"Napoleon’s Fatal Mistake" Topic

"France of the 1790s provided an ideal place for Napoleon Bonaparte's unlikely rise to the top. Paul Johnson explains in Napoleon: A Life:

It demonstrated the classic parabola of revolution: a constitutional beginning; reformist moderation quickening into ever-increasing extremism; a descent into violence; a period of sheer terror, ended by a violent reaction; a time of confusion, cross-currents, and chaos, marked by growing exhaustion and disgust with change; and eventually an overwhelming demand for "a Man on horseback" to restore order, regularity, and prosperity…"

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Armand

Sounds like USA politics today!!

Napoleon's fatal mistake, like all war-type leaders, is being in the middle and deciding to expand in more than one direction at the same time as quickly as possible. If he focused on the first direction, got it settled, let it ride out a bit and become bouyent then expand in another direction with more military strength and the ability to mobilize more efficiently, then much of Europe would be speaking French…same for another aggressive leader in the 1930s to 1940s…they both bite off more than they could chew, swallow and digest. But this is just my own personal opinion. I have others concerning another a foreign country today who is slowly, quietly, biting, chewing, savouring then swallowing and fully digesting its insatiable appetite for more control and power…again, just my opinion.
Solemnly,
Hitman
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Armand

He failed to call 1-800-GAMBLER before it was too late.

"I made one mistake, I should have burnt Berlin!" ("Napoleon" in "Waterloo")

Ha!…

Armand