Your parallels are correct, and I won’t argue that point.
It’s just a funny thing either way, and it would be interesting to see how they’re both regarded in another 200 years.
Aside from being more recent history, I’d suggest that the two major differences between the two would be the following:
NB did not attempt to exterminate a race of people.
NB invaded Russia when it was an imperialist monarchy, not when it was a holy paradise of the socialist peepel’s republik. (sarcasm, but when you think about it, the media loved AH right up until 1941, go figure)
Anyway, good day to you, or at least hopefully decent enough for a Monday
> it would be interesting to see how they’re both regarded in another 200 years <
Yes, indeed. Napoleon will certainly fare better, for - I think - two reasons. As you said, he never tried to exterminate a race of people. And two, there were no photographers in his day. No one to capture images of all those dead Frenchmen in the snow.
And good day to you as well. It has been an interesting conversation!