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Which of today's political leaders is most like Napoleon?

2023-11-26 22:59:33Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Which of today's political leaders is most like Napoleon?

Paul Dallison – Politico.eu

“The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemy's."

So said Napoleon Bonaparte, French military commander and political leader.

All political leaders want power (whether they admit it or not), but few will manage to secure even a fraction of that achieved – for better or worse – by Napoleon Bonaparte, the subject of a new film out this year. week.

But which of the current leaders – and some from the not-too-distant past – can match Napoleon?

To find out, Politico has come up with a completely unscientific ranking system in which it takes some of Napoleon's most famous characteristics to see who best fits him.

Emmanuel Macron

Seriously? If anyone can be described as the modern incarnation of Napoleon, it is the current emperor of France, with his penchant for projecting French glory and his love of gilded palace interiors.

Macron, like Bonaparte, grew up outside Paris and came out of nowhere to storm the political world and seize power in record time.

Commemorating the bicentenary of Napoleon's death in 2021, Macron fully embraced the emperor's great legacy in building most of the institutions of the modern French state, from the criminal and civil codes to appeals courts and secondary schools.

He described him as "monster and eagle, Alexander and Nero ... the soul of the world and the demon of Europe".

Macron also, like Napoleon, is not the first person you would go to if you needed help reaching an item on a high shelf.

Petr Pavel

The Czech president was actually a soldier and saw active service, rising to the rank of army general.

Pavel also looks badass riding his motorcycle, which Napoleon would definitely have done if they had been invented

Ursula von der Leyen

Napoleon slept in a camp bed during the campaign, as did the president of the European Commission at Berlaymont.

However, von der Leyen is an excellent horsewoman, while Napoleon was a poor horseman, better suited to artillery. Indeed, Napoleon's willingness to sacrifice countless horses in battle ultimately undermined his military ambitions.

His most famous horse, Marengo, survived him, while von der Leyen's pet pony, Dolly, fared less well, being killed by a wolf.

Olaf Scholz

Meets height requirements but falls woefully short in other areas.

While Scholz is big on military spending, as was Napoleon, the German chancellor chose to do his national service in a nursing home rather than a barracks.

Scholz was also a leftist and Napoleon would have fired at him to drive him and his kind off the streets.

Boris Johnson

In the Egyptian campaign, Napoleon abandoned his troops and ran home, putting his own interests above those of his soldiers. Do you remember someone?

Napoleon was also a seducer – his nemesis, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, is said to have seduced two of Napoleon's many former lovers, opera singer Giuseppina Grassini and actress Marguerite-Josephine Weimer.

The French emperor is believed to have had eight children (one less than Johnson, as far as we know).

Donald Trump

He has a very high opinion of himself, which is very similar to Napoleon.

But many points were removed because of the real horror of any kind of war. According to his former lawyer, Trump said he faked an injury to avoid military service because "I wasn't going to Vietnam."

While Trump received a doctor's note, Napoleon took a bullet in his ankle at the Battle of Regensburg.

The French commander was not even deterred by a bayonet wound to the thigh. While the Brumaire coup of 1799 brought Napoleon to power as First Consul of France, the January 6, 2021 coup did not return Trump to the White House.

Vladimir Putin

Like Napoleon, Putin loves a palace and, like Napoleon, Putin loves a war.

Napoleon is believed to have died after being poisoned. "I die before my time, killed by the English oligarchy and its assassin" - with a story that suggests that arsenic vapors from the British background on St. Helena finished him off.

Meanwhile, Putin loves a good poison, as long as they are the ones administering it.

And while Napoleon is long dead, Putin is definitely alive (as the Kremlin can point out every week).

Keir Starmer

One of Napoleon's most famous sayings is that "when your enemy is making a wrong move, you must be careful not to interrupt him." This saying is taken very much to heart by the UK Labor leader, who does next to nothing while his political opponents keep shooting themselves in the foot and in the face.


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