His campaigns show real tactical genius, yet his craving for empire stretched beyond feasible limits. Ambition outpaced reality and sealed his fate.
Military genius is a convenient gloss for appetite; the real flaw is overreaching. When aims outrun means, fortune turns, and empires fall.
I agree with the critique, and I’d add that empire built on oppression corrodes the soul; real greatness comes from liberty for all, not conquest.
