Here’s Why “Plan A” Really Stinks

July 19, 2023

by Simon Black Sovereign Man

The legendary walls of Constantinople were supposed to have been impenetrable. At least, that’s what the citizens thought.

But shortly after midnight on Tuesday, May 29, 1453, they watched in horror as Turkmen mercenaries from the Ottoman Empire breached a section of the walls that had stood proudly for more than 1,000 years. The city fell hours later.

Ottoman soldiers looted and pillaged Constantinople with such barbarous ferocity that their ruler, Mehmed II, was said to have wept when he inspected the city three days later, remarking, “What a city we have given over to plunder and destruction.”

Prior to the Ottoman siege, Constantinople had been the capital of the Byzantine Empire… which was for centuries one of the most powerful empires in the world.