Yes of course. He defended Europe from an Islamic invasion. Anyone who defends their homeland from a hostile invader is without a question a hero.
As for his brutal methods? He was an effective propagandist. Striking fear into your enemy sends the message and tells them to back off. By sending the message he prevented even more lives being lost.
Well yeah, he stopped Turkish invasion, but the Turks later set up a puppet regime in Wallachia. And he killed lots of people for no reason (not the Turks, but his peasant subjects)
My favorite story of Vlad the Impaler goes as such:
After a battle with the Turks, where Vlad tortured some Turkish prisoners, the Pope heard of Vlad's actions and his victory He asked Vlad to meet him in Rome to launch a Catholic-Orthodox attack on the Turks.
Vlad didn't go, and sent hundreds of noses of Turkish prisoners with a very insulting refusal to the pope.
Why exactly does Palestine want to remove Arabs and why does Israel want to remove Turks. And why does India want to remove Turks?
Who made this, a college graduate from Glasgow who just injected the last of the heroin he bought with his welfare check that he gets because no one wants to open a business in a place where they'll be taxed at 60% and will get broken into by addicts who make use of new things to use as weapons, making the government ban and regulate everything from knives to BB guns?
Basically, Scotland sucks and you're worse than Florida. Now go charge into battle so you can pick your slave master, essentially repeating those wars of Scottish Feudal Lords' independence.
fuck turkey and the ottomans, Vlad Tepes Dracula was a national hero. Not only did he defend Wallachia and Europe from the turks but he also got the crime and corruption rate to almost zero. Today, many of us Romanians praise Dracula as a national hero and we even have a big-ass statue of him in Bucharest.
Heroes are the doctors that worked day and night to find a cure to the thousands diseases that plague mankind with moderate compensation, heroes are the scientists that labored to improve the quality of life with little to no recognition, heroes are the teachers that try to educate your children in the face of an ever corrupting system, heroes are the few that stand to shout the downwards spiral these power hungry blobs are taking us to.
Fuck your Vlad, your Alexander the Great, your Napoleon, your Richard the Lionheart and all the other glorified murderers.
They are nothing but butchers, ready to sacrifice thousands, millions just to full their ego.
