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Why not? I've found this advice to be harmful. Lots of extreme malice happens under the cover of incompetence.

I would argue because incompetence is statistically more likely.

Not from hostile state actors.

We're talking about a country that has spent the past fifteen years rearming, has interfered in elections and referendums, has held nearby countries hostage over energy supplies, has been involved in ransomware and hack attacks, has imprisoned political opposition leaders, is currently massing an army on its borders, and is run by a short insecure and vain man with mafia connections who likes to posture topless in staged PR photos.

It's really quite surreal to dismiss all of that as "incompetence."

Half of that applies just as much to the US, even more half of that applied to it not too long ago.

Which makes all this reheated cold war rhetoric really surreal to most third parties.

Are we talking about the US? They have not murdered a million Arabs in the last 2 decades, so we can say that in their favor.

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Yet malice is statistically more profitable, and pretending to be incompetent is statistically more easy that taking the blame for malice.

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