WDF 30: The Long War VII

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Episode 7 of the Long War hits us like a Hungarian-shaped bang, as we are introduced first to the Sultan's method of war making as the resources, men and monies were gathered together by spring 1683, but also to the major incentive which moved the Ottomans to make war.In this episode I explain why I believe the Ottomans chose to attack the Habsburgs after 20 years of peace. The Hungarian situation was simply too ideal to let go, as the nemesis of the Habsburg rule in Hungary, a noble by the name of Imre Thokoly, began his rebellion against Vienna.Calling upon the Turk for support, Thokoly's actions and rebellions seriously contradicted the idea that the Habsburg-Ottoman clash was one of Christian vs Muslim, but that's not all we have to startle you with! Get bonus content on Patreon

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0:00.0	Imagine winning 15 million pounds on Christmas Day.
0:05.5	The 15 million pound Lotto jackpot must be won on Christmas Day.
0:10.7	There's still time to get in the draw.
0:13.1	Lotto, will you be the next millionaire?
0:16.1	The National Lottery, rules and procedures apply.
0:18.5	Players must be 18 or over.
0:22.3	History is very important. History is so, so freaking important. Do you know how important
0:28.0	history is? I went on YouTube, I went on YouTube and I was looking at some documentary of, about
0:34.0	Hitler or the Nazis or something, because I just find that here interesting.
0:38.5	Obviously, it's something you watch while you eat or whatever.
0:41.1	That's just the way I like to do things.
0:43.5	More to the point, I followed a comment, a link in a comment, and then I got down a rabbit hole.
0:48.7	And then the next thing I knew, I was watching documentaries on YouTube that were saying that
0:52.3	the Nazis weren't so bad after all, that Hitler weren't so bad after all, that Hitler
0:55.6	wasn't so bad after all, that Hitler was a good guy, that it was all just this big Jewish
1:00.0	conspiracy. I'm not joking, these documentaries are out there, you can go and find them. It was just
1:05.0	some big Jewish conspiracy and David Irving's going to save us all from the lies and wow, I just, I felt I actually had to go for a walk.
1:14.3	I felt a bit sick.
1:15.4	So when people go and tell you that history doesn't matter, when people tell you,
1:19.6	like next time you tell someone I'm listening to a history podcast and they say,
1:22.8	ooh, what's the point?
1:23.8	That's never actually happened to me, by the way, but just in case it does, I can tell you now, there's a good reason for it. You're educating yourself now about an era in history
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