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On 4 March 2022, it was proposed that this article be moved from Strongman (politics) to Political strongman. The result of the discussion was moved.

Concern

This looks a lot like the long-deleted "list of dictators" article. Sure, such a thing should exist somewhere, but not in Wikipedia mainspace. —Sesel (talk) 01:09, 10 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nayib Bukele

How on earth is he being included in the same class as the brutal monsters we know are actually strongmen? Because he's tough on murderous gangs? Alexandermoir (talk) 12:00, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Strongmen most likely initiate conflict more than democracies

Given the fact that the country with the highest count of invading other countries for the past 70 years is a democracy and the fact that through out history the countries that had the most Progressive systems were much more prone to war than “strongman countries” eg the British Empire with a Parliamentary system Still called for Concentration camps in its Genecidal campaigns in Africa its estimated that across the world they killed 78 million people that are undocumented in the their last 100 years, the Portuguese in the Congo and the U.S Middle East campaign that cost the deaths of 15 million people and LibyaMalusi07 (talk) 21:13, 11 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This article should mention strongmen from ancient history

This article is focused on modern-day strongmen but does not have content on historic strongmen - especially ancient historical examples. For instance Julius Caesar. BlueberryA96 (talk) 05:38, 24 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]