>The great questions of the day will not be settled by means

just another autocrat trying to self justify by saying freedom isn't important and implying democracies are inherently weak

>>1509453

He meant exactly what he said.

>>1509461
But its true though. The more powerful a nation gets the more undemocratic it becomes.

Fuh reals though

The great questions in western countries (the ones people are asking) currently ARE being decided by speeches and majority decisions.

Is democracy built upon the implicit threat that "you should do what we say or else we'll resist", in effect a challenge to violence?

>>1509475

Which is why the countries with conservative monarchs lost to two bourgeois republics and a constitutional monarchy in WWI, right?

>>1509453
he was a politicians
politicians say things to justify their positions, so I would take this quote with a grain of salt

>>1509475
>The more powerful a nation gets the more undemocratic it becomes.

Even if this is true, this doesn't prove that the more undemocratic a nation gets the more powerful it becomes.

>I hate krauts who disagree with me but I hate other countries even more

What did he mean by this?

>>1509569
>>1509453
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ztOV2wrrkY

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>>1509563
>mfw people unironically fall for the strong leader meme

He meant that the idealogical struggles had become the new casus belli, and he was right
Every war since WW2 was idealogically motivated

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>>1509453
He was on of the best.
>Relpolitik is truly the way to lead a country.

He tried to convince the parlament to increase military founding, so that he could demonstrate Prussias power against the great powers of Europe, because otherwise the other german states wouldn't join a union under Prussia.

>>1509563
>lmao if he's so strong why did he get beat up when he was outnumbered
^(((You)))

>>1509453
What he meant was that mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell.