Has pardoning your enemies ever worked ever in history?
Nope.In fact, it's a strange thing to do.Might even lead one to believe that the enmity was staged.Feigned, if you will.
>>532390484>>532390609Operation Paperclip, but those guy's were actual ubermensch so they were graciously forgiven.
>>532390484In 1868, President Andrew Johnson granted a full pardon to former Confederate soldiers. The South ain't rising again anytime soon.
The Babylonian elites let Cyrus conquer them because they were sick of fighting each other and he was famous for being forgiving and he ended up creating the Persian empire. So yea there's that. Probably the greatest ruler in antiquity, idolized by Alexander himself who borrowed his epithet and restored his tomb.
>>532390755The current South is destroying the US with their MIGA
>>532390484if you pardon your enemies you win
>>532390484Worked for Christ didn’t it?
>>532390484it worked several times, they are called alliances, look it up>>532390609England had like seven kingdom before it was "unified" into one (this is, enemies where forgiven in exchange of a few concessions)
>>532390484It had some utility in ancient times. A king waging a war of conquest against enemy nations with the intention of keeping the nations mostly intact and functional might pardon the enemy king/leadership as a way of mollifying the population and showing them that their new leadership might not be so bad. See Cyrus supposedly keeping Croesus on board as an advisor after conquering Lydia. This isn't really something that's likely to be useful today, however.
>>532390484Caesar pardoned most of the senators/politicians who were fighting him in the civil war despite having to re fight them multiple times due to his pardonsWhen he finally won his 100-0 campaign against them (ending with him pardoning them all again) they stabbed him to death in senateSo yeah, it works
>>532390861An ebbing tide lowers all ships in the harbor. Or something like that.
>>532390484West Germany after WWII.Did it work?See what EU and Germany are doing and ask yourself.
