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The 25 most ruthless leaders of all time
Business Insider ^ | 3 Feb 16 | http://www.businessinsider.com/most-ruthless-2015-10/#gaius-julius-caesar-augustus-germanicus-aka-ca

Posted on 12/28/2016 10:34:47 AM PST by elhombrelibre

One man's hero is another man's tyrant, a popular aphorism goes.

But while we can argue the validity and virtue of certain political agendas, the callous methods by which some leaders attain their goals are less up to interpretation.

After all, no matter how a historian tries to spin it, ordering a tower to be constructed out of live men stacked and cemented together with bricks and mortar is pretty brutal.

Business Insider put together a list of the most ruthless leaders of all time featuring men and women who employed merciless tactics to achieve their political and military agendas.

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1 posted on 12/28/2016 10:34:47 AM PST by elhombrelibre
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To: elhombrelibre

Islam is responsible for more deaths than any ideology in history.

Mad Mo belongs at the top of this list.

His “religion” calls for perpetual war against the rest of the human race and they have been carrying it out for 1400 years.


2 posted on 12/28/2016 10:41:57 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents)
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To: elhombrelibre

The creator and resourcer of ISIS, Barack Hussein Obama, belongs on that list. Hundreds of thousands have died at the hands of ISIS.


3 posted on 12/28/2016 10:45:25 AM PST by Chauncey Gardiner
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To: elhombrelibre

I think these are more the 25 most brutal and bloodthirsty leaders of all time. I think ruthless implies more someone willing to do anything to acquire and maintain power - more amoral than immoral. For example, Caligula was more of a homicidal maniac than ruthless leader and his brutality didn’t to much for his maintenance of power and was, in fact, counter-productive. He was insane not ruthless. That’s why his reign (which he inherited) was so short and ended up with him being assassinated.


4 posted on 12/28/2016 10:47:29 AM PST by circlecity
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To: elhombrelibre

Ad Blocker not allowed Bye Bye!


5 posted on 12/28/2016 10:48:18 AM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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To: elhombrelibre

Putting Franco and Pinochet on the list is absurd. Franco saved Spain from the Communists and Pinochet did the same for Chile against an elected President who was a Soviet agent and traitor to his country.


6 posted on 12/28/2016 10:48:40 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: elhombrelibre

I was going to say where is Castro? Where is Kim? Or Assad?

But now I see that the list was from Jan. 2016 and excludes living individuals.

Don’t know why it doesn’t include Jung-Il, though. Or his father. Or Tojo.


7 posted on 12/28/2016 10:49:26 AM PST by Brilliant
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To: elhombrelibre

“He was eventually attacked by a group of guardsman and stabbed 30 times.”

I’ve often wondered why more of those in service to these thugs don’t take them out. You never know when the madman (or woman) you serve will turn on you. Best to do it first!


8 posted on 12/28/2016 10:49:50 AM PST by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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Romania’s Ceauchescu didn’t make the list?


9 posted on 12/28/2016 10:57:42 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: elhombrelibre

A decent list until the author shows his silly goofy left wing side.

Tomas de Torquemada who may have killed 20,000 over a 15 year period. That is not even Chicago level violence.

Franco? Pinochet? REALLY?

And

No Hugo? No Castro? No Mugabe? No Mendela? None of the tyrants of the Ottoman Empire?

And then no Mad Muhammad? The biggest mass murderer of history?


10 posted on 12/28/2016 10:58:17 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Pinochet did save Chile from Communism.

But he did it by loading all the Communists into helicopters, flying them out to sea, then dropping them in.

Any way you slice it, that’s pretty brutal.


11 posted on 12/28/2016 11:01:39 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: elhombrelibre

Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was more of a well-connected serial killer than a ruthless leader.


12 posted on 12/28/2016 11:09:44 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

He should have been on there instead of Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed.


13 posted on 12/28/2016 11:10:58 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I consider what would’ve befallen Chile under a Soviet-controlled dictator would be far worse. Most of said “victims” of Pinochet were domestic Communist terrorists and traitors. When dealing with pure evil, it’s not often a nice, clean affair.


14 posted on 12/28/2016 11:28:40 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Agree


15 posted on 12/28/2016 11:47:52 AM PST by 353FMG (AMERICA IS ALL THAT TRULY MATTERS)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Islam is responsible for more deaths than any ideology in history.

Timur is on the list, but his religion is nowhere mentioned.

Fidel Castro does NOT make the list, but Mary, Queen of Scots, and Franco do? I guess they want "balance".
16 posted on 12/28/2016 11:54:46 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: elhombrelibre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_killings_under_Communist_regimes


17 posted on 12/28/2016 11:59:20 AM PST by B212
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Just saw on Facebook a pictorial review of Chile from 1968-1973. Under Allende the Communist, from 1970-1973, Chile went from fairly prosperous to indistinguishable from modern-day Venezuela. The communists were growing bolder and more violent every day. I have little doubt what would have occurred.


18 posted on 12/28/2016 12:06:03 PM PST by Chaguito
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To: Dr. Sivana

The article is from early in the year and they specified they didn’t list living persons.


19 posted on 12/28/2016 12:15:29 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Je Suis Pepe)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

But he did it by loading all the Communists into helicopters, flying them out to sea, then dropping them in.


Sounds reasonable to me


20 posted on 12/28/2016 2:56:43 PM PST by saleman
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