What are some of the most interesting betrayals and switching of sides in history?

What are some of the most interesting betrayals and switching of sides in history?

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Italy WW1. Though they justified it by saying that it was only a defensive alliance and Austria declared war first

The proletariat fighting against their own interests

This unironically. It's literally proles fighting for capitalist vs. proles fighting for capitalists that pretend to be socialists, and the actual socialists don't ever even make an appearance. Meanwhile you got proles fighting both sides while claiming to be third position, but in reality they're just fighting for other capitalists.

There was literally a clause in the Triple Alliance that said neither Austria or Italy would attempt to change the status quo in the Balkans without consulting each other. But guess what the eternal Sp*rg did

>currently enjoy the highest living standards, age expectancy, access to education, access to technology, ability to travel, and upward social mobility in any period of history
>fighting against their interests

>you have it better than 1000 years ago, now be a good goy.

>on the verge of commercial space flight, synthetic organs, rapid advances in AI, rapid advances in computational technology, and soaring HDI in second and third world markets
>but muh ebil rich people eat slightly more expensive food than me

"Evil capitalism grrr"

Not like the only successful "Communist" nation, China, is actually getting something right because it really isn't Communism. Every other serious attempt beyond a localized commune has failed.

>soaring HDI in second and third world markets is a good thing

>be jewish messiah
>convert to islam

>b-but, it was necessary...

...

>ideology the post

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminius

>What are some of the most interesting betrayals and switching of sides in history?

Judas betraying Christ
The Jews stabbing Europe in the back, you can witness it right now

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm_Bloodbath

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arminius
>Nationalism is associated with the third reich, therefore many Germans after WW2 don't know about Arminius
How does nationalism make you a fucking Nazi

Meet foreigners, invite them into your city, give them food and gold, they take you captive, they murder your princes and nobles in a celebration...

Battle of Sekigahara that decided the establishment of Tokugawa shogunate. Two whole clans defected to the Eastern army from Western Army. Without those defections Tokugawa would have lost.

And WW2

Alcibiades. He went from the Athenian supreme commander, to being the Spartan supreme commander, to trying to become the Athenian supreme commander again, being spurned, and then watching Athens get defeated as a result. Guy was an absolute madman.

Yes because it means we can forcibly convert them to our values or leave them behind.

"I'm not a fan of dying"

Couldn't be helped, it was a "3 beers later" situation

I can literally make money out of thin air by trading e-money as a poor person you fucking retard. I will kill every fucking Communist in sight.

>The villain is at Honnō-ji!

War of the League of Cambrai. A display of Venetian perfidy second only to the Fourth Crusade.

Fourth crusade

Oh boy let me tell you about that time in January 1934 when Dimo Kazasov the FOUNDER of "Zveno" was convinced by former PM, accused dictator and now pro-fascist Alexander "The bloody professor" Tsankov to leave "Zveno" because he was promised a higher post and a government position and Kazasov told this to his second, Kimon Georgiev. This increased Georgiev's butthurt leading him to plot the second of three large coups in Bulgarian history, and he participated in all three despite two of them being fascist coups and one being a Communist one

surprised no one posted the spartans
>fought against the persians at thermopylae
>literally decades later they start taking persian coin to fight other greeks

T A L L E Y R A N D

wololo

Denazification and so on. It´s all linked to those 12 years to demoralize us and to destroy any probablity of Germany starting such a war ever again. It did more harm than good, destroying and demonizing a 2000 years long history. Literally every great german war hero or person that came before world war 1 is demonized to some extent because of it.

Not saying the allies didn´t have a point, but it went to far in some aspects.

this

I like to think that he just kept showing up to work and didn't worry about who was giving him orders

obviously that's not what happened but it's really funny to me

Why would something that happened literally decades ago be relevant?

Good post though because true