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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
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News Eye
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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 Economists headline read/: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
ALT
10:45 AM · Apr 1, 2026
@newseye.bsky.social
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 Economists 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
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Jilly_in_VA
(14,371 posts)1. Is that quote from Sun Tzu or Robert Heinlein?
It could be either.
EYESORE 9001
(29,732 posts)3. Also attributed to Napoleon
I like to credit Barack Obama, I.e., please proceed, Governor.
displacedvermoter
(4,501 posts)2. George Carlin?
GenThePerservering
(3,379 posts)4. Similar was quoted as being said by
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
Comments on Blue Sky about that photo I've ever read. I thought for a minute I was on Xitter.