Comments on: How to Bring Powerful Foreigners into a Tributary Relationship https://www.isegoria.net/2014/08/how-to-bring-powerful-foreigners-into-a-tributary-relationship/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:38:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Isegoria https://www.isegoria.net/2014/08/how-to-bring-powerful-foreigners-into-a-tributary-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-1457824 Isegoria Mon, 18 Aug 2014 21:06:18 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=35951#comment-1457824 I’ll admit, I knew you objected to it, and I posted it as an interesting bit of Greer-bait.

]]> By: T. Greer https://www.isegoria.net/2014/08/how-to-bring-powerful-foreigners-into-a-tributary-relationship/comment-page-1/#comment-1457757 T. Greer Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:36:57 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=35951#comment-1457757 NOOOOOOOO!

This is simply Not. True. As in, the history being told here is factually incorrect. The Han-Xiongnu war did not happen the way Luttwak says it does.

I spent two hours last night working on a rebuttal to this piece, which for some mysterious reason seems to be making its way around the blogosphere this week.

I’ll pass it on to you when I am done.

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