Tristan Hughes
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The sense that, well, we beat these people really easy.
We've walked through this.
We've conquered everything.
And now he wants to get rid of us and just rely on the Asian soldiers we've beaten.
It's as tactless as you can get.
It's a slap in the face, isn't it?
Particularly as they've been complaining and saying they want to go home.
You've had the mutiny at office.
You've had all of this where they've just, you know, we're fed up.
And it's, oh, well, I don't need you.
By the way, meet your successors.
These are the next few.
This is the new family.
It's incredibly tactless.
In one sense, you could see it.
It's almost, it's still doing a Philip.
It's how, as he had conquered other areas and incorporated them into a greater Macedonia, but they were culturally much more similar.
So that, and longer connections, whereas this is something very, very different.
On the one hand, what else are you going to do with this empire?