There is almost nothing Athenian about China, nor Spartan about the United States

But here we are.

Does THE GRAUNIAD even know that Sparta won that war?

Does Xi? 

Meanwhile "Make America Great Again" handed our adversaries the rhetorical cudgel of decline wielded by Xi against Trump. 

America is great when it stands for human freedom, something Trump is too shallow to grasp. The very word strikes terror into the hearts of the Chicoms, and is our greatest weapon against them.

But under Trump America has betrayed freedom in Ukraine, and acted more like imperial Athens in the Persian Gulf than like Sparta.

The attack on Iran is looking more and more like the failed Sicilian Expedition every day. 

If Xi wants to win, he'll act more like Sparta and let the real Athens destroy itself. 

 

 

 

Taki, who thinks it's 431 BC, takes time out from his debaucheries to scold The Donald that Iranians are going to experience terrible suffering, and Americans eventual defeat

Arrogance led to the Athenian demise, no doubt about it.  

But like the good Spartan that he is, he doesn't consider that it might be 490 BC instead, seeing how he and his European friends are too busy with feasting to come to the aid of our age's Athens at Marathon.

Here.

 

300 Spartans held off 100,000 Persians for a week at Thermopylae, but OK Jesse, go off

The Greek referendum was close in only one place: Conservative Sparta

The vote was less close in Kastoria in the north, with "No" winning 52%-47%.

You'll notice The Guardian got the graphic at the top and the bottom totally backwards, which isn't the first time on this story. Someone reported yesterday, I believe, that Varoufakis would resign if the vote were NO when in actuality he said he would resign if Greece voted Yes.

The artists are smoking something at The Grauniad.