Instances of factions or nations where literally everyone is incompetent as shit but they are somehow still winning because they have One Guy that's completely carrying their asses.
>>18616252As evil as Stalin might've been, the fact the Soviet Union quickly fell apart without him (owing in large part to Khrushchev's De-Stalinization) proved he was the one holding it all together.
>>18616261The USSR barely survived WW2 despite Stalin's incompetence, if he lived longer the USSR would have collapsed even sooner which desu would have been a pretty good outcome.
>>18616252It's literally on the catalog
>>18616264Hell no. Say what you want about Stalin's leadership abilities but by the end of WW2 he had acquired so much fear and respect he had become a quasi-mythical figure. The USSR would remain stable for as long as he lived simply because there was no one who would dare to move against him.
>>18616264Stalin's biggest mistake in WWII was the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, sure, but he still kept the country united enough in a greater fear of him than the enemy to throw enough waves of Russians into the meat grinder to preserve their nation. That *is* an achievement.
>>18616261But its the opposite the ussr fell apart exactly because of stalin.Stalin killed off everysingle actually competent politician during his purges and so once he died he left behind nothing more than dull yes-men or scheming opportunists.>owing in large part to Khrushchev's De-Stalinization)De-stalinization didnt really fundamentally alter the way the soviet union worked in anyway all it did was destroy stalins personality cult and and make the justice system less cruel
>>18616252It's actually insane how hard he carried the CCP, and I'm saying this as an anti communist
>>18616265Hannibal was the Hitler of his time AKA a total fraud
>>18616296Stalin's personality cult + a cruel justice system was the basis of what kept the Soviet Union together: fear. Undoing that only served to open the floodgates to Westernization which ended up unraveling the Union altogether.
>>18616306>destroying Roman armies on cd while every other Carthaginian commander is getting gaped >fraud
Surprised no one mentioned him yet. One of the greatest examples of "the moment I die this is all going to shit."
>>18616777>Instead Spain becomes a stable democracy.That sounds like a him problem.
>>18616777Was his win that impressive? Not familiar with Spanish history but didn't all the best army units defect to his side from the get go and he got funneled basically infinite money and ammunition from the Germans and Italians?
For late romeStilichoAetiusMajorianAll 3 were just one guy maintaining an army and alliances intact that were holding the empire together.
Yi Sun-sin, Korea would have become an imperial jap province like 500 years before without him
>>18616838Aetius in Italian turned into Ezio, and that's the name they know him by nowadays. Thought it was cute.
>>18616276>he had acquired so much fear and respect Kind of fear and respect that you give to insane maniac with which you share room just to avoid provoking him to turn room into bloodbath.
>>18616261>the fact the Soviet Union quickly fell apart without him38 years
>>18616838Better example would be Ricimer. Stilicho was causing just as many problems as he was solving. Aetius was a ruthless ladder-climber who deserves praise for holding back the Huns but had no problems plunging the empire into civil war over his job. Ricimer was the true hero of the late western empire.
>>18616882It was in terminal decline long before it actually collapsed
Fuck communism and all of that but this cheeky motherfucker single handedly cucked the entire US Government for half a century. I’ve gotta respect it.
>>18616777It was going to shit for a long time already. Not his fault.
Not that Britain was really that incompetent but he alone truly saved their ass on this one. Before him, the Nile or Trafalgar would have ended on a draw or the destruction of 2-3 ships of the line. He was the first admiral to truly achieve the total destruction of the ennemy fleet and that's what granted GB victory on the long run. They had other good admirals but concerning land forces, british general of that time were at best above the average and were only carried by the circumstances allowed by the naval supremacy granted by Nelson or by other nations at war.
>>18616261His methods might have been distasteful but he did what he had to do; Lenin and Trotsky were two of the biggest secret kings of all time.
>>18616261>quicklythe SU existed for longer after his death than before it
Can this apply to families? The Vandals were basically the weakest and smallest Germanic tribe. It's surprising the held out as long as they did without Gaiseric. Without any formal education he was evidently a genius, militarily if not otherwise. But when I try to read between the lines of his grandson's history, Hilderic and Justinian were surprisingly close over the course of decades. It seems Hilderic was trying to slowly bring Tunisia back into the Nicene fold to help re-establish the empire even. It's a shame the Vandals couldn't do what the Franks could and Romanize in some crucial direction, without totally abandoning the culture that molded them. Without that family at the helm it fell apart quickly after nearly a century of overcoming odds that still don't seem possible. The magnitude of destruction to the Western Roman Empire caused by the Vandals made Atilla blush. Aetius is a great example of the one competent guy holding it all together, though. He rightly viewed Atilla as the more impending danger. At least with Vandals, you can still buy grain. Come to think of it, Atilla is a good example of this as well. This whole era proves Carlyle right.
>>18616880I also consume the propaganda while being smug about it
>>18616307Stalin's death opened the path to total Semetic control of the world.
