More Trump Political Satire

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10. He suffered from epileptic attacks, which were well hidden from all but his most trusted inner circle.

I suspect that was connected to the vomiting.

From what I've been reading, Napoleon was a lot like Hitler -- very convinced of his own greatness, but making huge blunders especially re. logistics and supply, with occasional brilliant victories which owed something to luck and capable officers -- against the British, with their more rigorously trained officers, he consistently came up short. Even if the allies hadn't defeated him, the French people were getting pretty sick of his constant "appetite for war", with his constant calls for conscripts to replace the ones lost in his previous campaigns. I've just reached the point where his disastrous campaigns in Iberia caused the age for conscription to drop to sixteen. He had lost two entire armies by that point and was grinding away at what was left of the current army -- and we haven't even gotten to the invasion of Russia yet. All in all, a pretty horrible "leader". But he's still remembered favorably by some. He did introduce the new French Code of Law, but also introduced an omnipresent secret police force, suppression of most newspapers, and imprisonment of his critics -- which went so far as execution in some cases. On balance, I'd say France (and Europe) would have been much better off without him.