Explain the AH Quote

"The Persians and Greeks were completely total opposites back in ancient times, with the empire to the east being considered a tolerant and multicultural place, while the city-states to the west were known to be victims of their own xenophobia and jingoism, both via diplomacy and warfare, words and weapons. But 2500 years later, those who are aware of these facts can only look upon what the two civilizations have become today, what their countries that have taken up their mantle as their descendants, and ask; what happened?"
Vinlander journalist Mads Halfdan, speaking on the current great powers of the Near East: the Social Confederation of Greece, a socialist-libertarian republic with large Muslim and Jewish minorities, competing with the Imperial State of Iran, an absolute monarchy of the most despotic kind.

I fear what we have found beyond this sea: this civilization is unholy, their shipwrights canny, and their rulers ambitious. And now, god help us, they know we exist.
 
I fear what we have found beyond this sea: this civilization is unholy, their shipwrights canny, and their rulers ambitious. And now, god help us, they know we exist.
King of Spain Alfonso VIII, reacting to an Aztec warship appearing from the horizon. The Aztec Empire had a long and successful history of European colonization.
Under the ground. They're coming for us from under the ground! It can't possibly get any worse.
 
King of Spain Alfonso VIII, reacting to an Aztec warship appearing from the horizon. The Aztec Empire had a long and successful history of European colonization.
Under the ground. They're coming for us from under the ground! It can't possibly get any worse.
German soldier on the eve of the italian invasion of bavaria in the italo german war. This war was the first time underground warfare was used in a wide scale

"The only thing that matter to us kenyan is that we get to invade somalia and kick that idiot bare in the ass all the way to the indian ocean where hopefully a shark ate him"
 
The only thing that matter to us kenyan is that we get to invade somalia and kick that idiot bare in the ass all the way to the indian ocean where hopefully a shark ate him"
Jomo Kenyatta, Prime Minister of Kenya, 1961, on the Commonwealth Invasion of Italian East Africa. Kenyatta personally despised the Governor Valerio Borghese, who had Somali rebels beheaded and their heads displayed at the border.

"Scotch Borderers, Settler Cavaliers, Baltimore's Fencibles and Sicilian cutthroats. Hardly a drop of English blood in the Royal Army, bar that they spill on their stirrups and breeches."
 
Jomo Kenyatta, Prime Minister of Kenya, 1961, on the Commonwealth Invasion of Italian East Africa. Kenyatta personally despised the Governor Valerio Borghese, who had Somali rebels beheaded and their heads displayed at the border.

"Scotch Borderers, Settler Cavaliers, Baltimore's Fencibles and Sicilian cutthroats. Hardly a drop of English blood in the Royal Army, bar that they spill on their stirrups and breeches."
Quote by the Duke of Wellington in 1812, upon seeing the rabble that formed much of the Royal Army of the British Empire in the Peninsular campaign of the Napoleonic War. These soldiers were often low-quality because the British Parliament had low hopes for the Peninsular campaign at first. There were also Portuguese and Spanish allied regiments, but the entire campaign was fraught with internecine conflict, hence the quote by Wellington. Much of these rabble were not English by origin, but Wellington had the unenviable task of turning them into a real army. Through strict discipline and capable administration, this eventually did come to pass, leading to several victories over the Grand Armee of Napoleon in Portugal and Spain.

"Our country stands!"
"What do you mean your country stands?"
" It broke before the people did!"
"It still broke".
 

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"Our country stands!"
"What do you mean your country stands?"
" It broke before the people did!"
"It still broke".
French President Gaul Mittermond to the Spanish King Alfonso X during the signing of the Treaty of Bilbao to end the Franco-Spanish War.

"The NATO forces rolled into Serbia, hoping that the common Serbs would join them in overthrowing the regime in Belgrade. However, that was not what happened - they ended up encountering resistance - which was both much more numerous and much more fierce than anticipated. Just to make things worse for the alliance, Russia threatened to intervene if they did not withdraw within 30 days!"
 
French President Gaul Mittermond to the Spanish King Alfonso X during the signing of the Treaty of Bilbao to end the Franco-Spanish War.

"The NATO forces rolled into Serbia, hoping that the common Serbs would join them in overthrowing the regime in Belgrade. However, that was not what happened - they ended up encountering resistance - which was both much more numerous and much more fierce than anticipated. Just to make things worse for the alliance, Russia threatened to intervene if they did not withdraw within 30 days!"
ABC nightline news report on the NATO intervention on the yugislav crisis. Yugoslavia was thrown into a civil war when a nationalist serbian coup was staged and killed the leader josip bros tito this lead the yugoslav goverment even though communist to ask help from NATO (yugoslave have been reliant on nato aid for its modernisation as such its armed forces was mostly equiped with western equipment such as F4-Phantom,Zastava made FAL/AK hybrid,west german submarine etc).

The coup which was supported by most of the warsaw pact and obviously moscow was so swift that they manage to kill half the minister and govermemt official in a matter of hours (this was later known as the day of blood in yugoslavia) and by april 10th the next day the capital fell anf the armed forces on retreat this lead NATO under the order of president rockefeller,west german king ferdinand and british pm lord callaghan to launch an invasion forces staged to liberate yugoslavia.

The attact started when turkish and italian planes bombarded the capital with mustard gas and followed by british and west german paratrooper landing near the bosnian border to help the besieged yugoslav troops and on the very next day american tanks rolled into the serbian seccecionist held land under the command of general general bob kerney (A veteran of the liberation of vietnam) this homever was met with a super stiff resistance and apparent warsaw pact involvement as evidanced by a downed romanian helicopter.

After 1 month of brutal fighting they finally entered belgrade only to be met with harsh fighting in which half of belgrade was reduced to rubble and the mangled body of josip bros tito was recovered, the russian seeing their plans in ruins threatened to invade turkey and georgia (the country not the state) homever the presence of turkish missile,georgian minefield,japanese cruiser and american bomber made them not to react in any way and on the 23rd of november the rebel finally lay down their arms and russia having been humiliated by NATO retracted tjeir statement this coupled with the emergence of a mikhail gorbachev led to the soviet civil war of 1985.

"You smell something?"
"all i smell is puerto rican rum and america ciggarete"
"yes i know i mean this is a shipping ware-" (explosion sound)
 

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"You smell something?"
"all i smell is puerto rican rum and america ciggarete"
"yes i know i mean this is a shipping ware-" (explosion sound)
Dialogue caught on a security camera on Dock 13 in the port of San Augustine in the Dominio de Florida. This was caught between a Floridian Customs & Inventory inspector and Captain of the Aquila-5 cargo ship. The crew of the Aquila-5 had been infiltrated by Puerto Rican-based anti-imperialist rebel group Victoria de la Gente, or VG for short. This was the first cross-Caribbean offense that the VG took against the Spanish Empire. The explosion killed 50 crew members, both rebels and actual crew members, and multiple Floridian officials. The attack lead to direct rule from Madrid and the Spanish crown on Florida along with investigative military cooperation between Spanish Florida, the Georgia Commonwealth and the République du Tejas.

"And now... we wait..."
"Wait for what?"
"For the final bell to toll."
 
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Dialogue caught on a security camera on Dock 13 in the port of St. Augustine in the Dominio de Florida. This was caught between a Floridian Customs & Inventory inspector and Captain of the Aquila-5 cargo ship. The crew of the Aquila-5 had been infiltrated by Puerto Rican-based anti-imperialist rebel group Victoria de la Gente, or VG for short. This was the first cross-Caribbean offense that the VG took against the Spanish Empire. The explosion killed 50 crew members, both rebels and actual creReplyw members, and multiple Floridian officials. The attack lead to direct rule from Madrid along with military cooperation between Spanish Florida, the Georgia Commonwealth and the République du Tejas.

"And now... we wait..."
"Wait for what?"
"For the final bell to toll."
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, late 1916 as German, Austrian and Persian armies crushed all resistance before them. The "final bell" would toll a mere month later when the last of Russia's increasingly weak armies was routed near Petrograd, prompting a general collapse in state authority and the murder of the royal family by revolutionaries.

"The city was aflame everywhere he looked. For the first time in hundreds of years, Rome was facing doom -this time not from outside powers, but an internal struggle."
 
"The city was aflame everywhere he looked. For the first time in hundreds of years, Rome was facing doom -this time not from outside powers, but an internal struggle."
From Give Me Back My Empire! a juvenile historical novel written by Harry Turtledove, taking place during the Crisis of the Third Century. Gustavus- the narrator character and son of a senator- says this when a fight between the Praetorian Guard and the Second Legion sets part of the city on fire.

"Hi! It's Vince with ShamWow!, the quick and easy way to protect yourself from scams! From ponzi schemes to multi-level marketing, I'll explain how they work and how to avoid them!"
 
From Give Me Back My Empire! a juvenile historical novel written by Harry Turtledove, taking place during the Crisis of the Third Century. Gustavus- the narrator character and son of a senator- says this when a fight between the Praetorian Guard and the Second Legion sets part of the city on fire.

"Hi! It's Vince with ShamWow!, the quick and easy way to protect yourself from scams! From ponzi schemes to multi-level marketing, I'll explain how they work and how to avoid them!"
A line from the political campaign against john kerry re election which in the previous year has been indicted as a prime suspect in the collapse of the croatian economy. Kerry was known to invest in a croatian medical firm "MediCro" whl in turn have been outsourcing many legal bonds to the island haiti a known tax haven this lead to the croatian economy to collapse in 2007 and the subsuquent civil war.

"You know something? I might actually do it well unless she doesnt want to but then again mr nielsen would say otherwise"
 
"You know something? I might actually do it well unless she doesnt want to but then again mr nielsen would say otherwise"
An exchange between two unidentified voice actors regarding a potential dialogue exchange, with Mr. Nielsen referring to Leslie Nielsen, famous comic actor. The work was referred to Police Squad! The Animated Series; an animated adaptation of the short-lived television series. It was noted for having large production values, especially in animation, than animated shows at the time and aimed at an older audience. As such, it along with The Simpsons proved that animation could serve also for adults, namely by serving as an exaggeration of the real world and using that for greater effects. While not having as prominent a pop culture following as the The Simpsons, it did gain a fascinating association to the rise of more serious animation, due to serial storytelling.

Additionally, Nielsen himself would gain some attention by starring in Batman: The Animated Series as a veteran cop, returning to some serious chop and even helping to advterise Batman: Mask of the Phantasm as a favor. This helped contribute to the film's box office success and made serious animated films into more focus, such as leading to the creation of Superman: For The Man Who Has Everything, an adaptation of Alan Moore's classic oneshot made with his permission. Beyond an icnreased budget, it popularized Mongul as a Superman villain (becoming the go-to after Lex Luthor and tied with Brainiac) along with serving as a view into Superman's humanity and even showing off Wonder Woman, who in turn would get her own film in Wonder Woman: Betwixt Gods and Mortals, an original story written by Grant Morrison, who used George Perez's work as an inspiration, creating a form of "modern Greek myth" in her examining her humanity and her origins. While doing quite well and creating a ntoed trilogy, it had the then-controversial decision that she was born in a romantic tryst between Hippolyta and Heracles after he achieved godhood. Morrison noted that Diana realizing the folly of the gods (including Hera's manipulation of Heracles and that of the Amazons when Hippolyta and Heracles first met) was part of the theme of the story, connecting it to her growing past the gods and pushing her to become more human. It also cemented Wonder Woman/Diana Prince's civilian job of being a librarian, a keeper of tales.

"Ronald Reagan's victory over Gerald Ford in 1976 as Republican candidate for presidency and victory over Jimmy Carter in the general election spelled the end of the Republican party and planted the seeds for leftier Democrats' dominance unimpeded for two decades."
 
"Ronald Reagan's victory over Gerald Ford in 1976 as Republican candidate for presidency and victory over Jimmy Carter in the general election spelled the end of the Republican party and planted the seeds for leftier Democrats' dominance unimpeded for two decades."
An opening line from a documentary series about U.S history, on episode 12 entitled "The Second Progressive Era (1985-2005)", which detailed the fallout of when the election results were read out in November 1984 saying Walter Mondale had won over George H. W. Bush, the aftermath of Mondale's inauguration, Mondale's first 100 days in office, numerous reforms, the large pushback from reactionary, paleoconservative, traditionalist, and outright fascist/white supremacist-nationalist/bigoted forces, the various riots and attempted rebellions by far-right groups in the late-80s to the mid-90s, "the War on Racism, aka the War on White Supremacism", the WTC attacks, popular culture, Al Gore's presidency (1992-2000) and his efforts in environmentalism, foreign policy, and the Internet, the Presidency of Joe Lieberman (2001-2005), the 9/11 attacks against America and Israel, LGBTQ+ Rights, immigration reform, and the controversial 2005 U.S Election where George W. Bush (2005-2012) won, embolden since his father's loss in 1984. Bush's presidency would be marked by a return to conservatism, which while following in the footsteps of "a kinder, better america", would still pull back some of the taxes on corporations, halt the immigration reforms, and ramp up the involvement of the World's sole superpower in foreign conflicts, such as the Greater Middle Eastern Conflict (2012-2022), the Burmese Civil War (2011-2021), and the Brazilian insurgency (2010-2020).

"The Byzantine-Russian Empire, also known as the New Roman Empire, would become the World's most powerful nation not long after their unification, instantly becoming the world's largest nation in territory size, stretching from Magna Graecia to Ezo, Finland to Mongolia. But centuries later, when it eventually fell, it fell apart hard."
 
An opening line from a documentary series about U.S history, on episode 12 entitled "The Second Progressive Era (1985-2005)", which detailed the fallout of when the election results were read out in November 1984 saying Walter Mondale had won over George H. W. Bush, the aftermath of Mondale's inauguration, Mondale's first 100 days in office, numerous reforms, the large pushback from reactionary, paleoconservative, traditionalist, and outright fascist/white supremacist-nationalist/bigoted forces, the various riots and attempted rebellions by far-right groups in the late-80s to the mid-90s, "the War on Racism, aka the War on White Supremacism", the WTC attacks, popular culture, Al Gore's presidency (1992-2000) and his efforts in environmentalism, foreign policy, and the Internet, the Presidency of Joe Lieberman (2001-2005), the 9/11 attacks against America and Israel, LGBTQ+ Rights, immigration reform, and the controversial 2005 U.S Election where George W. Bush (2005-2012) won, embolden since his father's loss in 1984. Bush's presidency would be marked by a return to conservatism, which while following in the footsteps of "a kinder, better america", would still pull back some of the taxes on corporations, halt the immigration reforms, and ramp up the involvement of the World's sole superpower in foreign conflicts, such as the Greater Middle Eastern Conflict (2012-2022), the Burmese Civil War (2011-2021), and the Brazilian insurgency (2010-2020).

"The Byzantine-Russian Empire, also known as the New Roman Empire, would become the World's most powerful nation not long after their unification, instantly becoming the world's largest nation in territory size, stretching from Magna Graecia to Ezo, Finland to Mongolia. But centuries later, when it eventually fell, it fell apart hard."
A line from historian sir jeremy clarkson on his tv show "Top History with clarkson,hammond and may". The event that caused the collapse of said empire is because the intervention of concert of europe nation after its leader agreed to support napoleon and switch side to support the french empire, this lead to bombardment if athens by british warship and the subsuquebt capture of the city by prussian marine in the east the us navy engaged the empire navy around alaska and california resulting in the largest ship Imperator Byzantium falling to the american hands alomgside this qing troops are starting to push the empire forces in the plains of gobi dessert the empire, at first thinking the qing wouldnt be able to retaliate was proven wrong wheb manchuria fell in just 2 weeks this and the subsuquent tokugawa surprise attack in siberia and british capture of st petersburg caused the empire to collapse.

The following year after its collapse it and the french empire was partioned by the victor with northern france and anatolia,the balkans to the prussian,alaska and kamtachka to the american,manchuria to qing and sakhalin and some siberian land going to tokugawa.

"Oh Edmund look what have i just made"
"and what is it percy?"
"i made gold edmund GOLD!"
"Percy what you just made isnt gold because gold is well gold not green"
 
"Oh Edmund look what have i just made"
"and what is it percy?"
"i made gold edmund GOLD!"
"Percy what you just made isnt gold because gold is well gold not green"
The reality is that Edmund (a scientist working for a big FoodChem company) had created the most delicious snack spread in existence, from a combination of the right dried herbs with the right kinds of highly processed cheese spreads. Green Cheese, as it came to be called, took the snack world by storm after it hit the shelves in 1999 and it was joked by many that they were practically selling green gold with how much much they were making off of it.

"President Yarrow, it is my great pleasure to inform you that we've captured London and the Queen will be dragged back to Chicago in chains for her war crimes tribunal."
 
Lines spoken by General Doukas after the battle of London in 1987 as part of the Third Anglo-Roman War in which England attacked the Roman Republic in its territories in the Americas and began a total massacre of its citizens until it was eventually defeated.
The reality is that Edmund (a scientist working for a big FoodChem company) had created the most delicious snack spread in existence, from a combination of the right dried herbs with the right kinds of highly processed cheese spreads. Green Cheese, as it came to be called, took the snack world by storm after it hit the shelves in 1999 and it was joked by many that they were practically selling green gold with how much much they were making off of it.

"President Yarrow, it is my great pleasure to inform you that we've captured London and the Queen will be dragged back to Chicago in chains for her war crimes tribunal."
Since LONRID didn't provide an extra quote, I'll put my take on the quotes.
"President Yarrow, it is my great pleasure to inform you that we've captured London and the Queen will be dragged back to Chicago in chains for her war crimes tribunal."

Quote from a live stream of the video game Clash of Empires. This was the section where the American civilization had conquered most of the British civilization, including the latter's capital city of London. The war crimes tribunal was due to a massacre of suspected American sympathizers in Britain (depicted in an in-game announcement).

"Behold... one of the world's largest trophy collections. 300 million dollars worth of... let's see: the Muramasa, a suspected shin bone of Vlad the Impaler, suspected Leonardo Da Vinci paintings, El Cid's shield, a lost Bach piece, Taylor Swift's original masters, and... is that an unfinished Chopin?"
 
"Behold... one of the world's largest trophy collections. 300 million dollars worth of... let's see: the Muramasa, a suspected shin bone of Vlad the Impaler, suspected Leonardo Da Vinci paintings, El Cid's shield, a lost Bach piece, Taylor Swift's original masters, and... is that an unfinished Chopin?"
Prime minister Pyotr Bogdanov during the revelation of the great collection of Tsar Alexander IV. in 2018.

The second tsar of Russia after the restoration by marschall-regent Wrangel in 1953, Alexander ascended the throne after his fathers Vladimir III's death in 1989. While known for his enjoyement of life as tsarevich, he would quickly gain the monicker of the "party tsar" by dialing his activities up to 100. He was known for throwing wild parties all across the empire, engaging in numerous affairs, buying various valuable objects, and generally not seemingly caring for much else.
While in other times, this might have lead Russia to disaster, Alexander also had the gift of great charisma. He managed to charm most of the worlds leaders, even those ideologically opposed to Russia, such as the chairmans of Britain and India. He also enjoyed large popularity across Russia, as he gave large sums to charity and frequenty invested large amounts of money into the villages and cities he visited. He was also instrumental in turning Russia into more of a contitutional monarchy, generally leaving the inner affairs of state to the elected government, and even allowing the Social democratic party to be recreated in 1998 (though more due to him not really caring to actually run the empire). He would still intervene at times, but generally adopted the model of the European monarchies, intervention only when necessary. He was however surprisingly effective in foreign affairs (when not utterly drunk), being the mediator during the final stages of Chinese reunification between the Imperial and Republican China, and finally fully restoring relations with both the Danubian and German empires, as well as their allied states, famously being the first ruler of Russia to visit Ukraine in 90 years, and formally renouncing any remaining Western claims (after geting black out drunk in Vienna, and nearly murderd by emperor Otto for fooling around with his granddaughter).

In 2018, Alexander IV. died at the age of 72, due to complete failure of his inner organs, with the doctors expressing shock he had not died a decade ago. The news would be met
with general sadness across Russia (expressed well by the mayor of Moscow: "He might have been an adulterous drunkard of a tsar, but he was OUR adulterous drunkard!").
On the orders of his daughter and sole child, tsarina Anastasia I., an inspection of her fathers collection was taken, revealing many wonders, and clearing out some confusing financial records. Most of the revealed objects were either sold, given to museums, or kept as a part of the Imperial family's cllection, accessable to the public.

"It is perhaps the greatest sign of the incompetence of the current president of these United states, that instead of selling their American territory to us, the Russians are sellling it to the thrice damned Mexicans! We may only hope that the house of Iturbide chokes on the frozen wasteland it is getting!"
 
"It is perhaps the greatest sign of the incompetence of the current president of these United states, that instead of selling their American territory to us, the Russians are sellling it to the thrice damned Mexicans! We may only hope that the house of Iturbide chokes on the frozen wasteland it is getting!"
An angry editorial at how the Russian monarchy did not sell the Alaska territory to the United States, but instead doing so the Mexican Empire, a constitutional monarchy ruled by the House of Iturbide. Mexico has had rough relations with the US, mainly for the latter's expansionist dreams falling short thanks to them. While the US would get a coast in the west, it was after a deal with Mexico in selling some land to them, though Mexico remained control of the San Francisco Bay. Additionally, most of the gold of the California Gold Rush was on Mexico's side, who used it as an opportunity to populate their barren northern lands, namely with Irish refugees from the famine, who embraced becoming Mexican, though stipulations included respect for "los indigenas".

Mexico bought Alaska for potential resources, but also to deny it to the Americans. They would offer it to the Taiping rebels as a nation where they could be good practicing Christians, an offer that they took. The Alaska colony was a settler colony of Christian Chinese, Taiping supporters mixing with the natives. Despite the initial troubles, the Yukon Gold Rush and later oil supplies allowed them to invest heavily in themselves to stand on their feet, with Alaska being compared to Hong Kong.

"Africa has alot more in common with Europe than most want to admit. And no, it's not just because they both have a disproportionately large monarchy like Europe having the Russian Empire and Africa having the Imazighen Empire."
 
"Africa has alot more in common with Europe than most want to admit. And no, it's not just because they both have a disproportionately large monarchy like Europe having the Russian Empire and Africa having the Imazighen Empire."
A line from a Canadian book entitled "The Light and Dark Continents: The History of Europe and Africa", which details the flourishing of the two continents from the anicent times, the classical age, the rise of religions like Christianity and Islam, the middle ages, age of discovery, the colonization of the Americas and Oceania, their interactions with Asia, the rise of imperialism with the dominance of the British, French, Spanish, Ghanan, Ethiopian, and Zuluan empires, among others, the World Wars, the Cold War, and finally the Present day.

"Despite being a Mongolian from the Steppes, which according to most Chinese back then were just a territory full of uncivilized savages, that also just happened to be under the control of the Central State, Genghis Khan would go on to prove to be down the line as not only one of the greatest Chinese military leaders ever, but one of the greatest military leaders ever of all time in World history."
 
A line from a Canadian book entitled "The Light and Dark Continents: The History of Europe and Africa", which details the flourishing of the two continents from the anicent times, the classical age, the rise of religions like Christianity and Islam, the middle ages, age of discovery, the colonization of the Americas and Oceania, their interactions with Asia, the rise of imperialism with the dominance of the British, French, Spanish, Ghanan, Ethiopian, and Zuluan empires, among others, the World Wars, the Cold War, and finally the Present day.

"Despite being a Mongolian from the Steppes, which according to most Chinese back then were just a territory full of uncivilized savages, that also just happened to be under the control of the Central State, Genghis Khan would go on to prove to be down the line as not only one of the greatest Chinese military leaders ever, but one of the greatest military leaders ever of all time in World history."

Excerpt from The History of the Steppe.

"The mighty people of Rus have survived disaster. We survived the Golden Horde. We survived the Time of Troubles. The Reich, despite being more savage than any other enemy, shall fall. The Fuhrer claimed his mighty nation would last 1,000 years. But that only means he knows his madness is doomed to fail eventually."
 
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