Free Advice for Putin: ‘Make Peace,
You Fool’
Posted By: PageTurner, 4/14/2022 10:59:15 AM
As Vladimir Putin embarks on his Plan B — a massive military operation to try to grab at least a small bite of eastern Ukraine to justify his misbegotten war — I thought: Who could give him the best advice right now? I settled on one of America’s premier teachers of grand strategy, John Arquilla, who recently retired as a distinguished professor of defense analysis at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. When I called Arquilla and asked him what he’d tell Putin today, he didn’t hesitate: “I would say, ‘Make peace, you fool.’” This is also known as the first rule of holes: When you’re in one, stop digging.
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Well, yeah. A stopped clock is right twice a day. The person quoted by Friedman (this isn't his own thinking, you know that) is very interesting.