Beware allies who come bearing false hope: From Siraj ud-Daulah to Zelenskyy, they would have done better had they been guided by fear

JRR Tolkien wrote in his epic fantasy novel The Children of Hurin, “False hopes are more dangerous than fears.” And indeed, history is replete with examples of rulers having made strategic miscalculations based on false...

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