Has there ever been an instance of a leader hiding his true power level to climb the ranks and unleash his real agenda...

Has there ever been an instance of a leader hiding his true power level to climb the ranks and unleash his real agenda once at the top

Stalin

Night of the Long Knives, and Jimmy Carter

Stalin. Think Trotsky would have done the same.

Hitler was never hiding his power level. The NOTLK was more about cleaning ranks.

Salvador Allende, not even close.

Hitler was a spineless moderate who killed off the radicals in the NSDAP.

Hirohito

You mean the autists who would have fucked up Germany harder than Hitler managed to do?

>Hitler fucked up Germany

He went full retard when he declared war on everybody and expected to win.

He actually believed the japs could beat the USA.

I'm not making this up.

He had good domestic policies and shit foreign policies.
Pretty much the reverse Reagan.

>He actually believed the japs could beat the USA.

Myth, read Zweites Buch. Hitler was under no delusion that Japan could take America by itself in 1941: he was simply running out of viable options.

GB and France declared war on him. Get your basics straight.

he could have supported China from the start instead of being retarded. Easy to flank the Soviets and with some training and supplies they could have pushed back the Japs.

No easy excuse for the US to enter the war. International support.

>Zweites Buch
Literal forgery.

He had some very bad domestic policies as well. Mainly economic ones.

He never should have let them in the Axis in the first place.

Hell if he had any sense he would have improved relations with the western powers and wait for stalins attempt to attack Europe.

Then he could have steamrolled to the Urals maybe even with western support.

Petty WW1 revanchism was his doom.

>declare war on someone
>they decide to call in allies
>all of a sudden this means you didn't declare war

>He never should have let them in the Axis in the first place.
This goes double for Italy. Strategically the worst ally possible for Germany.

He should have known that GB and France were going to declare war on him the moment he invaded Poland. If he didn't have a plan prepared for when the Allies would eventually stop fucking around, then he was as retarded as user says he is.

Bonaparte

Nixon, although I can't tell if it was him or Kissinger calling the shots

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what exactly did he do to piss off the leafs now?

Name one thing stalin did that lenin didn't, shit Stalin was more moderate than lenin if anything

Yes.

What do you choose?

>A bunch of washed up criminals, bullies and radicals looking to keep the National Socialist revolution an endless one led by a homosexual with a inferiority complex

>The full unflinching support of the Reichswehr

You can only choose one.

The late King Juan-Carlos of Spain. Franco named him his successor under the impression that he would continue the fascist regime. Needless to say he did not.

I would also arguably say Bismarck, Henri Bourbon and James fit the bill as well.

>promised electoral reform during campaign.
>wins election
>"We have decided that the desire for electoral reform is low."

Dude weed lmao

>"We are in a time of dangerous politics. You must never do anything as a politician who understands what's at stake that feeds cynicism," mused Green party leader Elizabeth May. "Cynicism has enough to feed itself. It is work to feed hope. It is work to feed faith. And when you break faith you will reap what you sow."
damn

It's ok lads. Kevin O'Leary will save canadian politics. All bills and motions must be submitted in the form of a Shark Tank style pitch while Kevin sits on the throne in the house of Commons.

Wait do people consider Hitler turning Germany into a one party state, canceling elections and consolidating all power in his office as 'good domestic policy'?

>implying he didn't lose intentionally so that Germany could be divided and allowed time to recuperate and rebuild whilst basically being a puppet of both sides (can't lose) and becoming best buddies with USA and USSR (the krauts greatest opponents and ones he cannot beat)
>implying he wasn't playing 1000000000 dimension chess

Donald J. Trump

You are missing the bit where they tried to get their variety of electoral reform through (weighted ballots for eternal Liberal Govt) , could not convince the public to go for it (the people wanted proportional representation), then abandoned the idea because it was not going to serve the Liberal party.

>Kevin "I don't need to speak French" O'Leary
>Ever being PM

o im laffin

Socialism in one country.

Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, Ho Chi Minh, Hugo Chávez, and many others, pretended they were not communist/socialists to build up foreign and internal support before they could crush dissent.

idk what election you were watching

Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist first and a communist second. He was less about the ideology and more about uniting the Vietnamese people under an independent government and communism was just a convenient vehicle to accomplish that.

And Mao Zedong was just an agrarian reformer, and Fidel Castro was "decidedly anti-Communist".

I mean, New York Time journalists like Brooks Atkinson and Herbert Matthews said that, they couldn't possibly be wrong, could they?

Their own track records seem to indicate the truth of those positions. Being an authoritarian in charge of a command economy isn't the same as being a communist, otherwise we'd be going on about how Hitler was a commie (well actually, I've seen some elements of the far right claim that).

>Donald "grab 'em by the pussy" Trump
>ever being president

Let's not pretend stranger things haven't happened user

This is a very different situation; a large, important part of the country isn't going to get behind a guy who doesn't care enough to learn their language.

you are right the poles totally did destroy that radio tower.