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selenak ([personal profile] selenak) wrote in [personal profile] cahn 2020-10-09 06:31 am (UTC)

Re: Stratemann

Seckendorff: Young man, granted, you got laid and crowned, but did you achieve anything for either Saxony or Poland from the Russians? You didn't. Meanwhile, I had FW conducting Imperial-friendly policy until the wedding of Junior with our candidate of choice, and the reason it didn't continue this way had nothing with me but with fools in Vienna suddenly reversing course on the candidate of choice. I therefore still lay claim to the crown of most successful envoy. As for you, Mitchell, no matter how much the royal brothers liked you, did Fritz do anything for Great Britain? As I recall from my lodgings in Magdeburg, he kept asking for more money, talked trash about the Hannovers' family lives and your PM's political craft, and then named asses after your politicians when the the subsidies stopped altogether. Neither of you got your target monarch to act against his own interests and in yours, which is what I achieved. I am the very model of a major envoy general.

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