Sun Tzu and Niccolo Machiavelli

I believe that Sun Tzu is like Niccolo Machiavelli because they both have similar principles of ruling countries. One principle might be that they both want people to underestimate them in every way possible and make them believe that they are someone that they are not. One example could be when a really harsh ruler like Genghis Khan acts nice, but on the inside he is really harsh and gruesome on the inside. They both say to be very cautious of when to make your move, but when make your move do it with all of the force you've got. In other words, strike like thunder. They also both believed in trickery. For example,All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near. This is one of Sun Tzu's various quotes and here is one similar to that by Niccolo Machiavelli,He wanted to understand how political leaders could best obtain and maintain power. He thought that trickery was more effective in achieving these goals than honesty. He also thought that acquiring and maintaining power was more important to rulers than being a good leader.They both believed in trickery and that might have been the reason they were both successful. This is how Sun Tzu's principles are similar to the works of the great Niccolo Machiavelli. Adolf Hitler is like Niccolo Machiavelli in a way because both of them used trickery just like Sun Tzu. The way Adolf Hitler used trickery is to make the world think that he started WWll just to get his citizens to turn against the rest of the world and work with Hitler. If the citizens did not support Hitler's movement, the citizens were known as anti Nazis, then they were killed by the Gestapo, otherwise known as hitler's secret police. Even though most of the anti-nazis were incarcerated, some of them even died fighting against this cause. Adolf Hitler is also known as one of the most tricky and diabolical humans on this planet. In my opinion Hitler was extremely tricky and another reason why he was so very tricky is that he stated that the jews were responsible for Germany's domestic issues. After this everybody swore an oath to hitler to take out all of the jews. This was the very tricky plan that lead to the well known mass killing of the jews and various other types of people know as the holocaust. Adolf Hitler was persuasive because he focused on the germans as a group and not as individuals. Hitler believes in short slogans and being very one sided and this will make the germans retain the information he gives them. Hitler and Niccolo Machiavelli have very much in common such as their trickiness and their wanting of power. They both believe that power is root to every single thing out there. These two historical geniuses are extremely smart in their own ways. Another person like Niccolo Machiavelli would be from North America and his name is Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson was a patriotic man with the heart of an intelligent general. He defeated a british army that was more than twice the size of his militia. Over 2,000 of the british soldiers were defeated by an army of militiamen, indians, colored men, and pirates. All of these various types of people all joined together to defeat the british, which had the most powerful army at this time. The pirates and their captain, Jean Lafitte, had conquered and plundered many of the lands near the gulf of mexico and they gave them all the artillery they needed to defeat the british. Some of the artillery would have been cannons that fire tiny fragments of metal because they did not have any cannon balls. The tiny fragments of metal could take out waves of british soldiers at a time. It was much like a grenade of today's time because when a grenade explodes fragments of metal that are built into the grenade are broken apart and when they break off they act as bullets. This is why the cannons and grenades kill so many people at a time. Andrew Jackson was the leader of this militia much like how Niccolo describes a good leader in his book The Prince. He used strategy along with heavy weapons much like how you should be a fox to get out of traps and a lion to defend yourself from the wolves. This is Andrew Jackson in The Battle of New Orleans and how Jackson is similar to Niccolo Machiavelli. For my South American modern day Machiavelli I have Fidel Castro. Fidel Castro improved healthcare and education in Cuba during his dictatorship. He brutally beat and imprisoned anyone that appeared as a enemy to the regime. Both Niccolo Machiavelli and Fidel Castro were both ruthless and they wanted power and they would do anything to get what they wanted or in other words power. Fidel Castro was a communist revolutionist who governed Cubans as a prime minister from 1959-1976 and as a president from 1976-2008. Fidel Castro died in 2016. Both of these men wanted and they both got it. Fidel Castro wanted to fight oppression and in the end he had become the oppressor. After completing school Castro became the became apart of the People's Party. The party that he accompanied himself with was led by Eduardos Chipas. In the end his party lost the election and their leader shortly after that killed himself. Castro continued onward with his path and soon became the prime minister and the president. Castro started the revolution to take all of the power away from Fulgencio Batista, but he also failed at getting rid of Batista. This would not be the last time he attempted to get rid of Batista. Castro was sent to prison by Batista for a total of 15 whopping years. When Castro got out he went to mexico with his brother and Che Guevara to make a rebelion. Castro had finally scared Batista out of the country on his last attempt. Fidel Castro is much like Niccolo Machiavelli because to be a modern day machiavellian you had to act like Machiavelli himself and that is exactly what Fidel Castro did. A modern day African Machiavellian could be the Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni. He is a notorious Ugandan dictator that has killed many and he has a blood trail of Ugandans, Rwandans, People of the Congo, Central Africans, Sudans, Somalians, Tanzanians and Kenyans. Yoweri Museveni was a war criminal and he was never arrested for his crimes. He was praised by the western government as their colleague and he was even nominated for a nobel prize for pacifying Africa. The second thing that Yoweri Museveni did was steal money from the ugandan people and give it to South Sudan and Somalia. The culture that Yoweri Museveni has created relies on corruption to fuel his patronage network company for western leaders in Britain and the Americas. Museveni's corruption has corrupted almost all of his government and it's officials with it. His government should have failed by now, but for some reason it hasn't. His corruption has also corrupted has also corrupted his police. Yoweri Museveni is like Niccolo Machiavelli because they both are very sneaky and tricky and along with that they have too much power for their own good. Power can be good in some cases but in most cases it ends up very terrible for the person in charge that has the power. The person in charge, in this case it is Yoweri Museveni, has to much power that he could essentially do anything he including torture people and never get caught. According to my sources Yoweri Museveni is one of the most terrible leaders/dictators out there. This is how Yoweri Museveni is similar to Niccolo Machiavelli.

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