Underfunded, always outnumbered and with a largely unorganized
band of mercenaries (Belisarius had few Cataphracts), and on top of
it all charged with defending an empire attacked in four
directions, Belisarius was charged not only with fighting a four
front war, but Justinian told him, he had to recapture the lands of
the western Roman Empire. You ever heard the military axiom "never
fight a two front war?" Belisarius fought a 4 front one, in his
time, the Byzantine empire was nearing death. To the north, were
the Slavs and the Ostrogoths, the hostile, more warlike Slavs, to
the south the Egyptians were rebelling and mounting assaults of
their own against Anatolia, to the east were the Persians, and to
the west, were the Visigoths and various Germanic tribes including
the Vandals. Belisarius defeated all of them; a feat of tactical
genius, that has yet to be matched.
Belisarius is important, although he is given little credit in
western history texts, because the Byzantine empire formed a
barrier between the empires of the middle east, and Europe. In fact
it was not the first time in history, Greece acted as Europe's
shield; any army wanting Europe, had to go through Greece first,
this was also true in Belisarius' time. As a general rule with
western racism, the Greeks are white when it comes to talking about
ancient times, but all of a sudden they are not white, when it
comes to talking about western achievements. Greek whiteness, is
dependent on the arrogant convenience of a given western historian.
Genetically though it has been found, the ancient Greeks are in
fact cousins to the semites, although, pure Greeks are rare these
days. Most full blooded Greeks live only on the islands, mainlander
Greeks tend to be Slavic, or of Greek descent but with Slavic
admixture. Belisarius himself, was an olive skinned Greek, a member
of what the Nazis considered "inferior peoples." The reason
Belisarius rarely gets a mention is because many of the warriors
him, his Cataphracts, and army of largely volunteers massacred,
were all blonde. Hitler's mighty "Aryan" soldiers. The history, is
in fact true; Belisarius, who had dark hair, dark eyes, and Olive
skin, massacred, one Germanic tribe after the next, a fact
conveniently left out by Nazi "history" texts. It is also
conveniently left out of American and British history texts.
Belisarius was Greek; that is a historical fact.
The truth is the Balkan peninsula has acted as a barrier for
Europe, since ancient times. They have either halted the advance of
eastern armies outright, or, at least slowed them down and weaken
them enough for Europeans deeper in Europe to deal with them. For
all intents and purpose though, although genetically they are not
white, ancient Greeks I mean, culturally they were European.
Genetics and culture are not always the same thing; look at Latin
America, the mestizo countries, genetically, especially central
America, the people are predominantly native American, however
culturally, there are stronger mediterranean influences. Some
aspects of the asiatic native American culture remain; such as the
stronger emphasis on family for example, rather than individualism,
however unlike east Asian society, most mestizo latin Americans
have low self-worth the society is racked with racism. For example,
when a Latino gets angry at another for "claiming to be something
he's not," its not about pride, so much as anger that someone is
challenging the status quo. The status quo being "we are higher
than the native Americans, but lower than white people; stop
putting on airs" shooting you down and getting angry, is to make
you feel inferior, to limit you, diminish you, and if necessary
break you, just for "daring" to have self worth. Some latinos are
so racist, they seem blind to the fact that the people they worship
so much (whites) have a history of being sadistic killers. In this
day and age though you have DNA tests; that promptly shuts them up.
To be fair though, there are people with obvious native American
ancestry, poor wretches who say "oh, my grandmother was
German."
Belisarius is important, because not only did he help preserve
Europe which had some value as a culture, but, his existence,
shatters the myth of Aryan supremacy. Belisarius was as far from an
"Aryan" as any man could be. Back to the whole latin America thing;
I was just pointing out, that where there is true self-worth,
people should not get offended, if someone claims to be something
else. My ultimate message to latin America is, you don't want
people wanting to be something else stop being so abusive towards
the natives. In my experiences there growing up, the nastiest
latinos always had lighter skin; they were the ones I got into most
of my fights with. Latin American mothers spoil kids with European
features, and in a disgusting, sickening manner; they get full of
themselves, and make life difficult for everybody.
Far as semitic people, they just don't enter into the equation;
to a prejudiced Latino, there are either blonde people, or native
Americans, but you have say, a successful Arab businessman, who may
in fact have greater math competence than a white American, the
success of such a man just won't register in the brain of a racist
Latino. More than just U.S. government sabotage, latin America is
messed up for various reasons, European psychological depredations
not the least of them.
