Was the Fourth Crusade the most pointless major war in European

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>>66098282
yes

Pointless? I wouldn't say so. Venice achieved their goal in fucking over their rival and to the point where the Byzantines never recovered.

After the Fourth Crusade the collapse and eventual conquest of the Byzantines became inevitable. It would become only a matter of time before Constantinople came under Muslim rule.

>>66098282
>pointless

Not for the Popes - for centuries they've been masturbating to the idea of exterminating Orthodox Christianity and making Catholicism the only denomination.

Forth Crusade kind of achieved it (with fall of Byzantium Orthodoxy lost all its political power), but then Russia happened...

>>66098282
Immigrant sandniggers today is the payment for that mistake. Venezia should have taken more of them tb h

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>>66098545
>mfw Catholics literally stabbed their own brothers in the back and threw them into the arms of Muslims all for the sake of their own vanity

Western Euros really deserve to die.

>>66098282
well the crusades previously threw seljuks out of western anatolia (which they had conquered with the exception of a few cities) and drive the muslims in the levant back
basically even though the fourth crusade destroyed constantinople, byzantine empire would have fallen without the previous crusades

>>66098856
i should also add that the sacking was the result of the greeks not paying their debts lol

western civilisation was born from hatred of the levant, of which the gayreeks were always considered a part of

there was literally nothing wrong with the crushing of that meme empire

>>66098631
>The Massacre of the Latins (Italian: Massacro dei Latini; Greek: Σφαγή των Λατίνων) was a large-scale massacre of the Roman Catholic (called "Latin") inhabitants of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, by the Eastern Orthodox population of the city in April 1182.[1][2]

>The Roman Catholics of Constantinople at that time dominated the city's maritime trade and financial sector.[1] Although precise numbers are unavailable, the bulk of the Latin community, estimated at 60,000 at the time by Eustathius of Thessalonica,[1] was wiped out or forced to flee. The Genoese and Pisan communities especially were decimated, and some 4,000 survivors were sold as slaves to the (Turkish) Sultanate of Rum.[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Latins

>05:55:33 No.66101339
>05:55:33 No.66101340

>23:55:33
>23:55:33

wew

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>>66101340
>Massacre_of_the_Latins

i dont see the problem?

>>66101417
>Bulgarian
>empire

>>66098282
catholics never cared about christian brotherhood, only about money to steal, thats just another proof

>>66101340
t. catholicucked

>>66101498
>polish intellectuals

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>>66101594
>Russian "Christianity"

>>66101594
>blaming all of catholicism for venetian scheming after the pope explicitly told them not to attack christians

>>66101594
>>66101912
Yeah I'd say this is more about the Venetians being money grubbing fucking jews. If they thought it was profitable and not looked down upon, they more than likely would have sold their own people into slavery.

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>>66098282
a small city defeating a huge empire... slavs and greeks confirmed inferior... still butthurt about these

I guess Greeks should have just
PAID
THE
FUCKING
DEBTS

Fuck Italy i hate those frog fuckers so much they sacked Zadar even though we are both catholics

>>66104905
venice built all of dalmatian cities

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i see, catholics are to europe what germans are to the world

a world without catholics
is a better one

>>66104566
we're so based omo

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>>66104982
This.
Germans don't lead to wide spread illiteracy though.

>>66098282
>most pointless
most shameful

Merchants are cancer

>>66098282
Not really venice made sure that constantinople would have a change of leadership which would be more friendly to them.
Even the ottomans had better relations with the venetians than the byzantines.

>>66098631
This guy knows but it's not a surprise. It's normal for western shits to backstab you when they have something to gain.

>>66098545
>>66098631
>>66107368
You fuckers do realise that whole Crusade was excommunicated even before Constantinople was conquered by doge?

>>66108703
When they killed catholics.
When they killed the Orthodox they were cherished again.

>>66108751
Proof?