Any historical examples of this? Leaders who "won" but also lost?
Pyrrhus of Epirus
Hannibal
>>2709436
France in WW1
Leonidas
>>2709661
I fail to see what his sacrifice accomplished
>>2709441
He literally just lost though.
>>2709436
Leaders of Leningrad during WWII. They won in the sense that the city did not get captured by the germans, but as a result of getting a hero status from it and the autonomy during the siege they became too popular to the liking of the leadership in Moscow and they got purged after the war.