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🗓️ 3 June 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome back to part two this episode is on blunders part two of blunders part two |
0:07.6 | Let's get off of it |
0:09.6 | It's a tart poo of the lunders. |
0:15.0 | I didn't think about it. |
0:17.0 | Sorry, it's just a one big bloody blunder after another. |
0:21.0 | Oh, yeah, I believe taking you back to 1788. Now Austria is led by the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph the second. |
0:42.0 | He's the ruler, incidentally, appears in the film Amadeus. |
0:46.6 | And Austria found itself at war with the Ottoman Empire. |
0:49.3 | Now at the time, Europe was absolutely ravaged by conflict. So let's have a sort of top of the box |
0:56.6 | camp down. The Ottomans already at war were the Russian Empire. Russians, also at |
1:01.7 | war with the Swedes who were in turn at war with Denmark and Norway. |
1:06.0 | In short, it was a fucking nightmare. |
1:08.0 | Europe was... |
1:10.0 | It was chaos. |
1:12.0 | Was anyone not at war? |
1:14.0 | Was it real bragging rights if you were to war? |
1:16.0 | It would have been so relaxing to not be at war, wouldn't it? |
1:18.0 | You be like, well, that's just concerning the economy. |
1:20.0 | Like the isles of silly were the only places they weren't at war or something. |
1:24.0 | Now the Austrians fear that either the Prussians or the French would intervene on behalf of the |
1:28.7 | Ottomans. And in any case, there's already a rebellion underway in the lower countries, the part that we know |
1:34.2 | called Belgium, which might in turn bring British intervention. |
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