In my early retirement, I've decided to read at least an hour a night in real paper books. So far, I've read:
- my dad's old college English book (always felt I needed to improve my grammar) - Candide by Voltaire - Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche - The Politics by Aristotle
Now I'm reading The Prince by Machiavelli, and really enjoying it. One tip: before invading, look for minorities who will help you because they resent the traditional rulers in their own country. They may in fact invite you in to help them overthrow their own country. This makes me think that the Chinese have read The Prince and are using BLM, gays, and militant feminism as allies in their fight against America.
Lots of Russians absolutely loathed communism, so when Germany first invaded Russia, those Russians thought they were being saved from communism, and there were mass surrenders to the Germans. But then as the Russian prisoners were simply killed by the Germans via deliberate starvation and the civilian population enslaved and worked to death, they figured out that the Nazis were actually worse than the communists, so Russian nationalists made common cause with the communists for the duration of the war. About three million Russian prisoners of war were deliberately starved to death in camps. The camp commanders forbid the surrounding populations from giving the prisoners food.
Hitler also forbade his commanders for ordering mandatory vaccination of Russians, because he wanted the Russians to die of diseases. Silly Hitler! He could have conveniently killed them with injections just like Bill Gates has been doing to the world with the mRNA.
- my dad's old college English book (always felt I needed to improve my grammar)
- Candide by Voltaire
- Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche
- The Politics by Aristotle
Now I'm reading The Prince by Machiavelli, and really enjoying it. One tip: before invading, look for minorities who will help you because they resent the traditional rulers in their own country. They may in fact invite you in to help them overthrow their own country. This makes me think that the Chinese have read The Prince and are using BLM, gays, and militant feminism as allies in their fight against America.