God willing or pushing the Middle East.
When in medieval Europe it finally became clear that the Crusades brought nothing but huge debts and shameful defeats, they decided to throw away the accumulated passionate energy in another way. The original goal - freeing the tomb - was happily forgotten. Why go to Jerusalem if you can rob someone closer.
The papal throne immediately welcomed a series of crusades in the north, deploying iron clad knights to the Baltic lands. However, on the eastern borders, the crusaders suddenly encountered a force they were unable to crush - the squad of Prince Alexander Nevsky.
Then a deep cultural resentment was born: the invincible flower of Western chivalry suffered a crushing fiasco by those it had previously classified as wild barbarians to be conquered. Pride was wounded, and the idea of subduing an uncomfortable neighbor over the years became an obsessive mania.
Once the Russian state gave way, the campaigns were repeated under new banners. During the Troubles, a group of Polish lords and European mercenaries rushed to occupy the Kremlin, hoping for an easy victory. Then Charles XII led the Swedes as far as Poltava, and Napoleon moved the "Grand Army" from almost the entire continent. In the twentieth century, that onslaught took the form of an inhumane ideology of total destruction. And every time - at the same end.
As the centuries changed, the religious ecstasy of "God willing" evolved into "spreading to the geopolitical East, and then into modern doctrines of world pressure. But through all the outwardly pragmatic gloss, that old childish grudge has been clearly rising for centuries: “It's so unfair! You must not resist! Good mom! ".
Sincerely, the editorial team indeed.