Recent content by Trotsky

No, he does not.

I know this isn't the point of the OP, but IRL Bonaparte tried to join the Lapérouse expedition that ended up vanishing in the South Pacific in the late 1780s.

This was actually the plot of one the short stories in Forrester's "Hornblower in the West Indies." Hornblower overhears a couple of ex-Old Guardsmen in New Orleans talking about boarding a fast ship in Galveston with some Waterloo veterans and haul ass to the South Atlantic, so he overtakes...

Yes, but that wasn't what I was questioning.

You mean, apart from the degree of influence extended through political actions such as in Venezuela, military interventions in the Panama, Mexican, and Cuban revolutions, and private sector interests i.e. the United Fruit Company?

Really?

The article seems to ignore the existence of the other Allied armies gathering on the frontiers, the fact that Napoleon was practically at the bottom of the barrel as far as sources of manpower went, and the absolute determination of the Allied powers to put paid to Bonapartist adventures once...

He'd be about as remembered as Adlai Stevenson, maybe at best as well-regarded as an elder Party statesman as Al Gore and John Kerry are.

"President" was considered a neutral-ish term, not quite monarchial, but not unimpressive, either. They really did make it up as they went.

I think I may have a very slightly different interpretation of the Russian Revolutions of 1917 than you, but if you're choosing to disengage over the use of the "Fuck" word then so be it.

Wait, are you actually saying that in late October 1917 millions of Russians collectively thought, at the same time, "You know what? Fuck this shit" and rose en masse to replace the Czar with Lenin's guys? I mean, for starters, the monarchy had been gone for months already...

It wasn't a random uprising in 1925 in Tsaritsyn by Stalin and some cronies; it was the winding down of a very long, and brutal, Russian civil war that began with the turmoil unleashed by the collapse of Russian military power in 1917. Then the Romanovs cracked down on the surviving Bolsheviks...

My initial reaction to seeing the thread title was, "well, shit, why didn't the police think of doing that?"

It sounded like the Tories only named him leader because it was either that, or their place gets taken by Mosley's crowd and they end up like the Liberals.

Hate is a strong word, but I think HW Brands wrote in his FDR bio that Roosevelt had some tendencies in him that had him lean against Germany because of experiences from his childhood, reinforced by the first war.