SouI
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I think that is self-explanatory? Ottoman Empire's population ranged between 10 to 15 million during most of its existence.You still have not explained how Lebanon can beat the Ottoman Empire.
Lebanon's population is around 7.5 million with immigrants.
But the thing is that Lebanon's population is gathered in a very small piece of land.
On the other hand Ottoman Empire's population was spred across far more land than the USA has today.
Population density is important when it comes to wars and conquests.
Lebanon has about 2.000.000 people fit for military service. Ottoman Empire on the other hand, due to extreme poverty all across its land and its extremele terrible living conditions and lack of access to basic healthcare etc, not really many people were fit for military service when it comes to ratio. Biggest ottoman armies never surpassed a few hundred thousands and even at the dawn of facing the risk of eradication at the beginning of 20th century with almost highest ever population counts the ottoman army stood at around 700k.
Biggest ever military until the elimination of the Ottoman Empire was under the command of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk with a count of over 2.5 million. That was the Turkish Independence army, but that army included very young and very old people too.
So even if Ottoman Empire ever actually had such an army itself, under that condition Lebanese army count would still surpass that of the Ottoman Empire with very old and very young people.
And again this army would have been spred out all across more land than the USA has today, while the bigger, far better trained lebanese army with far advanced weaponry (I mean I know I know.. we are talking about the fvcking lebanon here.. but in comparison to what ottomans had in their armament, what lebanon has today IS superior!) is actually located in a very small land. Lebanon could easily start a conquest and it would be a massacre for the empire!
Aight, I think it is time for some disclaimers as apparently many low iq friends we have here have comprehensing problems:
-As many has suggested comparing old countries with new ones is just stupid because the new ones no matter how weak and small they may be today will still almost always be superior to old ones no matter how powerful they were back in the past.
-As I said before I am not the one comparing them, I just wanted to help out some of our delusional members here who did that comparison themselves.
-Lebanon.. As obvious as it must be, it was just a random choice of a small country from the region. I have no connection with lebanon, couldnt give two fvcks about lebanon, have no interest in lebanon or anything lebanese(sorry to lebanese people here!). I had actually first picked our northern cyprus of today as one country that could beat ottoman empire, but then I realized not many people here could actually understand the point in such an exaggerated example and would instead be stuck on the irrelevant part of "how can northern cyprus even beat ottomans?!?! ", so I changed it to lebanon instead which I hoped would make it easier for people to finally grasp the point here.
But of course the very smart people showed up and again asked that same question, actually having made me explain how it would be possible for today's lebanon to beat ottomans which itself was never the point here.
But I still explained it just so their delusions would be dispelled.
-If you still have a very hard time trying to grasp the logic here then just swap lebanon with syria. If your brain is still having a hard time then change it with Iraq, if still not clear change it with KSA, and then Egypt, and then Israel.. and then finally with Turkey.
If your brain still refuses the fact that modern countries, especially a country like Turkey, would rekt the shit out of Ottoman Empire millions of times over and over with not much of an effort, then all I can say is May Allah Help you...