> I'm still scratching my head about what he thought his endgame was going to be after the coup. It isn't a contradiction for smart people to fuck up and do du

> I'm still scratching my head about what he thought his endgame was going to be after the coup. It isn't a contradiction for smart people to fuck up and do dumb things. Sometimes people just miscalculate and make mistakes. Through the use of power and connections, some people manage to fix their mistakes and synchophants start claiming it was "4D chess" all along. Really they just screw up like everyone else, but their resources often allow them to recover. When they screw up big enough, you're left with "how did they not see it coming" "paradoxical" situations like this.