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Spartans Were Losers

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Spartans Were Losers

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History@lemmy.worldEnglish • 11 months ago

The U.S. military’s admiration of a proto-fascist city-state is based on bad history.

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Agreed. I read this with great interest. A take I’d not heard before.

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