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#26
Benedict Arnold betrayed his own people all because he felt he wasn't getting the laurels he deserved (even though he already had plenty).
When the British learned there was a man on the inside, feeding them info, they thought it was a low ranked soldier. When they found out it was actually a decorated man, they were really annoyed, but kept face as they needed Arnold to play his scheme out.
It was seen as a massive dishonour that a officer with responsibility over other soldiers would betray his own men.
In the end when he defected to the British, they gave him a lower rank than they promised, paid him less than he expected and a lot of the British made it known they did not respect him for his actions.
When he eventually died in London, his funeral was completed without Military Honours.
Which is about as "*F**k you, you scummy t**t*" as it would get in Gentlemen terms at that time.
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#27
John Anthony Walker
My dad started in signals intelligence as an Airman in 1966, did that in uniform for 21 ½ years, then another 14 as a civilian executive with 2 or 3 alphabet agencies. He was intimately acquainted with the systems Walker betrayed. More importantly, he was officially “read in” to the extent of that betrayal. It literally haunted him for the rest of his life. I took care of him in his last months and he told me the amount of damage Walker did was almost impossible to comprehend.
#28
**Robert E. Lee.** He swore an oath to uphold the Constitution. Instead, he k*lled more Americans than Osama bin Laden.
#29
Ephialtes of Trachis. He allegedly showed the Persians the mountain path so that they could defeat the Spartans at Thermopylae.
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#30
Thomas Midgley Jr., the American who betrayed humanity for the sake of profit and arguably ended being responsible for more indirect deaths than any other human being on Earth.
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#31
La Malinche is synonymous with traitor in Mexico due to her coordination with the Spanish during their conquest of the Aztecs. She was a Nahuatl tribeswoman who was gifted to the Spanish alongside other slaves when they defeated a tribe during an expedition into Mexico. She would go on to be a key interpreter for the Spanish as she spoke the Aztec language and would marry Hernan Cortes post conquest.
#32
The parents of that lobotomized Kennedy.
#33
Anyone who fought for the Confederacy.
#34
Maximilien Robespierre. Betrayed the National Convention, was a leading figure in the e*******n of Louis XVI, and was himself executed for being a traitor.
#35
Wang Jingwei, who collaborated with the Imperial Japanese to form a puppet state during the Second Sino-Japanese War. (WWII)
He’s basically the Philippe Petain of the East.
To a lesser extent, Akechi Mitsuhide could be considered a traitor as well. During the Sengoku Period (Warring States of Japan), he served under one of the three great Daimyos (Shoguns), Oda Nobunaga. He betrayed Nobunaga during the Honnoji Incident and laid siege to Honnoji temple, while Nobunaga was on the verge of unifying Japan.
Another Daimyo, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, would later unify Japan.
#36
I mean - there's Wu Sangui who opened the Shanhai Pass to the invading army and betrayed his entire country - is there anyone who comes close or surpasses him in the magnitude of their treachery and betrayal? We're looking for a single person, more or less - but close-knit groups of individuals are accepted as answers too - provided they were acting entirely as one and they were not the size of an army.
#37
Everyone at Uvalde.
#38
Mir Jafar.
hirako97
Arguably the worst possible guy historically sending the sub-continent into 150 years of slavery and making them from one of the richest to the poorest. Guy's impact is crazy.
#39
Robinhood app.
Significant_Menu_178:
At the height of the GameStop craze they disabled the buy button for that specific stock and AMC only. Since the GameStop craze was being pushed so heavily by Reddit, whose users overwhelmingly chose Robinhood as their trading platform of choice, it pretty much stopped all upwards price movement right in its tracks. That day could have been arguably one of the largest transfers of wealth from the rich to the poor in history. Ironic that an app called Robinhood is the reason it didn’t.
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#40
Alcibiades- Athenian general and statesman who was a foe of Sparta. He betrayed Athens at Messina during the Sicilian campaign. He fled Athens for Sparta to avoid the actions of his political rivals. He convinced Sparta to send troops to join the Syracusans against Athens. He fell afoul of the Spartans and fled to Persia.
He then worked to undermine the Peloponnesians (Sparta and allies) by advising the Persians on how to weaken them until the time was right to invade.
He then returned to Athens for several years before being forced into exile in Persia where he finished out his life.
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#41
Dermot MacMurrough, a minor king of Leinster who invited the invaders into Ireland.
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#42
Krasnov.
#43
Harkis, during the French colonization of Algeria.
Not only they sell their brothers to the enemy but also made themselves involved in the t*****e and interrogation of liberation militants.
#44
Erebus. Instigator of the Horus Heresy.
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#45
I have scrolled a long time and am shocked to not have seen any references to Brutus, Cassius, or Decimus? The betrayal and subsequent assassination of Caesar is likely among the most influential betrayals in history.
#46
My ex-wife Susan.
#47
I mean, Lu Bu simply *could not* stop betraying people.
#48
Nico Harrison.
Bobblefighterman:
You don't understand, that fat Euro likes drinking beer, he's a negative asset!
#49
That rat Judas.
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#50
Eve
for eating the d**n apple for all of us 😅.
