re: Alexander The Great needs a new epic series

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contrast that with Hitler...a nobody who went from a failed wannabe painter to the most notorious man in history who almost conquered the world.

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Hitler didn’t “almost conquer the world”

Hitler’s plan to conquer Europe had no chance of working as soon as he invaded Russia. He stretched his country to the brink, had anyone who questioned him frozen out or executed, forcing children and old men to fight at the end, then dying like a coward, all while commuting genocide trying to exterminate an entire religion (which he failed to do).
-failed to stabilize Germany
-failed to build an army that could last
-failed to conquer Europe
-failed to exterminate the Jews

So basically he was a crazy lunatic that used a social and economic collapse to seize power in a crippled country, radicalized the youth, then drove the country further into the ground. He failed at literally everything, including art.

Alexander actually accomplished all of his goals and more.