think that one thing conquerors should be wary of is turning defeated countries into failed states failed states seem like they eventually sort of recover power but with really fucked up governments looking at what happened after the Qing and after the Hohenzollerns
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if the Coalition had ruined France at Vienna I bet the 19C would have been a nightmare for Europe perhaps Talleyrand should get even more credit
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It's sort of remarkable that 1848 didn't turn into a general clusterfuckhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1848 …
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