Mark Sleboda is, as always, superb. As for the other guy, well, the best I can say for him is that he is “typical” and leave it at that 🙂
A Legacy Shaped by War and Reinvention Europe today stands like an aging performer on a global stage it once commanded. Its architecture still stirs awe, its philosophy continues to shape international law, and its revolutions echo through the foundations of modern governance. Yet beneath the surface lies a continent in quiet decline. From the trenches of the Thirty Years’ War to the red carpets of the Congress of Vienna, from the carnage of Verdun to the cold arithmetic of ...