Sparta

Sparta literally was war:the state for a very good reason, they had to subdue a slave population many times greater than their own
some stimates go as far to claim that while there where 50.000 spartans living in SParta at its peak, there were 300.000 eilotes (slaves).
You can see why they did what they did.Although in later years came corruption of their system and they became pretty much irrelevant.

>And then you have those fucks that keep talking about how Spartans were gay, even though all textual evidence states the contrary.
Go read up Plutarch's lives, specifically Agesilaus. You can literally see homosexuality on the second page.

> While he was among the so‑called "bands" of boys who were reared together, he had as his p5lover Lysander

Or stuff like this.

>Spithridates also, from the time when he abandoned Pharnabazus and came to Agesilaüs, always accompanied him in his journeys and expeditions. Spithridates had a son, a very beautiful boy, named Megabates, of whom Agesilaüs was ardently enamoured, and a beautiful daughter also, a maiden of marriageable age.

that's right, we were in rome and egypt and greece and shit

>you can't argue that they were a greater threat to Athens and the other city states
yes you can
why do you think Athens allied with the Achaemenids after the Corinthian war

no

They literally sold out greece to Persia to try and win the 2nd peloponessian war (which they started)

>The wide difference between the two characters, the slowness and want of energy of the Spartans as contrasted with the dash and enterprise of their opponents, proved of the greatest service, especially to a maritime empire like Athens. Indeed this was shown by the Syracusans, who were most like the Athenians in character, and also most successful in combating them.-Thucydides.

I guess that explains why the Spartans lost the---

Oh.

Oh, no!

hell yeah brother!
teach these cucks the truth

this is why I will never respect spartaboos
the state they love so much because of its alleged patriotism didn't hesitate a second to sell out in order to win a war they were the aggressor to begin with.

Spartans had way more allies and help and The Athenian citizens also fucked things up multiple times by being dumb as fuck and still almost won with alcibiades before they kicked him out as well.