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How Corruption Destroys Armies

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2022.11.09

What a mess! It's hard to imagine that the leadership didn't know that it could be this way?

rand()m quote

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.

—Sigmund Freud