Holy shit, this guy is incredibly stupid, even by the low standards of tankies.

This notion should look ridiculous on its face. If mediaeval European logistics were ‘primitive’ then it should immediately raise questions as to how the Crusaders managed to hold al-Quds/Jerusalem for decades and why the Mongols failed to conquer all of Europe.

Does he not know what logistics are in a military sense? Does he not know what 'primitive' means in this context despite me immediately outlining what I meant by it? Does he not realize that ad-hoc logistics does not mean that starvation immediately sets in?

Me:

When called to arms, feudal polities generally did not have an actual system for feeding and supplying their troops - they just made arrangements as they went.

This far-right bootlicking chud, quoting an actual source which disproves me by... saying the exact same fucking thing I did:

[T]he crusades were no ordinary wars, and the provision of supply to western troops, who travelled many hundreds or even thousands of miles from home, required the organization of new logistical systems. Certainly, princes and kings were able to manage the logistics for their own military households in a manner consistent with ordinary warfare, while still in their home territories.

Similarly, individual armed pilgrims could carry food with them as they marched to join larger crusader groups, much as they would have done if called up to perform expeditionary military duty in a war being conducted by their legitimate ruler.

Moreover, these armed pilgrims faced the need to replenish their supplies without having any legal access to pre-existing or institutionalized systems of distribution.

The first step was to make agreements with the rulers of the territories through which they intended to travel. For Duke Robert of Normandy, Count Robert of Flanders, and Count Stephen of Blois, this meant making arrangements with the king of France; with a series of city-states along the Mediterranean coast of the Italian peninsula, including Genoa and Pisa; with the papacy; and with the Norman rulers of southern Italy and Sicily either to provide supplies or establish markets where supplies could be purchased.

Fascists are the same in any shade, it would seem. Morons, to the last.