Was Caesar justified in his actions versus Gaul and then later the Senate of Rome?

Was Caesar justified in his actions versus Gaul and then later the Senate of Rome?

He murdered thousands and thousands of soldiers died under his orders entirely because of his personal greed and ambitions. Civil wars should be avoided at all costs but he went headlong into it. Then after his death there were more civil wars and more deaths.

>justified

To himself? Sure. To the Gauls? They saw him as a tyrant, a murderer, an enslaver and a destroyer of their culture and freedoms. Objectively? No such thing as objective justification.

power corrupted him. Though, he was always impious.

Should he have surrendered his armies and accept execution by the senate simply because they felt threatened by a populist with an army?

If he valued the state above himself, as a proper patriot should, yes. Or accept exile.

An unjust peace is better than the most just civil war.

Why should he value the state above himself? The senate had been killing populist leaders for a century before him, the only difference is that Caesar had an army.

If modern niggas can give us money demands for dem reparations can we snowniggas do the same to modern Italians?

Asking for a friend.

Value a system that is fucking over poor Romans left and right?

>If he valued the state above himself,
>Value a system that is fucking over poor Romans left and right?
yeah what about valuing the nation over the state. the state that fails at serving the nation?
Patriotism should be about the nation first not state.

The Gauls had it coming ever since the sack of Rome.

Stop samefagging Cicero

justifiable by who? according to Caesar it was, according to the Senate it was not. Today some view it as genocide and say it was not (people today by and large being retarded). I say justified, glory to Rome.

>justified in his actions versus Gaul
Absolutely. Rome had fought Gallic armies many times before. The Cimbri and the Teutons, invaders to Rome had Gallic allies. Hannibal had Gallic allies. Caesar was absolutely correct in his decision for pacification. If you read his commentaries you'll know that he was often merciful with tribes that go as far as to betray him.
>and then later to the Senate of Rome
Um, yes? The Senate had killed every populist reformer since the Gracchi brothers. Caesar was looking forward to a death sentence if he disbanded his army, only after bringing huge chunks of land and money to the Province. If he took dictatorial power he could finally fix the Republic, but we'll never know if he would have succeeded since the very same people he spared in the Civil War murdered him.

>An unjust peace is better than the most just civil war.
congratz you made me fucking mad

>Power corrupted him

Lolwat? As opposed to the Senate that literally assassinated anybody that tried to reform the system to be less bullshit?

Fuck the plebs.

fuck the optimates

>thousands
About a million, actually

Reform the system?he destroyed the republic what kind of reform is that

The republic was stagnant, and the leadership was only serving the rich while many had no work and starved.

>read this propaganda

This is right

Pretty sure if he lied about offering tribes clemency his soldiers and generals would've pointed that out at the time. He couldn't get away with lying about that, even if he wanted to.

cannibalizing the senate and starting a welfare state isn't good either. Personally, I like how the war turned out.

What the fuck was his problem?

that's sulla not cato you retard