Counter-Currents
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When you are an old general, you know you’re going to go anyway.
You lead for your people & for your men, whom you not only want to win, but to survive the battle & the war.
To do this you will be hated, ostracized, & sacked in the end, but you will have won the war & saved your men.
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Thank you.
My “comment” was ready before I saw rondda’s…isn’t it telling that the very same words came to me…Hvala ti.
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