I would posit the 4th crusade was the successful one. Yeah the crusaders ran out of money and just pillaged Constantinople instead of doing another doomed attack on Jerusalem. People actually managed to get rich and dip in this crusade. Yeah Jerusalem is sill controlled by the Saracen, but I imagine for most of the nobles in charge that was just an excuse to go kill people and take their stuff. (I simplified this all a lot but still)
Do these idiots not realise that none of the crusades achieved their goals?
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"Why would Islam do this?"
I would posit the 4th crusade was the successful one. Yeah the crusaders ran out of money and just pillaged Constantinople instead of doing another doomed attack on Jerusalem. People actually managed to get rich and dip in this crusade. Yeah Jerusalem is sill controlled by the Saracen, but I imagine for most of the nobles in charge that was just an excuse to go kill people and take their stuff. (I simplified this all a lot but still)
The closest thing we have to a crusade recently were those mercenaries that got captured by Venezuelan fishermen. Same shit imo
I think everything the West has done in Iraq and Afghanistan counts.
The Baltic ones were fairly successful.
I guess, but most of those were reclassified as crusades retroactively in the 19th century.
They did in one respect - it gave a place for the nobility of Europe to send their more dipshit members so they couldn't cause problems at home.