Yep. "I'm asking you to estimate this unknowable thing, pressure you to give me a small answer, and if you get it wrong, you're 'weak'". This is tinpot-tyrant

Yep. "I'm asking you to estimate this unknowable thing, pressure you to give me a small answer, and if you get it wrong, you're 'weak'". This is tinpot-tyrant stuff. I saw that in a movie: "no, the German people have failed _me_, they were weak, and deserve to suffer for it".