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   eisai (eisai@freespeechextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 17-Dec-2023 04:12:15 JST eisai

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   > I do not believe this to be the case. Trade is trade.
   
   Trade is not everything. It’s just one motive. Others may range from “why ally with someone I can subdue” to “my court astronomer said that the next week is favourable for attacking fortresses”. Charles V listened to vassals (the Livonian Order), who were on the ground doing business. He also had the Pope to listen to, and Popes have been declaring eastern Christianity a heresy since the crusaders “accidentally” ravaged Constantinople in 1204. So, if you’re a proper Catholic king, it’s one thing when your merchants trade with whoever (even heretics), and this is profitable for you. But if you, as a king, make an official union with them, it’s a completely different thing. Charles V believed more to the people from his circles. Letters, which reflect his sympathy towards Russia, are of dubious origin, as far as I remember. So, I believe, he might consider a military union useful – and potentially he could expand that with other kinds of support, but the closest circle (plus Pope) meant more to him.
   
   > That is three empires behaving differently in one example.
   
   Truth, it’s a different situation and different countries. If the question about similarity (why different countries at different times should think alike) is still bothering you, there’s saying “circumstances shape the man”, – or so sounds the materialist postulate. Meaning that what you do depends on what you perceive from your surroundings and determine from previous experience. As long as the circumstances remain similar, they produce similarly thinking people. Whether the elite “goes with the flow” or “thinks out of frame” depends on the will and the entertainment which one finds while being in power. But what a particular person decides, rests on typical human laziness, willing to take risks and inextinguishable desire to bring changes forth. That one was born to be an elite doesn’t yet grant these qualities. So, thinking out of frame is to be expected seldom.
   
   > Ha, I thought that was her but I remember her
   
   I only remember her thanks to some anon posting Morning Musume.
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