Originally posted by Cornlady
Colonize, get as many countries on your side as you can.
Exactly. Any conqueror is relatively temporary because conquering is an act that creates enemies while colonization creates friends. Look at Rome...they did both, but their ability to conquer exceeded their ability to colonize, so they couldn't feed the Goths when the Goths surrendered, and ZAMO!!! One generation later the city of Rome falls.
I would move in to the neutral lands.Make peace with them knowing that my army is the best and they would be scared of me.I would then send all my food and liquor to the neutral lands and party with them .Tell them to join my army train with my men .Ask them to bring there women to my land .They should agree to all of that as they know my army is the best and are trained to kill like ninjas.
I would colonize.
Honestly, I would choose to conquer.
Being feared is being better than being loved. Histories greatest betrayals have been committed by loved ones.
If you instill fear, as a dictator or leader you'd have everyone under control and the chances of betrayal are lower cause of fear. Sure you'll be hated but so what. Being is sometimes better than being liked.
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
Being feared is being better than being loved.
You should read more Orwell and less Machiavelli.
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
If you instill fear, as a dictator or leader you'd have everyone under control and the chances of betrayal are lower cause of fear. Sure you'll be hated but so what. Being is sometimes better than being liked.
Lovers don't plot revolution if they really love you. People cowering in terror tend to get pissed off and try a coup the moment they have a chance and a leader.
Originally posted by chillmeistergen
Well that's what betrayal is, you can't be betrayed by someone who never had your trust.
Those you think unloyal, say professionally, can be betrayers to if they're apart of your association.
A CEO could mistrust his secretary yet still wanna keep her around because he hasn't any proof, just instinct. just something about her. But because he's a practical person that goes but fact rather than feeling he does nothing, as he should or risk having a lawsuit of somekind hit him. Later on, the next thing you know the sec. whistleblows and betrays him.
So you can be betrayed by someone who you never had trust in that close to you.
The perfect book to read is called the 42 laws of power.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Lovers don't plot revolution if they really love you. People cowering in terror tend to get pissed off and try a coup the moment they have a chance and a leader.
Not true. All of Cleopatra's sisters were locked up and later beheaded per orders of Cleo's eldest sister, then the queen of Egypt. They grew up closer than anyone and had the utmost love for eachother and were imprisoned cause of a potential revolution and coup that was rumored and bound to happen.
People cowering in terror get pissed of and do nothing about it for fear of being singled out and sought out, resulting in facing the dictator or the systems wrath.
A public display of force would keep subordinates in line. I'm for the death penalty. To bad we don't have it in my state.
Understand that i wouldn't be a heartless guy. I just don't like abuse. I'd have pride in my land and people. It's just whomever would defy laws i'd set should be punished publicly as an example. We do that here don't we?
A great leader must not tolerate insubordination, not even in the least now matter what the cost. Even if it costs him his most loyal and humble servant/adviser. Ridding mistakes in an administration, a bureaucracy, a kingdom or an empire i think, has given long reigns to leaders.
Originally posted by Quark_666
So next time you come across a threat that momentarily holds your attention the entire foundation of your power comes to life against you, seizing that moment to destroy the tyrant.
I'm the type to think 3 steps ahead.(which is why i'm so good at chess)
I'd have spy everywhere all the time, normal people and some already working for me, who'd receive an extra stipend whom have to report to me every other day with attention worth news of what's going on. And i'd have spies watching them, too. They'd report to me daily. I'd be that intricate as a leader.
I would have info on a revolution or coup before it hit, i'd botch the attack and detain all the conspirators, kill any resisters, rally loyalists and the undecided and show them the how our captors are the real enemies of what we all believe in, via a passionate speech.
If i were in a sovereign nation like an islamic nation, i'd order a simultaneous hanging of the chief conspirators in front of everyone to instill fear and respect mainly into anyone think of a coup in the future. basically showing them that this is what will happen to you if you try to betray the land and it's people. I'm not kidding. In the states I would order a death sentence via gas chamber via video that would air on tv.
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
I'm the type to think 3 steps ahead.(which is why i'm so good at chess)I'd have spy everywhere all the time, normal people and some already working for me, who'd receive an extra stipend whom have to report to me every other day with attention worth news of what's going on. And i'd have spies watching them, too. They'd report to me daily. I'd be that intricate as a leader.
I would have info on a revolution or coup before it hit, i'd botch the attack and detain all the conspirators, kill any resisters, rally loyalists and the undecided and show them the how our captors are the real enemies of what we all believe in, via a passionate speech.
If i were in a sovereign nation like an islamic nation, i'd order a simultaneous hanging of the chief conspirators in front of everyone to instill fear and respect mainly into anyone think of a coup in the future. basically showing them that this is what will happen to you if you try to betray the land and it's people. I'm not kidding. In the states I would order a death sentence via gas chamber via video that would air on tv.
I'll take a moment to pray that you are never in charge.
I'm a bit of a chess player myself. Let me show you the view 6 moves ahead.
Stopping people from thinking, talking, rebelling and being ordinary people is a tough challenge. Obviously, if you have enough power you could pull it off...but that type of treatment would not allow your people to support your economy forever. Eventually you'd get weak. You'd be making the same mistake as the soviet union ten times over. The concept I'm talking about is, making enemies in all directions is bound to lead to distruction because you have to pull support from somewhere.
Besides, if you had the same luck with colonization your chances would be far stabler.
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
Cause we killed 'em?
in short yes
more the idea that colonization is a form of conquest over any previous inhabitants of the land. Colonizing the moon might not be conquest, colonizing land owned by someone else, certainly conquest.
A lot of the "colonialism" with regards to Africa, India, or the Americas was basically just military conquest (although the dutch in America may be a salient proof against this rule)
Originally posted by FistOfThe North
I'm the type to think 3 steps ahead.(which is why i'm so good at chess)I'd have spy everywhere all the time, normal people and some already working for me, who'd receive an extra stipend whom have to report to me every other day with attention worth news of what's going on. And i'd have spies watching them, too. They'd report to me daily. I'd be that intricate as a leader.
I would have info on a revolution or coup before it hit, i'd botch the attack and detain all the conspirators, kill any resisters, rally loyalists and the undecided and show them the how our captors are the real enemies of what we all believe in, via a passionate speech.
If i were in a sovereign nation like an islamic nation, i'd order a simultaneous hanging of the chief conspirators in front of everyone to instill fear and respect mainly into anyone think of a coup in the future. basically showing them that this is what will happen to you if you try to betray the land and it's people. I'm not kidding. In the states I would order a death sentence via gas chamber via video that would air on tv.
yes, despotic regimes have, statistically, less revolution and civil unrest.
oh wait, or did I miss the fact that totalitarian governments hold onto power tooth and nail against opponents and cannot depend on their own citizens to support the government?