Quote Originally Posted by hroşila View Post
Stating the obvious is not whitewashing. It is absurd to rely on an administrative designation to decide who's in the right (and which country's civilians deserve to die, apparently). What if an empire was invaded (for the second time in 40 years, for example) by a kingdom that was trying to conquer it and turn it into a colony? What if, on top of that, the kingdom in question had the worst kind of government and ideology? That sounds implausible, huh?
You seem to have jumped forward two hundred years and multiple countries' depopulation in the name of dynastic aggrandizement from where Clistenes was.