And he doesn’t even know how to apply that properly. If you’re going to be a bully and use hard power, you have to exercise said hard power against anyone who argues.
He doesn’t have the heart to be a dictator. The guy likes the admiration too much and is scared of that going away, so he chickens out when a real dictator needs to get tough. By doing that he’s showing weakness to the real dictators, the equivalent of having a “kick me” sign stuck to his back.
All he knows is how to act like a mafioso. I think he fundamentally doesn’t understand what an alliance actually is.
He fundamentally doesn’t understand a lot of geopolitical and basic human norms unfortunately.
Except for “might makes right” apparently… 😑
And he doesn’t even know how to apply that properly. If you’re going to be a bully and use hard power, you have to exercise said hard power against anyone who argues.
Weak-mindedness and hard power don’t really work together.
He doesn’t have the heart to be a dictator. The guy likes the admiration too much and is scared of that going away, so he chickens out when a real dictator needs to get tough. By doing that he’s showing weakness to the real dictators, the equivalent of having a “kick me” sign stuck to his back.
“He” has a lot of people in the room making decisions.
He doesn’t understand what a mafioso does, either. He saw a couple gangster movies but didn’t understand the subtext.
He’s not a mafioso. He’s a schoolyard bully. He’s never outgrown that mentality because he’s never had to.