How, you may ask, was the French Emperor from Corsica working with bin Laden nearly 200 years before the September 11 attacks?
Well, after Napoleon snatched defeat from the jaws of certain victory at Waterloo, Europe needed to establish a new 'balance of power'. This was done at the Congress of Vienna.
This balance of power created the autocratic regimes in Europe that spawned the 1848 rebellions. The rebellions were squashed more severely than a student at Kent State, and in the aftermath Prussia became a continental military power.
In 1871, Prussia used its newfound power to unite Germany. Flash forward to 1905, Kaiser Bill begins to build a hugassed navy, which scares the Brits into crapping out Dreadnoughts like Portsmouth's shipyards had collectively had severe diarhea.
The arms race caused tensions in Europe, of course. This led to Germany signing pacts with Austria for mutual defence, Britain and France entered into an allaince as well. In June 1914, the heir to the Austrian throne was killed in Bosnia. Austria used this as a pretext for kicking Serbia's ass. Russia said "hell noski" to that idea. Germany saw this as a good way to strike a blow at France and Russia, and Britain said "WTF?"
Thus the Great War began.
It lasted until 1918 and the Treaty of Versailles, in which Germany got screwed worse than a Mormon at a used car dealer. Also, France and britain were given control of the Middle East under League of Nations Mandates.
This led to Germany's economy going down the shitter and allowed the rise of Hitler. Hitler, as we know, started World War II.
In the aftermath fo World War II, Briatin was pretty well broke. They had to grant India and their African colonies independance. They could no longer afford to fulfill their mandates in the Middle East, so both the Frenchies and Brits left.
They left in such a hurry that they didn't prepare these new Middles Eastern states for independance properly. This led to all the crap that we're still dealing with today, including Islamic terrorists like bin Laden.
So, I think we can now all agree that Napoleon is to blame for the attacks on the World Trade Centre, the Iraq war, and anything else we don't like.
Well, after Napoleon snatched defeat from the jaws of certain victory at Waterloo, Europe needed to establish a new 'balance of power'. This was done at the Congress of Vienna.
This balance of power created the autocratic regimes in Europe that spawned the 1848 rebellions. The rebellions were squashed more severely than a student at Kent State, and in the aftermath Prussia became a continental military power.
In 1871, Prussia used its newfound power to unite Germany. Flash forward to 1905, Kaiser Bill begins to build a hugassed navy, which scares the Brits into crapping out Dreadnoughts like Portsmouth's shipyards had collectively had severe diarhea.
The arms race caused tensions in Europe, of course. This led to Germany signing pacts with Austria for mutual defence, Britain and France entered into an allaince as well. In June 1914, the heir to the Austrian throne was killed in Bosnia. Austria used this as a pretext for kicking Serbia's ass. Russia said "hell noski" to that idea. Germany saw this as a good way to strike a blow at France and Russia, and Britain said "WTF?"
Thus the Great War began.
It lasted until 1918 and the Treaty of Versailles, in which Germany got screwed worse than a Mormon at a used car dealer. Also, France and britain were given control of the Middle East under League of Nations Mandates.
This led to Germany's economy going down the shitter and allowed the rise of Hitler. Hitler, as we know, started World War II.
In the aftermath fo World War II, Briatin was pretty well broke. They had to grant India and their African colonies independance. They could no longer afford to fulfill their mandates in the Middle East, so both the Frenchies and Brits left.
They left in such a hurry that they didn't prepare these new Middles Eastern states for independance properly. This led to all the crap that we're still dealing with today, including Islamic terrorists like bin Laden.
So, I think we can now all agree that Napoleon is to blame for the attacks on the World Trade Centre, the Iraq war, and anything else we don't like.
--][img src=\'style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/dry.gif\' border=\'0\' style=\'vertical-align:middle\' alt=\'dry.gif\' /][!--endemo--] But to answer to your attack on Napoleon, I agree that he did cause some horendous things, like the burning of Moscow (i know the russians did that per se, but if he wouldn've started the campaign, it wouldn've happened)and death of thousand of french and european soldiers for his own dreams of conquest. He might have been a Bush of his times, but he's NOT to blame for WTC.
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