Man I missed this. It's insane to think that these wars started because of differencing religious values. But I guess at the time religion was like their political system
[Page 23] "We could also fight in the open." ...are you being serious right now? Fight an open battle with fewer number against a force made largely of cavalry? Do you want to die that badly??
lol translator note "also completely false" Barbarossa was a Barbary pirate and an Ottoman admiral, if they're talking about Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein he's on wikipedia
That's actually a great analogy, like the 20th-century conflicts between secular economic and sociopolitical belief systems like communism, capitalism, socialism, progressivism, fascism, libertarianism, etc.
One might even see the current conflict between wokism and (classical) liberalism in the Protestant/Catholic struggle for hearts and minds at that time.