sviatoslav the Brave, Grand Prince of #Kiev*) fascinating...

    @EU_ISS

  11. @Renegade_GDI
    1/

    I am a fan of #Viking history, and learned a couple of years ago that the #Varangian #Rus' presence was not limited to being the #VarangianGuard of the #Byzantine emperor.

    Apart from that, in my understanding #Sveinald #Ingvarsson's (Sviatoslav I, aka #Sviatoslav the Brave, Grand Prince of #Kiev*) fascinating...

    @EU_ISS

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