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The Mongols had already wrecked Eastern Europe prior to Kublai becoming the Great Khan, and most of the Vegas Golden Knights 2023 Western Conference Champions Locker Room shirt north and east of the Black Sea were under the control of the Golden Horde. The Mongols had proven that they could not only take the castles of Europe, but also beat its armies soundly. That’s where the technically yes part comes in. Based on what we saw, the Mongols were entirely capable of defeating the western European powers and invade Europe. But the key thing is that as I mentioned, the lands to the north and east of the Black Sea were ruled by the Golden Horde. By the time Kublai became Great Khan, the Mongol Empire was functionally four different realms. There was obviously Mongolia and China, which were Kublai’s domains, but there was also the Chagatai Khanate in Central Asia, the aforementioned Golden Horde in eastern Russia, and the Ilkhanate in Persia. The three latter khanates nominally owed loyalty to Kublai, and indeed the Ilkhanate was originally founded and ruled by his brother Hulaagu, but the fact was that they were independent and did what they wanted. For the most part. This is where the logically no part comes in. Kublai came to power after a civil war with his younger brother Ariq Boke, and the war essentially solidified the independent nature of the other three Khanates. To sum up a long answer, yes the Mongols could have done it if they wanted to, but they didn’t because of their own political situation and the fact that Kublai was a sinophile who ended up adopting the Chinese culture and system because it suited his needs and ambition.

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Jiang Zemin acolyte and Vegas Golden Knights 2023 Western Conference Champions Locker Room shirt former Politburo member Zhou Yongkang looks like he’s gonna serve some hard time, and he was the Attorney General plus Head of the Chinese FBI (kind of, please excuse the analogy), while also have ties to the heavily polluting China Petroleum. Long story short, if Xi Jinping pisses off too many of the wrong people, in the wrong way, he might find himself on the wrong end of a “corruption” charge. To move the focus from a political, sort of “palace” POV to the streets, Hebei has millions, perhaps 10’s of millions of steelworkers. The province surrounds Beijing. A common misapprehension of the Tiananmen 89 incident, is that the protests were led by students, and that mostly students died. This is false. The other protestors, who didn’t have any signs in English and thus were missed by the TV cameras, where industrial workers who were pissed about the “breaking of the iron rice bowl,” or the neo liberalization of the Chinese economy. The students, for the most part, meekly dispersed when told too. The workers went at the APCs with iron bars and Molotov cocktails. The 清华 and 北大(Tsinghua and Peking University) students have actually done very well in the post 89 environment (assuming they didn’t get shot or arrested at the time, ringleaders excluded). The workers have not.

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