Which historical characters is this guy based on or similar to?
I'm looking to read about some Machiavellian figures from history.
Cheers
>>1334335
anyone...
Machiavelli
>>1334384
Machiavelli wasn't Machiavellian
Nice try
>>1334384
Littlefinger rose from nothing to have money, land and "an army" (not his, but can command at will)
>Be moderately wealthy man in city state
>Be smart enough to get on that city state government administration because the actual rulers are too bussy fucking boipucci and getting involved in stupid court intrigues but fool enough to not take power or try to improve his stagnant situation
>When ruling party of morons is ousted gets sent to a cuckshed for the rest of its life
>write a book how to rule based on what he objectively saw yet shilling for Borgia son who was murdered
> No money
> No land
> No army
Still we have plenty of real characters who rose from obscurity to have almost absolute power, its pretty much common. If you want to equal them to littlefinger, that reduces them to the guys who rose to power not by martial ways but by court scheming. So in this list we would have.
>Most of the monk popes on early and early medieval church history
>some merchants
>Most of usurper court kings
>one or two roman emperors
>that bizantine whore empress
>>1334335
Every mentally healthy politician and ruler would be aware of the balance of power and would have been raised from infancy to understand this or figured it out for themselves during their rise to power. They would have certainly been far more competent than the derpy rulers of westeros with their amusing character flaws, better even than le memewizard CIA and his chaosh is a ladder philosophy.
Maintaining a network of informants was important to prevent corruption in everyday administrative tasks, every ruler would be doing this and it wasn't an ordeal for them to extend this to spying on rival states.
This guy I guess is a good example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Walsingham
>>1334436
also many 20th century dictators
>>1334436
>gets sent to a cuckshed for the rest of its life
heh, if only the cuckmeme was used properly like this, /pol/ ruined it
Stalin was the ultimate Machiavellian
>>1334436
Thomas Cromwell
From humble origins to one of the most powerful men in England.
Also said to have read The Prince.
>>1334335
maybe you can read about Talleyrand. Not a big fan but he seemed like a bit of fun. Also it would appear he was way beyond littlefinger could ever be.
>"Laws can be raped silently"
>"Treason is about timing"
>>1334335
A big guy
>>1334335
The jews
Alexios Komnenos perhaps?
>>1335142
>the side with more females won
This obviously means women are naturally the best fighters :-DD t. sociology pro
