The War State

Iranians don't learn about Alexander the Great at all because they're Iranian. Genghis Khan, we, my dad said like just crazy how many people he went through. He said his whole goal when he took over one village was to be so fucking awful to them and massacre them so thoroughly. The next village would hear about it and be like, let's just not even. Let's surrender before they even come in. If you fight, you're going to get slaughtered.

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