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Napoleon: a Cautionary Tale for Young Idealists - Alexey Guzey

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1.1. Napoleon was a genius tactician and a terrible geopolitician. 1.2. Napoleon didn’t have to go to Russia. Just his pride. 1.3. Napoleon could’ve stopped having conquered all Europe sued for peace acceptable to everyone long-term. 1.4 But he only knew how to wage war & couldn’t accept the humiliation of Alexander I deciding to stop supporting Napoleon’s UK blockade. 1.5. Napoleon always reasoned from the worst case scenario. He was a great student of history. He anticipated everything that could go wrong in all of the previous wars. 1.6. Plutarch wrote about Parthians doing this to Romans: “nothing was farther from the thoughts of the Parthians than to attack the Romans in front.” 1.7. Peter the Great did this to Charles XII 100 years before Napoleon. 1.8. Napoleon must’ve known that Russians would refuse to give him the battle. 1.9. Return from Elba – same thing. What was his plan? 1.10. There was no way for him to win long-term. No chance. 1.11. Again, just pride. Even if he won W

Napoleon: a Cautionary Tale for Young Idealists created: January 2024 ; modified: April 2024 Table of Contents 5 random top posts > College Q&A > Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors > How Life Sciences Actually Work: Findings of a Year-Long Investigation > How to make friends over the internet > Advice from Tyler Cowen I may have conceived a good many plans, but I was never free to execute one of them. For all that I held the rudder, and with so strong a hand, the waves were a good deal stronger. I never was in truth my own master; I was always

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