Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, on Monday said he would back challengers to members of Congress who vote for President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill."
Hey any action is simplified greatly if you wait for it to partially resolve itself before your own involvement. Worked great for the Turks when the Romans killed each other the night before battle.
This is another point that can be used as an argument against Machiavelli’s philosophy. It was well-written, but I’m not sure a prince should trust the advice of a guy his family threw in prison. The Prince might be chock full of intentionally written bad advice for all we know. …such as always take a side to form allies, rather than Sun Tsu’s approach of allowing them to exhaust themselves without interfering.
That’s at least partially because of Italian philosophy as a whole, picking sides is great when you are the biggest monster on the field like say the Romans but once you aren’t? Well better to bunker down and focus on other things like say trade. Worked great for Denmark, Switzerland, and historically Scotland.
I fucking hate this dude with all my heart but if he actually does it then I’ll take a cautious “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” stance.
The enemy of my enemy who is also my enemy gets shot after one of them kills the other.
Ahh. The Sun Tsu approach to war.
Hey any action is simplified greatly if you wait for it to partially resolve itself before your own involvement. Worked great for the Turks when the Romans killed each other the night before battle.
This is another point that can be used as an argument against Machiavelli’s philosophy. It was well-written, but I’m not sure a prince should trust the advice of a guy his family threw in prison. The Prince might be chock full of intentionally written bad advice for all we know. …such as always take a side to form allies, rather than Sun Tsu’s approach of allowing them to exhaust themselves without interfering.
That’s at least partially because of Italian philosophy as a whole, picking sides is great when you are the biggest monster on the field like say the Romans but once you aren’t? Well better to bunker down and focus on other things like say trade. Worked great for Denmark, Switzerland, and historically Scotland.