I should add the parallels to France are striking: Girondins are killed by Montagnards who kill each other and become Jacobins... Ad nauseam. Pray there is no Bonaparte.
I should add the parallels to France are striking: Girondins are killed by Montagnards who kill each other and become Jacobins... Ad nauseam. Pray there is no Bonaparte.
Bonaparte was in essence the masculine alpha male teams reasserting themselves through military power. The battlefield Victor sweeping away the political cliques and restoring proper order. The days of tyranny ended with bonaparte and for most, good order was restored.
That is for the domestic situation. For the foreign policy, bonaparte did try to make a compromise between the revolutionary ideals and aristocratic rule, but the British could not allow a continental power and thus fermented more wars, just like they did versus Germany a century later. Perfidious Albion not being an empty moniker.
Why does China not dominate the world? Because civilisations that eliminate competitive jurisdictions stagnate. Rome, for instance, was where Classical civilisation went to die. The impossibility of uniting Europe was good for the development of Western civilisation.
I should add the parallels to France are striking: Girondins are killed by Montagnards who kill each other and become Jacobins... Ad nauseam. Pray there is no Bonaparte.
Bonaparte was in essence the masculine alpha male teams reasserting themselves through military power. The battlefield Victor sweeping away the political cliques and restoring proper order. The days of tyranny ended with bonaparte and for most, good order was restored.
That is for the domestic situation. For the foreign policy, bonaparte did try to make a compromise between the revolutionary ideals and aristocratic rule, but the British could not allow a continental power and thus fermented more wars, just like they did versus Germany a century later. Perfidious Albion not being an empty moniker.
Why does China not dominate the world? Because civilisations that eliminate competitive jurisdictions stagnate. Rome, for instance, was where Classical civilisation went to die. The impossibility of uniting Europe was good for the development of Western civilisation.