Explanation: Albert I was King of Belgium during WW1. Despite the era of monarchs at the front being long-over at this point, Albert made a special point of visiting the frontlines regularly, as Belgium was overrun and occupied in-no-small-part by the German Empire, for which reason he gained the nickname of 'the soldier-king'.

He was also a major reformer, being part of the post-war Belgian consensus for universal suffrage, and a dedicated conservationist - a then-still-radical position.

Albert succeeded his uncle Leopold II

Albert had a master class of what not to do.

And Zelensky basically do same. Both gigachad.

Big improvement over his uncle, who didn’t even chop a finger to help.

Well

It's not like he would be participating in charges. You'd be pretty safe as long as you're at least one trench behind the front. The whole reason WWI had trench warfare was that airplanes which could bomb from the sky didn't exist.

They definitely did have planes that could fly over and drop things, just not that many

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