Timeline for Creating an incompetent antagonist
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| Nov 23, 2018 at 11:14 | comment | added | Matthew Dave | @rus9384 Hitler survived a boardroom bombing by sheer luck; there were so many attempted assassinations that one would think we live in a world where timetravellers wanted him dead only to be doomed by causality. While yes, ultimately Hitler fell to an external power, it's not that rebellions didn't come close. | |
| Nov 23, 2018 at 11:02 | comment | added | rus9384 | But again, no one of them actually failed to rebels. Even more, Hitler himself was a rebel at first. "The Empire hasn't faced any sort of real resistance in generations" - this is not about the USSR of Stalin's times either. Not about modern Russia too. Putin is familiar with 90's. And methods of people you listed are based on experience, they were quite efficient against rebellions. There are two approaches to rule: terror or love, but if you are so much uninterested in other people, you destined to go the first way. | |
| Nov 23, 2018 at 9:00 | comment | added | Matthew Dave | @rus9384 He killed any general that was against his tactical 'genius' in Stalingrad. He valued loyalty above all else; any other traits was incidental. | |
| Nov 23, 2018 at 8:51 | comment | added | rus9384 | I actually don't think there was much of this in Nazi Germany past 1933. Was Hitler a paranoid? Hard to say, really. He died not because of rebellion. Stalin also died not because of rebellion. Who died because of rebellion was Nicholas II. And I don't think your words are applicable to him. | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 19:19 | comment | added | Matthew Dave | @NicHartley Hitler also pitted his three secret services against each other and executed generals that suggested remotely competent strategies. Stalin also did the latter. I guess when ego is involved, actual results get thrown out the window | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 18:45 | comment | added | anon | @MatthewDave At the risk of angering Godwin, I think Hitler/Nazi Germany is a really good example of this sort of infighting -- D-Day basically only worked because Hitler kept his generals at each others' throats, so none of them could get tank divisions into place to repel the attack. It's also both recent and high-profile enough that there's a lot of information about it. | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 18:30 | comment | added | Matthew Dave | @ChrisSunami There's several examples. Nazi Germany, Stalinist USSR, Francoist Spain, Fascist Italy, Saddam-run Iraq, Putin-run Russia, the Nixon Administration, the Reagan Administration, the Trump Administration, the Kim Dynasty of North Korea, et cetera, et cetera. | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 18:25 | comment | added | Chris Sunami | Hmmm, who does that remind me of... | |
| Nov 21, 2018 at 16:32 | history | answered | Matthew Dave | CC BY-SA 4.0 |