Most Eastern of the Crusades targeted Jerusalem, one Damascus, one Egypt, one Lithuania one even Christian Constantinople. Whole those in the middle east, none are in the region most commonly called Mesopotamia, which is modern day Iraq. The quatrain that they quoted reads:
The great host and sect of the crusaders, Will be massed in Mesopotamia: Of the nearby river the fast company, That such law will hold for the enemy.
As you can see, this is at the best vague. It only gets really "scary" when you connect it to all his other quatrains about a great war in the Middle East that will involve much of the world and will require the "Two powers of the poles" (Interpreted to be Russia and the USA) to eventually stop. Firstly, connecting it to those quatrains is a stretch, because he deliberately jumbled his predictions up. Secondly, the quatrain above and many of the others could just as accurately describe the massive middle-eastern campaign in the first world war as it could some impending future doom, no one goes that route because that's just not salacious and doom saying enough. Thirdly, the entire thing is hogwash because Nostradamus was clearly making an enemy out of the Turks of the 1600's, who at that time were the most feared nation in Europe who had only just recently been turned back from the gates of Vienna itself. It surely, in that environment would seem pretty clear to Nostradamus that one day some massive cataclysmic war to stop the unbeatable Turk was coming. What's funny is that he didn't forsee the Turks declining after defeat at Vienna, becoming the "sick man of Europe" and eventually being destroyed by a mere portion of the strength of the British and Russian Empires in 1918.
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Date: 2009-01-05 03:00 pm (UTC)The quatrain that they quoted reads:
The great host and sect of the crusaders,
Will be massed in Mesopotamia:
Of the nearby river the fast company,
That such law will hold for the enemy.
As you can see, this is at the best vague. It only gets really "scary" when you connect it to all his other quatrains about a great war in the Middle East that will involve much of the world and will require the "Two powers of the poles" (Interpreted to be Russia and the USA) to eventually stop. Firstly, connecting it to those quatrains is a stretch, because he deliberately jumbled his predictions up. Secondly, the quatrain above and many of the others could just as accurately describe the massive middle-eastern campaign in the first world war as it could some impending future doom, no one goes that route because that's just not salacious and doom saying enough. Thirdly, the entire thing is hogwash because Nostradamus was clearly making an enemy out of the Turks of the 1600's, who at that time were the most feared nation in Europe who had only just recently been turned back from the gates of Vienna itself. It surely, in that environment would seem pretty clear to Nostradamus that one day some massive cataclysmic war to stop the unbeatable Turk was coming. What's funny is that he didn't forsee the Turks declining after defeat at Vienna, becoming the "sick man of Europe" and eventually being destroyed by a mere portion of the strength of the British and Russian Empires in 1918.