Blog Credo

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Downfall

 Strong "Hitler in the bunker" vibes here.

This is precisely why dictatorships lose wars with peer powers. The need for control leads the dictator into exercising more and more command of the decision making process, which he is inevitably poorly suited for.

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