@AGHamilton29@cardinals150 This is a good example of how "sunk cost fallacy" isn't much of a fallacy for those running a war and why Putin's own self interest is to take a million casualties.
Its a very old problem and why we used to use separate out the decision to go to war from the conducting of a war
86 years ago today, a king destroyed his own legacy at 4 in the morning.
Belgium had held for 18 days. Their army was shattered, their cities burning, their coastline overrun by German armor.
King Leopold III was 38 years old. A widower since his wife died in a car crash he survived. A soldier-king who had refused to flee with his ministers.
At dawn on May 28, 1940, he did something his own government had explicitly forbidden.
He surrendered.
Alone. Without consulting his ministers. Without warning the British or the French armies still fighting on Belgian soil. Without a single word of thanks to the men dying to cover his retreat.
The Belgian government, in exile in France, immediately repudiated him and declared he had no constitutional right to do it.
French Prime Minister Paul Reynaud went on national radio that afternoon. His voice was almost a snarl.
"There has never been such a betrayal in history."
Churchill, who privately sympathized with the impossibility of Leopold's position, was pressured by Reynaud into denouncing him on the floor of the House of Commons:
"Without prior consultation, with the least possible notice, upon his own personal act, he sent a plenipotentiary to the German command and exposed our whole flank."
Leopold spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of the Nazis at his own palace.
When he tried to return home in 1950, Belgium had to hold a national referendum on whether to let him back. He won 57% of the vote. Then the strikes started. People died in the streets.
He abdicated within a year.
In Belgium, the argument is not actually over.
BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance says talks between the U.S. and Iran have ended after 21 hours without reaching an agreement. https://t.co/idhbnnAl3H
Instead of a live action Moana or Harry Potter show, they should do a shot for shot remake of the movie "Downsizing" every 8-15 years.
I'd cast Jesse Plemons as Peter Safranick, Keke Palmer as wife, Aqwafina as the love interest, and Stellan Skarsgard as Dr. Jørgen Asbjørnsen
@whignewtons Step 1 of the plan-"The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one Neil Gorsuch, and in such inferior Gorsuchs as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish."