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auniqueusername132 t1_iyeaido wrote

Reply to comment by Throwublee in The EU is looking at seizing $330 billion in frozen Russian assets and investing them — with any profits going to Ukraine by KeenlyFirst

The Roman’s had a very interesting need to justify all their wars as defensive

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Koa_Niolo t1_iyesrrw wrote

Then when they did declare war they had to announce it by ceremonially hurling a spear from Roman territory into the enemy's territory. Of course this became difficult when they declared war on Epirus and would have needed to hurl the spear across the Adriatic Sea.

So instead they built a column to represent the enemy territory that was then pelted with a spear whenever Rome went to war.

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[deleted] t1_iyeoilv wrote

Yeah super interesting. Dan Carlin talks about it quite a bit in the Celtic Holocaust podcast

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