"An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes." -- Sun Tzu

[artemisia1]

Ancient Chinese strategist Sun Tzu (544-496 BCE) had it right. He knew Trump's type.

[artemisia1]

1. "A hasty temper which can be provoked by insults..."

a hasty temper, which can be provoked by insults; [Tu Mu tells us that Yao Hsing, when opposed in 357 A.D. by Huang Mei, Teng Ch’iang and others shut himself up behind his walls and refused to fight. Teng Ch’iang said: “Our adversary is of a choleric temper and easily provoked; let us make constant sallies and break down his walls, then he will grow angry and come out. Once we can bring his force to battle, it is doomed to be our prey.” This plan was acted upon, Yao Hsiang came out to fight, was lured as far as San-yuan by the enemy’s pretended flight, and finally attacked and slain.]”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

[Ol Janx Spirit]

2. After nearly a century of relative peace, we have lost the wisdom that comes from the constant...

...threat of conflict and war.

The ancient world was the continuous management of violence--both internal and external.

We are lucky not to live in that world at the moment, but there is wisdom that comes from it that we cannot currently fathom.

Ancients would likely not want to loose what we have built; while we seem poised to throw it all away.

[Jack Valentino]

3. "A man you can bait with a tweet is not a man we can trust with nuclear weapons".

~ Hillary Clinton, 2016

[Irish_Dem]

4. Trump will destroy everything to get what he wants. Wealth and power.

Just like Putin will destroy Ukraine and Russia to get what he wants.

[stage left]

5. My hope is

that he won't live to accomplish his evil goals.

[IronLionZion]

6. Germany and Japan didn't fare well after the war

I really hope it doesn't go that far here.

[artemisia1]

7. I can only imagine what General Grant, later President, would think about Trump -- and Grant's Admin had a

serious problem with corruption.

[fujiyamasan]

8. Another modern quote in game of thrones

“He would see this country burn if he could be King of the Ashes," spoken by Varys about Littlefinger (Petyr Baelish)

Of course, Littlefinger was a lot smarter than Trump, albeit just as crooked.

[artemisia1]

9. Good parallel. Probably inspired by Sun Tzu's quote. /nt