The greatest mistake Donald Trump made was to have plunged into war without reading the book ‘The Art of War’ by the renowned Chinese military thinker Sun Tzu. Sun Tzu writes in it “ If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles.” “If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.” “If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” One does not know whether Donald Trump knows himself or not. But it is evident he never cared to know about Iranians. One simply cannot vanquish people who are not afraid to die. Donald Trump has bitten off more than he can chew as is obvious in his utterances to withdraw from the conflict. He has also asked his erstwhile NATO allies that he won’t be able to help them any longer and that they should go take oil from the Strait of Hormuz ; if that is not an admission of defeat then I don’t know what is.
