I hate Putin, but is it really proper for a CNN news analyst to call Putin Vlad the Impaler? Especially since he was Romanian, not Russian. I know they share the same name, but something like "Ivan the Terrible" would have been way better.https://twitter.com/BrianKarem/status/1018854270639198208 …
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Calling Putin "Vlad the Impaler" disgraces the memory of Vlad Dracul, who was fighting for freedom from Turkish imperialism.
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The Ottomans usurped the Caliphate, and therefore the notion that Turkish imperialism was representative of Islam as a whole ispic.twitter.com/utZg6pRaXu
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SInce you brought it up, it's impressive how much we're still living in the shadow of the collapse of the Ottoman empire, Turkey/Syria/Iraq/Israel/Lebanon, all conflicts held at bey by the Ottomans.
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It was the Russians in 1774 who made the Turks see themselves as a caliphate. Need a history class Geoffrey ?
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