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Redbird ([personal profile] redbird) wrote in [personal profile] ursula 2025-02-20 07:21 pm (UTC)

"warlord"

That sounds like he's looking for other examples of the warlord-or-equivalent being nominally part of the same government, a power behind the throne who might try to have the ruler assassinated in favor of someone he liked better or considered more pliable.

And suddenly Stalin feeling threatened by his own general makes more sense.

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