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Teutoburg wasn't a battle but an ambush, and Rome killed almost everyone involved in the next years. This didn't represent a retreat: Germans weren't conquered because they had nothing to conquer.

Rather, hopefully, Iran will be to the US what Turks were to Byzantium.

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> Rather, hopefully, Iran will be to the US what Turks were to Byzantium.

An invading force that settles within it and ultimately destroys it before launching expansionist invasions to all of its neighbors?

Haha I was only thinking on the level of "the people who ended the empire", but agree that the analogy is not perfect.

> Rather, hopefully, Iran will be to the US what Turks were to Byzantium

The Turks conquered Byzantium (and India, etc)?

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