In opposition to one of the few mutuals whose opinion I care about, I shall now be doing a hot takes challenge, but exclusively in the form of factional beef, using historical nations as stand ins for actual people. 1 like for one hot take. https://twitter.com/TKispeter/status/1254526985713442816

The Qara Koyunlu need to realise that the Timurids aren't their friends just because they dislike the Anatolian Beyliks.

Hanging out with Genghis Khan as he pillages your nation, isn't going to shield you from his merciless horde when they arrive at your city and you refuse to surrender.

Athens needs to get over the idea that the weak suffer what they must, because that might get applied to them and they won't like it.

If the Etruscans had the ruthlessness of the Romans, they would have been the dominant power in the Italian peninsular for as good as forever.

If I wanted to be King of France, I would simply not have become the King of Poland-Lithuania on the condition that I wouldn't take the French throne.

Turkey should have acted upon its strong preference for the Allies in WW2 even if neutrality made Ismet Inonu feel good.

A follow on: Turkey was right to punish openly pro-Nazi/Axis elements in its military and others should learn from that lesson.

If I was as bathed in blood as Vlad Tepes, I probably wouldn't have constantly reminded people about my blood thirst by publicly impaling people.

Giving up being a monk to become a military leader seems like a good idea because, you might get to be ruler of Japan, but it's probably not going to work in the long run if you allow your subordinates to stab you in the back.

If I didn't want to be accused of being in a secret alliance with the Ottoman Empire, I probably wouldn't keep getting caught having meetings with their foreign minister.