conquest of monaco...
I want to pose an idea here in all seriousness. well, mostly in seriousness, but you get the point.
watching the funeral of the late prince ranier of monaco last week, I was reminded of the fact that there is something of a constitutional crisis in monaco. it seems that the crown of monaco can only run through the male heirs of the house of grimaldi. so if prince albert dies without issue -- as seems likely give the fact that he is now 49 years old, has never been married, and may well be gay -- then the crown fails and sovereignty escheats to france.
fuckin' france.
I'll be damned if I am going to let the dirty french get their hands on monte carlo.
so it occurs to me that if albert dies without an heir, I could get a few friends together and perhaps hire a few dozen mercenaries (maybe up to 100) and together we could land on monaco's shores and I could declare myself prince of monaco. after all, if it's good enough for william of orange, then why can't I pull it off.
and honestly, who is going to oppose me? the people of monaco? all 30,000 of them? they have no military other than the palace guards (who should be loyal to me since I am the new prince), so that won't be a problem.
who else is going to have a problem? france? perhaps, but given the constitutional problem that would arise from the death of albert and the lack of an heir, my claim to the throne would be as legitmate as anyone's. so it wouldn't really be a foreign invasion, now would it? and even if france did object, what are they going to do about it?
who else? the united nations? doubt it. the united states? the president would probably find it embarrassing that an american citizen was going overseas conquering small insignificant little european countries, but it is hardly worth the effort to send an american marine task force over there to kick me out.
so really, I don't see a flaw in this plan. I mean, at the end of the day, if monaco is going to insist on running a pretend country, why can't I conquer it with a pretend army?
applications being accepted as we speak.
I want to pose an idea here in all seriousness. well, mostly in seriousness, but you get the point.
watching the funeral of the late prince ranier of monaco last week, I was reminded of the fact that there is something of a constitutional crisis in monaco. it seems that the crown of monaco can only run through the male heirs of the house of grimaldi. so if prince albert dies without issue -- as seems likely give the fact that he is now 49 years old, has never been married, and may well be gay -- then the crown fails and sovereignty escheats to france.
fuckin' france.
I'll be damned if I am going to let the dirty french get their hands on monte carlo.
so it occurs to me that if albert dies without an heir, I could get a few friends together and perhaps hire a few dozen mercenaries (maybe up to 100) and together we could land on monaco's shores and I could declare myself prince of monaco. after all, if it's good enough for william of orange, then why can't I pull it off.
and honestly, who is going to oppose me? the people of monaco? all 30,000 of them? they have no military other than the palace guards (who should be loyal to me since I am the new prince), so that won't be a problem.
who else is going to have a problem? france? perhaps, but given the constitutional problem that would arise from the death of albert and the lack of an heir, my claim to the throne would be as legitmate as anyone's. so it wouldn't really be a foreign invasion, now would it? and even if france did object, what are they going to do about it?
who else? the united nations? doubt it. the united states? the president would probably find it embarrassing that an american citizen was going overseas conquering small insignificant little european countries, but it is hardly worth the effort to send an american marine task force over there to kick me out.
so really, I don't see a flaw in this plan. I mean, at the end of the day, if monaco is going to insist on running a pretend country, why can't I conquer it with a pretend army?
applications being accepted as we speak.
