Dr. Bret Devereaux

They are clay and putty in his hands and he doesn't in his, in his arrogance, he increasingly doesn't see them as people, but as things, as pieces, he's moving around on the board.

And so he is wholly unprepared for situations where they don't move the way he expects.

Staggering, staggering strategic incompetence.

They're right there, man.

They're right there.

He has spent a decade needling them while he's making his army, slowly annoying his neighbor.

And then when he goes to war, he doesn't even have scouts in their general direction.

So convinced is he that his voice and his charisma will hold them in thrall.

He doesn't even have some kind of thin screening force.

He is entirely unprepared for them to move.

Just staggering strategic incompetence.

It's great.

But perfectly in keeping because he doesn't view nature as powerful in that way.

And so it never occurs to him that they're powerful.

He again, he sees them as a resource and maybe an obstacle.

But it doesn't he isn't prepared for anyone else to make a decision, which is it's wonderful to see sort of his decision making flaw and his moral character flaw.

They're the same flaw.

coming together.

Absolutely.

Yeah.