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WHAT COULD BE SOME OF THE HARDEST DECISIONS THAT KINGS MIGHT HAVE HAD TO MAKE?
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Closeauthor=GreatRedSpirit"I want to marry Anne but the pope won't annul my current marriage to Cathrine, what do I do?""how big should my codpiece be in armor today?"
- King Henry the VIII
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Shinan
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The hardest decision any king has to make is who to appoint to rule in his stead (and also who to appoint as food taster). After that it's all parties and cake and demanding that the the one who rules in his stead bring up some money for parties and cakes and the occasional monument or building.
meustrus
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author=Feldschlacht IV
War, actually.
There's a lot of examples of historical rules who got their rocks off constant conflict and such, and of course there have been wars that could be argued as necessary and inevitable (wars against invasions, etc), but there's countless instances throughout history where the decision to go to war or not isn't so clear cut. This is especially considering wise rulers who had a lot to think about whether or not it would be wise to commit their country to conflict.
You're a ruler of Nation A, and Nation B is antagonistic towards your nation, but doesn't want to engage your country directly, but instead ceases vital trade with your nation and takes over nearby arable land and fishing. If you don't do something, your people will starve. Will you send your country to war to defend your country's assets? Either way, people will die.
In the modern era, these scenarios don't exist too much anymore, so it's easy to consider war as a last of a last resort for most everything, but hundreds of years ago or longer, these sort of things happened all the time. As a ruler, you had some tough choices to make.
Yes. Foreign policy is the #1 responsibility of any government, from tribal leaders to dictatorships to modern democracies. Even if he doesn't give a rat sass about building roads or protecting the people from famine, a ruler is still responsible for protecting the country from external threats. Even selfish dictators have to build walls to at least protect themselves, and it's a good idea to make sure the farmlands don't get taken over or burnt or the farmers killed or enslaved or any of that because then who will grow the food for your banquets?
