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To Bring Down a House of Cards

The Victor Davis Hanson Show

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Antiquity - A History of the West

The western kingdom was, you know, there were goths and viscots and vandals and huns. And then all of a sudden isnamed justinian comes and mperor. He destroys the vandal kingdom in north africa, southern italy, sicily heas at ravenna. Thereare still byzantine churches there. Had the great plague not happened at constantinople, that wiped out half a million people, you could argue they would have e recaptured all italy. Narsis did his best, the eunuch general, and they would have probably got t spain,. But it and that's hard for us to accept, because they doubled down

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