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@ Jordan Eskovitz
2025-03-10 02:22:07
I venture to guess it is common particularly during the *hard times* phase. It is easy to talk a big game while risking little and ridiculing the actions—especially imperfect actions—of those few honorable men who are wilfully in the arena.
Defenders of the West is a series of biographical vignettes of really based crusaders who risked everything to preserve Christendom. The political environments are always complex, to be sure, but what you are describing happens to a number of the men leading the crusades. I'm currently in the chapter on the crusader John Hunyadi of Hungary. He experienced a number of bloviating nobles and kings who didn't come through on their promises to assist him despite the existential threat of the Ottomans on not only Hungary but the entirety of the West.