I just copied and pasted parts of the Anti- machievel by Frederick The Great🤷

@Duke of Mecklenburg Tbh, I doubt a literal prince would be swayed or introduced to their power via that work

They'd probably read it and throw it out as trash

The prince was read by many rulers for hundreds of years

@Fitzydog

Yes, But so are a lot of other books

Some good, some mediocre

Machiavelli had a huge impact on rulers around Europe @Fitzydog

Frederick the great was the first monarch to really question it

200 years after it came out

He layed out the principal's of how a monarch should lead without being a douche/power hungry dictator...He had absolute power, yet had some of the freest subjects in Europe

Yes tell that to the poles

Jesus

Machiavelli

The Corrupted Aryan Mysteries And History
http://esotericawakening.com/the-corrupted-aryan-mysteries

It's so refreshing to find out an idea you've had for a while and thought you were crazy for having was actually coined centuries ago by a philosopher.

Just found out about Hegel's view of history as a dialectic

https://i.redd.it/zo381g4sujr21.png

She gets uglier by the picture

It that the mask that hides a crazy person is slipping more and more as she gets backed into a corner by her opponents

Lul France and their 1 tine

The *what* championship?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26EivpCPHnQ
@meratrix

Frederick the great OP...pls nerf

Half the men, over 10 times the kill count

Jesus hell

That's frederick for you

😂 🤷

He oblique attacked the fuck outta people

He faked a retreat to pull the French into a valley were hes Artillery obliterated the French, reformed his line infantrymen and smashed the disorganized French army, since the French were trying to chase what they thought was a retreating army

I KNEW that was a valid troop orginazion

maybe I should actually look this stuff up

Works in total war

I'll have to try it then. Total War doesn't usually respond well to historic strategies

what do you mean "throwing more men at it" isn't a real strategey????

Frederick was always severely outnumbered, so the oblique attack only really worked for him, due to Prussian discipline...He had the most disciplined well trained army on the planet, that would hold formation and reload there muskets faster than the opposition

So most of his line would be much thinner and weaker then the enemies, and he had to rely on his soldiers standing there ground and not routing against insane odds, as his superior drill and officers coordinated quick maneuvers...Frederick relyed on discipline and out maneuvering his enemies...So he could push a large chunk of his army into the left flank of the Austrians or French, and break them, while maintaining a thin line holding on for dear life in the center and right

hey guys remember when sweden epicly won against the hre with 70k men compared to 546k

`The emeritus Pope then praises the work of John Paul II who with theological firmness sought to stem that dangerous drift. In an encyclical of Pope Wojtyla in 1993, Ratzinger explains, it was emphasized that "there are actions that can never become good. There are values ​​which it is never permissible to sacrifice in the name of an even higher value and which are also above the preservation of physical life. God, it is even more than physical survival ".`