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Why Was Winston Churchill A Machiavellian Leader?

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Was Winston Churchill a Machiavellian leader? For me, that is a difficult question to answer. Society has given the term "Machiavellian leader" a negative connotation, but is it really a bad thing? When reading The Prince, I got the impression that a leader that followed Machiavelli's rules, for a lack of a better term, the leader will be quite successful. I feel as though the term "Machiavellian leader" should only apply to those who were successful. Based on that I've come to the conclusion that yes, Winston Churchill was a Machiavellian leader because of his success as a leader mostly when it came to dealing with war and the introduction of several programs. Churchill was definitely influenced by Niccolò Machiavelli's words in

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