ITT people that were always one step ahead of everyone else

>>2837532
>people that were always one step ahead of everyone else

Not towards the end of his life.

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>>2837532

>>2837594
I was about him. So fare ahead nobody could follow in his footsteps.

>>2837598
Fuck, he even anticipated the rise of socialism and thwarted it by implementing social policy himself

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Modern day Varys or Littlefinger

>>2837532
>tfw you out-anglo the anglo

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>>2837628
>thwarted it
erm

>>2837981
Not that guy, but did Socialism take hold in Germany on its own? It didn't, so he did thwart it. The DDR was essentially under Soviet occupation for the entirety of its existance.

>>2837594
Too bad he had never been one step outside of Prussian autism.

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>ctrl f
>no Augustus

You all disappoint me.

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Hello just being the greatest ruler in recorded history.

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>>2837532
he even killed himself before he got captured! what foresight!

>>2837532
Was he in the right, /his/ ?

>>2840971
he's the single biggest reason France was treated leniently after the napoleonic wars and wasn't put into a post-WW1 germany situation, he's a Varys type character looking out for what's best for France even if it means doing some shady shit. Some say he "betrayed the revolution" but his actions allowed further revolutions to happen without outside influence, ultimately allowing for republics to form via his insistence on peace and nonintervention in europe. If your a napoleon fan it's understandable to feel like he undermined a great man, but he made sure napoleon's mistakes didn't cripple the future of France.

>>2840888
>Stalin, the legroom