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# ![@Clint_Davey1 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1521446048396308482.png) @Clint_Davey1 Clint Warren-Davey

Clint Warren-Davey posts on X about spain, history, mexico, to the the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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### Top Social Posts
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"The Nazis had a strange fascination with a lot of things from history. One of them is 16th century mercenary captains from the German Peasants War. They named the 8th SS Cavalry Division after Florian Geyer a radical anti-royal and anti-clerical captain who led the "Black Company". His sword was engraved with the slogan "no cross no crown." They named the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division after Gotz von Berlichingen a mercenary ruffian with a prosthetic iron hand and propensity for vulgar insults like "he can lick my arse." The Nazi interest in these guys is weird because they're not exactly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1991335636574564371)  2025-11-20T02:39Z 9451 followers, 445.7K engagements


"Imagine growing up in Extremadura Spain in the early 16th century. It was a frontier region on the border with Muslim Spain for centuries. Hot dusty summers. Freezing winters. Landlocked poor harsh. Like a Spanish Wild West. Full of impoverished noble's sons who were suddenly out of work as the Reconquista had ended. Men who had trained with sword lance and crossbow since childhood. Some earned their pay fighting as mercenaries in Italy. Many of them heard the news of the discovery of the Indies. This was a Godsend for them. A way to make a name for themselves serve God and the King and make"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994152762062590162)  2025-11-27T21:14Z 9451 followers, 158.7K engagements


"Be Spain. Conquer Mexico. Hit the Pacific Ocean. Decide to keep going and conquer the Philippines. Next target Draw up plans to take over China then attack the Ottomans from Asia in a globe-spanning crusade. Big ambition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995007165384589348)  2025-11-30T05:49Z 9452 followers, 294.2K engagements


"Some people have asked why I post so much about Spanish history even though I'm not Spanish. Two main reasons: X. I've been fascinated by pike and shot warfare the conquistadors the age of discovery and similar topics for years. I'm designing games on these topics now. The more I learn the more interesting it gets. And this is the glory days of Spain. X. As a game designer I've ended up working with a lot of Spanish people. Daniel Iniesta Hernandez - @HndezDaniel Jose Rivero - @JRiveroDesigner Antonio Vaquera Garcia Jose Ramon Faura Jose Neva - @nevawargames and others. They're great to work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995427924657500502)  2025-12-01T09:41Z 9451 followers, 91.6K engagements


"For those wondering if this is accurate - yes it is. Habsburg Spain was fighting the English Dutch French and Ottoman Empire (plus German Protestants plus conquering half the New World) all in the 16th century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995965847681335489)  2025-12-02T21:18Z 9450 followers, 164.6K engagements


"Fun fact. The term "fifth column" means having sympathisers spies or other people loyal to you inside an enemy nation or political party. It comes from the Spanish Civil War. In 1936 General Emilio Mora was marching on Madrid. He had four columns of troops marching towards the city. But he said the most decisive factor was the "fifth column" already inside the city - locals who sympathised with the Nationalists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996391442709921924)  2025-12-04T01:29Z 9451 followers, 120.6K engagements


"Ottoman Janissaries were the shock troops of the Sultan. They used muskets swords bows and various polearms. Their ranks were drawn from European Christian children who were taken from their families in the "devshirme". They were enslaved forcibly converted to Islam and raised to be fanatically loyal to the Sultan. Being cut off from their families and homelands they had no other choice but to assimilate into their own elite military culture. The origin of the Janissaries made them even more loathsome to their enemies. Europeans in the Balkans who tried to resist Ottoman expansion were often"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996722661616243008)  2025-12-04T23:25Z 9452 followers, 115.3K engagements


"I would have done so well as a medieval general because I learned so much from playing Medieval Total War. You just march your whole army to the corner of the map and line up your spearmen there and they can't outflank you. More medieval generals should have done this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996730980162498610)  2025-12-04T23:58Z 9452 followers, 124.1K engagements


""God must be Spanish." That's what the Dutch said after the miracle at the Battle of Empel in 1585. A Spanish Tercio force had been besieged on an "island" after the surrounding land was flooded. This was common when fighting in the Netherlands. They were surrounded by Dutch ships and soldiers with very low supplies cold and rainy weather and no hope of reinforcement. Overnight they dug beneath the ground of the nearby church and found an icon of the Immaculate Conception. They prayed venerated the icon and the next morning the water around Empel had frozen over paralysing the Dutch ships and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1998227909686047142)  2025-12-09T03:07Z 9452 followers, 14.6K engagements


"In the Siege of Tenochtitlan the Spanish got pretty good at using combined arms against the Aztecs. By 1521 the Aztecs had already fought a few battles against the Spanish. They knew that the guns steel swords crossbows and horses were powerful but not invincible. Units of Aztec infantry would form up into tight defensive spear walls if cavalry was nearby. They knew that if they held their ground they could maybe resist a charge. But when the Spanish saw them doing this they would being forward their artillery and blast holes in those dense formations. We're talking narrow frontages here too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994505697384698109)  2025-11-28T20:36Z 9452 followers, 106.4K engagements


"The Spanish conquistadors made their own gunpowder from scratch during the conquest of Mexico. How did they get sulfur By lowering one of their guys into a volcano:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994508730441110002)  2025-11-28T20:48Z 9452 followers, 367.4K engagements


"One of many incredible stories to come out of the Spanish golden age is Francisco Orellana and his expedition down the Amazon in the 1540's. Orellana was part of an expedition led by Gonzalo Pizarro (yes a relative of Francisco Pizarro who conquered Peru). The expedition left from Quito and was trying to find the fabled "Land of Cinnamon" which supposedly lay hidden in the jungle to the east. What the expedition actually found was the largest river in the world - the Amazon. Orellana was detached from the main expedition to find food as hundreds of Spanish and native troops had died from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1998575405184463202)  2025-12-10T02:08Z 9452 followers, 15.9K engagements


"Aside from the miracle of Our Lady of Guadeloupe Mexico was converted to Catholicism by the "12 Apostles" - XX Franciscan missionaries which were sent for this exact purpose. Hernan Cortes had specifically requested these men. He wanted monks or friars not priests because he believed the Spanish priesthood to have been hopelessly corrupted. These men arrived in the 1520's and were some of the very few men that Cortes bowed down to. They were holy men and were successful in administering baptisms converting the natives en masse and establishing the Church in Mexico. God bless the Franciscans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995691692851425521)  2025-12-02T03:09Z 9451 followers, 14.4K engagements


"Another interesting battle from Spanish history - Cartagena des Indies 1741. This was during the War of Jenkin's Ear - Britain vs. Spain . Cartagena was a major port in Spanish Colombia. The British attacked it with a huge force. 30000 men and XXX ships. The largest amphibious force Britain had ever sent to the Americas. The Spanish defended the city with about 6-7000 men. A mixture of regular infantry sailors militia and some native archers. They had X ships-of-the-line and some coastal artillery. They put up a fierce fight. The British suffered one of their worst ever naval disasters. 18000"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996388778437689617)  2025-12-04T01:19Z 9452 followers, 38.4K engagements


"Imagine being a Spanish conquistador or Portuguese explorer in the 16th century. You round up a few hundred guys. Veterans of the Italian wars or the Reconquista. Disinherited lesser nobles. Battle-hardened mercenaries. Tell them you're sailing to an unknown part of the world. You might not be able to pay them now but if they survive and win they will become lords of a new colony. You endure sea voyages lasting months and end up in some exotic tropical island in the Caribbean or an endless jungle in South America or the monsoon-wracked coastline of India. You have to fight battles against"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996406961550860666)  2025-12-04T02:31Z 9451 followers, 105.1K engagements


"The Total War series of games is good. I played Medieval Medieval X and Empire for ages when I was younger. They just had a few key things missing. No realistic command and control or operational level maneuver. You just order giant doom stacks around they go where you tell them and you usually just march directly towards the enemy army or their main city. Not much emphasis on skirmishes raids foraging and the other things that these armies actually spent their time doing. It wasn't all big set-piece battles. In fact these were rare. I get that they're more "cinematic" but they weren't the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1997191364703146419)  2025-12-06T06:28Z 9451 followers, 66.9K engagements


"The Explorer the Conquistador the Cowboy the Viking the Crusader. They're all basically the same archetype. Man seeking infinite space. You get these men when there is an open frontier. Now this is much more difficult to achieve"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1997255626855170316)  2025-12-06T10:43Z 9452 followers, 7347 engagements


"The concept of universal human rights did not begin with the UN. It's a Catholic idea. In the 16th century as the conquistadors were conquering huge parts of the New World the Spanish legal scholar Bartolom de las Casas began to oppose the harsh treatment of the natives. He said that they were human made in the image of God like Europeans and should not be enslaved or mistreated. But his impact was not entirely positive. Arguably his advice led to sending enslaved Africans to the Caribbean to replace the native labourers. Not exactly a triumph of human rights. And his writings were used as"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1998880335099281844)  2025-12-10T22:19Z 9452 followers, 16.1K engagements


"In every age the Church has had a strong nation or empire to defend it. In the first few centuries after Constantine it was the Roman Empire. In the medieval period it was the Franks and then the Holy Roman Empire. In the early modern period it was certainly Spain. In the modern age it is not so clear. There is no singular Catholic great power able to defend the Church. Maybe the USA will grow to fulfil this role. Or Poland. Hard to say"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1998951136255160662)  2025-12-11T03:01Z 9452 followers, 2933 engagements


"You know those history shows that are like "Who would win - Viking or Spartan" Well there was a battle between two famous types of warriors - Conquistadors versus Samurai. The Battle of Cagayan 1582. The Spanish garrison in the Philippines was facing attacks by Wokou (pirates) who probably included Ronin (masterless Samurai fighting as mercenaries). The Japanese had been receiving muskets from the Portuguese so these Wokou forces were fairly well-armed and quite aggressive in raiding the island of Luzon. So the Spanish governor raised a small force (40 men and a few ships) to kick them out."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994887930683519229)  2025-11-29T21:55Z 9451 followers, 93.2K engagements


"I love this painting. It's about the Battle of Empel in 1585. The Spaniards were besieged on an island by the Dutch fleet. In a desperate situation they dug and found an icon of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. They prayed overnight and venerated the icon. The next day the water around the island had frozen immobilising Dutch ships and allowing the Spanish to counter-attack and win"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995276918506308095)  2025-11-30T23:41Z 9451 followers, 165.9K engagements


"Spanish Tercios are probably the most famous units of the pike and shot era. They were solid as a rock. Very hard to break. A moveable fortress of pikes with little squares of arquebusiers operating out on the corners able to fire in multiple directions. Won glory on the battlefield against a variety of foes- especially the French. So what were they The word "tercio" means a "third". Probably got the name because in the time of Gonzalo de Cordoba "El Gran Capitan" there were three main groupings of Spanish infantry in Italy. One in Naples one in Sicily one in Lombardy. So a tercio was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995321619158532291)  2025-12-01T02:38Z 9451 followers, 34.2K engagements


"@HenryGB_274 It's the reason Columbus found the New World by accident. Trying to outflank the Turks and take the spice trade"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995342519006376055)  2025-12-01T04:01Z 9451 followers, 9871 engagements


"In the 16th century the French attempted to form infantry units somewhat like Spanish tercios. Professional pike and shot infantry that could form the core of a standing army alongside the Gendarme heavy cavalry. They called these units Legions. Each Legion was supposed to be about 6000 men drawn from a particular region of France: Normandy Picardy etc. Their composition varied but they seemed to have been very roughly XX% pikemen XX% arquebusiers and XX% halberdiers. These Legions didn't have a great combat record and were nowhere near as proficient as the tercios. Heavy cavalry not infantry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1997430368128077918)  2025-12-06T22:18Z 9451 followers, 6931 engagements


"The conquistadors were not stupid. Hernan Cortes had studied Latin law and rhetoric at the University of Salamanca. Bernal Diaz del Castillo was clearly a highly literate and educated man he took part in the Conquest of Mexico and his account of it is brilliantly written. Martn Lpez the shipwright was able to manufacture brigantine ships simply using the materials at hand in Tlaxcala territory. They then disassembled them transported them over land and reassembled them on Lake Texcoco. The conquistadors made their own gunpowder lowering men into a volcano to get sulphur. Their knowledge of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1998149047941820899)  2025-12-08T21:53Z 9452 followers, 77.7K engagements


"Pike and shot will be the next big thing in historical gaming"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1998982605342228486)  2025-12-11T05:06Z 9452 followers, 12.5K engagements


"The Spanish Conquest of Mexico is probably the closest that real history gets to science fiction or fantasy. For the Spaniards it was like landing on another planet. Everything was different - the colours the smells the plants the animals. The culture they encountered was so far away from Renaissance Europe it may as well have been aliens. Read Bernal Diaz del Castillo's description of the Spanish first entering Tenochtitlan: "We came to a broad causeway and continued our march towards Mexico and when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water and other great towns on dry land"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994190165330546955)  2025-11-27T23:42Z 9427 followers, 116.9K engagements


"The Spanish Armada did a real number on historiography. If you speak English and you believe that Catholic Spain was horrifically evil it's partially because the historical sources from the 16th century are shaped by Elizabethan propaganda. This is called the "Black Legend" type of history. It's probably why you think the Spanish Inquisition were killing millions of people or they were burning scientists at the stake etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994291645861515402)  2025-11-28T06:25Z 9416 followers, 168.3K engagements


"Spanish armies of the 16th - 17th century are fascinating and they stand out from other nations in so many little ways. Here are some examples. They favoured the "Morion" helmet - a distinctive one piece open-face helmet with a high comb on top. You look at paintings of Tenochtitlan or Lepanto and it's there. It was a good design for conquistadors off in the New World because it was cheap to manufacture and gave a bit of extra height to look intimidating. The Spanish also invented the musket - a heavy long-barrelled firearm that needed a rest to fire properly. So you have both arquebusiers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994849959137742860)  2025-11-29T19:24Z 9430 followers, 70.4K engagements


"In the Spanish conquest of Mexico one very important factor was the smallpox epidemic that wiped out huge swathes of the Aztec population. I still see pro-Aztec people saying that this was THE reason the Aztecs lost. It's true - the Aztecs lost about half of their military age males due to this disease for which they had no immunity. But it's less well known that the Spanish and their allies were suffering nearly as badly from disease as well. The Spanish had no immunity to tropical diseases they encountered in Mexico including malaria. The majority of Spanish casualties were due to disease"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995252152894435417)  2025-11-30T22:02Z 9436 followers, 27.4K engagements


"The Spanish plan to invade China in 1588 was quickly dropped. We see it as crazy now. Why did they think it was even possible Well because they had conquered the entire Aztec and Inca empires with tiny numbers of men. They had a vague idea that China was a corrupt decaying over-centralised empire that would topple easily if they could take out the leadership class. This was not true. The Ming dynasty was pretty powerful. I don't think they could have taken it down with XXX men like they did to the Inca. It also wasn't ripe for civil war in quite the same way. But I think the fact that this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995702845237350887)  2025-12-02T03:53Z 9436 followers, 50.3K engagements


"I've been posting a lot about the Spanish empire lately. But Portugal is very cool as well. They conquered a huge empire with ridiculously small amounts of men. The whole country probably had a million people but their martial spirit and knack for exploration gave them an outsized impact on world history. With a few thousand guys and a few dozen ships became the dominant power in the entire Indian Ocean and craved out colonies stretching from Africa to India to China to Japan and beyond. One little anecdote stands out. The Portuguese were devout Catholics. They knew about the Christian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996385964097483140)  2025-12-04T01:07Z 9415 followers, 8175 engagements


"An incredible naval battle from history is Cochin 1504. In the early 16th century the Portuguese were building up their empire in India. They had allied with the small kingdom of Cochin. Their rival the Zamorin of Calicut raised a huge force of XXX ships and 20000 men to kick out the Portuguese. This was one of the largest fleets ever assembled in the Indian Ocean. The Portuguese and their Cochin allies had about XXX men and X ships under Duarte Pacheco Pereira. They were defending a small island with some basic fortifications. In wave after wave the forces of the Zamorin assaulted the tiny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996394820559065505)  2025-12-04T01:43Z 9452 followers, 7211 engagements


"When historians want to explain the decline and fall of empires they get into finance and logistics and other such things. Sound like accountants. Bet when you look at how empires rise it's not about prudent financial management and carefully weighing up costs and pursuing rational strategies. Empires rise when you have X X or X generations in a row of exceptionally brave ambitious and competent warriors who also enjoy national unity and religious fervour. They don't care about finances and logistics. When an empire is rising it feels like a rush of blood through the body. Like a crackle of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996728586481684848)  2025-12-04T23:49Z 9425 followers, 22.5K engagements


"Creative Assembly - listen up. If you want to make a ton of money and catch the next wave in historical gaming here is what you need to do. Pike and Shot: Total War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996800026421743837)  2025-12-05T04:33Z 9425 followers, 13.1K engagements


"Another interesting thing about Cortes's expedition to conquer Mexico was that it was quasi-illegal. In 1520 the governor of Cuba - Diego Velazquez - sent a Spanish force of 1000 men under Panfilo de Narvaez to have Cortes arrested. Cortes had to leave Pedro de Alvarado in charge in Tenochtitlan while we went to confront this new threat. After a surprise attack Cortes defeated Narvaez's much larger force and convinced them to join him. He would need the extra manpower. While he was away from Tenochtitlan which the Spanish had been effectively ruling trouble had started. Alvarado - a bit of a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1997093830873805275)  2025-12-06T00:00Z 9418 followers, 22.3K engagements


"@lambertfromnewz Basically yes. It was the Wild West of Spain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1997859092837417422)  2025-12-08T02:41Z 9425 followers, 1515 engagements


"In modern warfare you have a supply LINE. Trucks and trains bringing tons and tons of fuel ammo and food to the front. In pre-modern warfare you have something more like a supply RADIUS. Armies needed to fan out and forage. Especially cavalry looking for fodder. So in modern wars you are protecting lines to your rear. In pre-modern wars you are trying to contest a huge area of land around your forces. In the 17th through 19th centuries you have a bit of both. Units needed gunpowder and ammunition delivered via supply lines. They also needed food and fodder - partially delivered by supply"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994638320685695096)  2025-11-29T05:23Z 9440 followers, 34.1K engagements


"As we Catholics celebrate the Feast of the Immaculate Conception we remember: X. Our Blessed Mother Mary. X. The Spanish Tercios fighting in the Eighty Years War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1998139049874440677)  2025-12-08T21:14Z 9442 followers, 6591 engagements


"@codegraph My preferred sources are Bernal Diaz del Castillo Jon Manchip White Michael Wood and William Prescott"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1998150408049672399)  2025-12-08T21:59Z 9447 followers, 5237 engagements


"In the medieval and early modern imagination Jerusalem was the centre of the world. It was seen as the location of the Garden of Eden as well as the place where Christ died and rose again. European Catholics saw themselves as being out on the edge on the periphery. The Atlantic was the "sea of darkness" that hemmed them in on the West. The rise of Islam had cut them off from the ancient civilisations of the Middle East. The crusades were an attempt to retake this centre. This must be kept in mind when you study the age of discovery. The explorers like Columbus were going out into the sea in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995652972316172311)  2025-12-02T00:35Z 9446 followers, 6046 engagements


"France England and the Dutch would have been pretty terrified in 1580. Spain and Portugal united in the Iberian Union. That's two pretty big empires uniting under one banner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996845994533925141)  2025-12-05T07:35Z 9446 followers, 17.6K engagements


"The current flag of Spain (left) dates to 1785. But during the height of the Spanish Empire the nation used the Cross of Burgundy (right). It's a jagged red saltire based on the cross of St. Andrew (also used on Scottish flag). This is the flag that was planted by conquistadors in the New World and carried by Tercio units across Europe. Why did Spain have a flag that traces its origins to the French province of Burgundy Because the House of Burgundy a branch of the Valois with it's capital in Dijon intermarried into the royal family of Castile. Burgundy also owned much of the Netherlands -"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1997453260857504124)  2025-12-06T23:49Z 9452 followers, 26.2K engagements


"Pedro de Alvarado was a legendary Spanish conquistador. He was the second-in-command of Hernan Cortes and came from the same region of Spain - Extremadura. He was charismatic and utterly fearless in battle but also cruel and sometimes impetuous. Cortes trusted him completely and often had him leading the rearguard in their marches through the Valley of Mexico. When Cortes left Tenochtitlan to deal with the expedition of Narvaez (sent to arrest him) he left Alvarado in charge of the small Spanish garrison occupying the city. This was possibly a mistake as Alvarado massacred a large number of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1997820261429850246)  2025-12-08T00:07Z 9452 followers, 48.8K engagements


"There was a time in history where JAPAN was worried about being taken over by SPAIN. This sounds odd to us. But in the time of the Tokugawa Shogunate Spain (and Portugal) was at the height of its power. The Japanese knew that Spain had taken over Mexico and the Philippines. It looked like they were edging closer to Japan. So Tokugawa Iyesu banned Christianity. He said that the Catholic priests and missionaries who were making hundred of thousands of converts were just preparing the way for a Spanish invasion. He basically saw Japanese Catholics as a fifth column inside the country ready to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994893200469987437)  2025-11-29T22:16Z 9452 followers, 55.1K engagements


"One of my favourite quotes in military history is what the Spanish said at the Siege of Castelnuovo in 1539 when asked to surrender: "The captains have consulted with their officers and the officers with their soldiers; and we have all seen it fit to die for God and for the King.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995973553695719660)  2025-12-02T21:49Z 9452 followers, 211.8K engagements


"When I travelled through Mexico many years ago I saw quite a few statues of Hernan Cortes. I asked a few locals what they thought of him. I expected them to say he was horrible brutal an evil man who destroyed indigenous cultures. But the reaction was more mixed. Many Mexicans expressed a kind of admiration for him. They respect his skills as a diplomat and military leader. This respect is mingled with regret over the loss of ancient traditions and customs. But almost no one was explicitly pro-Aztec. So the story is more complicated than we in the English-speaking world might expect. I think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1998236978408837380)  2025-12-09T03:43Z 9452 followers, 22.8K engagements


"Spanish people - why do you eat so late"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1999228742246498666)  2025-12-11T21:24Z 9452 followers, 15K engagements