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mahatmakanejeeves

(69,850 posts)
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 11:55 AM 5 hrs ago

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Reposted by Kevin M. Kruse
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The new front cover of The Economist.

The front cover shows President Xi in focus smiling at Trump who is in the foreground out of focus ranting. The Economist’s headline read/: “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
ALT
10:45 AM · Apr 1, 2026

The new front cover of The Economist.

News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) 2026-04-01T14:45:48.453Z
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"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves 5 hrs ago OP
Is that quote from Sun Tzu or Robert Heinlein? Jilly_in_VA 4 hrs ago #1
Also attributed to Napoleon EYESORE 9001 4 hrs ago #3
George Carlin? displacedvermoter 4 hrs ago #2
Similar was quoted as being said by GenThePerservering 4 hrs ago #4
Also, there are some of the dumbest GenThePerservering 4 hrs ago #5

EYESORE 9001

(29,732 posts)
3. Also attributed to Napoleon
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:24 PM
4 hrs ago

I like to credit Barack Obama, I.e., ‘please proceed, Governor’.

GenThePerservering

(3,379 posts)
4. Similar was quoted as being said by
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:33 PM
4 hrs ago

Napoleon during Austerlitz (1805), in a memoir written shortly after his death (Arcibald Alison I think).

It's been misquoted a bunch of times.

GenThePerservering

(3,379 posts)
5. Also, there are some of the dumbest
Wed Apr 1, 2026, 12:35 PM
4 hrs ago

Comments on Blue Sky about that photo I've ever read. I thought for a minute I was on Xitter.

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