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Ottomans did have some pretty dope ass uniforms, though.
This is the guy Tzar Nicholas told you not to worry about.
no particular shade to the ottomans, it's just like, a funny kind of guy to be into the sultan these days. 1453, best year of my life
Oh ya the sultans were kind of a bunch of dipshits "lol let's use slaves to fight our wars and give them a bunch of guns and access to plunder what could possibly go wrong surely they would never resent me, the sultan, since I'm literally the best (everybody is saying it)"
I mean it worked really well until the ottoman empire stopped expanding. They operated by taking orphans from recently conquered areas and conscripting them. Once the new piece of land became more incorporated and there weren't enough orphans anymore they'd have to move on to the next place. Once expansion stopped for a long enough period of time they had to reform the Janissaries into a hereditary organization which both eroded their effectiveness in battle, and gave them political power.
Basically every single Ottoman institution was based around the assumption of conquest. And, to be fair, they continually expanded their borders for 400 years. Their decline took another 200 years after that. Liberal capitalism is only 200 years old and its already starting to decline so the ottomans were pretty baller by comparison.