>kill a bunch of French scouts during peacetime
>"inadvertently" start a war
>the metropole needs more money to pay for the war you started and raises taxes
>"wtf m8 this is an indignity"
>deliberately escalate your whining about the taxes into a new war
>the people you attacked to begin with agree to join your side in this war
>they go bankrupt eventually leading to a century of instability and mass death and the eventual global triumph of liberalism
He was possessed by either the Weltgeist or the devil himself
always found it funny that both Washington and Stalin could give less of a shit about all the ideological infighting amongst the revolutionaries and were more concerned about keeping the revolutionary state intact while thinking the cult of personality forming around them was stupid and cringe.
>>747685>both Washington and Stalin could give less of a shit about all the ideological infighting amongst the revolutionaries and were more concerned about keeping the revolutionary state intact while thinking the cult of personality forming around them was stupid and cringe.Same with Bolivar. He said it was dumb to call him The Liberator and said that honorific should go to Francisco de Miranda instead