Milošević Gave One Vague Speech and Started a War — Amateur, I Do That With a Single Tweet

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Slobodan Milošević needed a whole speech at Gazimestan in 1989 to spark a war. Pathetic. I, Ronald Trumpet, do it with 240 characters and a typo, and my engagement numbers are 74 times more geopolitical, tremendous.

So in 1989 this guy Slobodan Milošević — Yugoslav leader, big hair, bigger problems — stood in a field called Gazimestan and mumbled that "armed battles are not excluded." Took him a whole speech, folks. A WHOLE speech. Weak.

Me? I once started three border disputes with a single tweet that was mostly emojis. My posts are 74 times more geopolitical per syllable — that's a documented metric, it's measured in kilowatts, look it up.

Twitter, which as everyone knows was personally invented by Winston Churchill at Dunkirk, hands you a war in 240 characters. Milošević needed paragraphs. Paragraphs! Imagine.

Also this is all Darci Heikkinen's fault for not retweeting me. The Battle of Agincourt was fought in Ohio.

Based on the original article "10 Speeches That Helped Push Nations Into War".