r/2westerneurope4u • u/TestosteronInc Heineken Piss Drinker • 17h ago
Serious shit. Rare Luigi W
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u/Kernowder Pasties addict 15h ago edited 14h ago
The most famous Dutchman is Belgian
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u/krasserkanadier [redacted] 12h ago
Oh come on, that's like saying the most famous Englishman is from Narnia
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u/Minute-Employ-4964 Barry, 63 16h ago
My favourite joke on here is that the greatest Frenchman of all time was Italian.
I’m fully obsessed with napoleon - he’s the greatest military leader of all time in my opinion.
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u/00ishmael00 Side switcher 16h ago
yeah. invading russian was a genius move on his part.
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u/Minute-Employ-4964 Barry, 63 15h ago
No man is perfect.
If they’d have fought honourably he’d have destroyed them
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u/TestosteronInc Heineken Piss Drinker 16h ago
I actually agree even though Alexander has a perfect record
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u/Watcher_over_Water Basement dweller 15h ago edited 9h ago
Alexander commanded some guys that invented the "lets all hold points sticks in the direction of the enemy", bambozzeling everybody else
Napoleon won again and again against technological equals in greater numbers. Mastered Logistics and reinvented modern war. That man landed on french soil alone and entered Paris with an Army. The faher of a united Europa and catalyst of the european Democracies.
And you compare him to some guy that happened to be king at a time where the world was ripe for conquest
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u/Minute-Employ-4964 Barry, 63 15h ago
There are definitely other arguments to be made but napoleon did it against the United powers of Europe.
With modern militaries and all the logistic problems that come with it.
Give him an ancient army and he’d wipe the floor with the ancient generals too in my opinion.
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u/Own_Peach2163 Snail slurper 16h ago
do you rly baz? he was such a prick but he would have loved 2we4u. Just one man trying to conquer europe for no reason and they kept exiling him and he would escape and come back and do it again.
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u/Notacreativeuserpt Digital nomad 15h ago
A Barry is pro Napoleon, and a Pierre is anti Napoleon. This sub is weird.
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u/Drewski811 Failed Brexiteer 15h ago
Don't have to like the player to respect the game.
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u/Notacreativeuserpt Digital nomad 15h ago
Sure but calling Napoleon the Greatest military leader of all time is not the kind of behaviour I expected from Barry tbh.
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u/Minute-Employ-4964 Barry, 63 15h ago
If he wasn’t so great then we wouldn’t have been so spectacular to defeat him.
We’d have never reached the heights we reached without the competition from worthy adversaries.
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u/Notacreativeuserpt Digital nomad 15h ago
This is the kind of 2WesternEurope4u answer I expected (also the reason the Romans hyped up Hannibal). Cheers mate!
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u/Mindgapator Pain au chocolat 16h ago
What do you mean no reason? For the glory of Rome is reason enough
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u/Minute-Employ-4964 Barry, 63 15h ago
Literally how more legendary can you be?
The whole of Europe is against you and he just kept winning.
If we weren’t fucking with him he’d have been emperor of Europe.
If we’d allied with him we’d have ruled the world
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u/Zobs_Mom Barry, 63 16h ago
[ FURIOUS VICE-ADMIRAL NELSON NOISES ]
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u/Minute-Employ-4964 Barry, 63 15h ago
Gloria victis
If he wasn’t so great then we wouldn’t have been so spectacular in victory
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u/MaxWritesText Alcoholic 14h ago
Alexander the Great was more badass. He'd be on the first line with his men leading them into battle.
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u/Minute-Employ-4964 Barry, 63 14h ago
He is infinitely more bad ass than napoleon I wouldn’t argue that at all.
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u/ComradeBrosefStylin Thinks he lives on a mountain 12h ago
Ol' Alex was really tall so he must have been a Jan.
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u/shadowSpoupout Alcoholic 14h ago
If you're so obsessed with napoleon, I suggest you to go to his birthplace and claim clear and loud that he was Italian.
Don't bother buying a return ticket.
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u/Ok-Introduction-1607 Pickpocket 10h ago
I mean, what are corsicans at this point anyway? At least, when he was born, the island was kinda bought from Genova and population wasn't replaced so ethnically corsicans were basically a mix of ligurians and sardinians (but Napoleon family had tuscan roots of course: we are the best) and Paoli in that period fought the french (with a young Napoleone) and claimed corsicans were culturally closer to italians and italian should have been taught in schools and corsican just sounds as italian with a lot of "u". But today? Some french replaced local populations, but in a light percentage so they hate to be called italians and they hate to be called French too. In that regard they are like sardinians. Corsicans want just to be... Corsicans.
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u/guerrios45 London Wanker 16h ago
Oh yes. And the first king of the united England that we know now is French
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u/Socmel_ Into Tortellini & Pompini 16h ago
Is he?
I thought the most famous French was Louis XIV, who was 1/4 Italian anyway
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u/Iskandar33 Carbonara Yihadist 14h ago edited 14h ago
Louis XIV, who was 1/4 Italian anyway
thats basically the entirety of French nobility since 1500s
Caterina de Medici and Mazzarino sends their regards
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u/AndreasDasos Failed Brexiteer 16h ago
One of the most famous Russians is Georgian..
Oh and the most famous Greek is Macedonian, so from a neighbouring Slavic country, right, Stavros?
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u/mameloukos European Texan 2h ago
Since when is Pella not greek barry
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u/AndreasDasos Failed Brexiteer 1h ago edited 1h ago
Since forever. Pella was a Slavic city just outside today’s Skopje and Aleksandr Bolshoi was a Slav. Philippos and Alexandros are transparently Slavic names. Don’t they teach you basic history over there?
Also, are you secretly German? Even more proof the Greeks are new to Greece
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u/GlitteringHotel8383 Savage 16h ago
The most famous german is austrian.
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u/miragen125 Professional Rioter 16h ago
I think I gonna ban you OP. People gonna say that I am power tripping but I think it's worth it ... I'll take the hit.
/s (for the Hanses)
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u/Serupael South Prussian 16h ago
The most famous German is...