Sun Tzu never said that, and your quote is based on your mistranslation of Chinese text, because you are deliberately removing context. Your deliberate misattribution of the quote is intended to add extra weight or gravitas to your own biased view of events and history (you're not a Pole, we all know that). The actual Chinese translates to "An evil enemy will burn their own kingdom down and rule over the ashes." but even that fails to take into account the nuance of hanzi. When taken in context, what it is really referring to is a critique of what we call a scorched earth policy; this is the tactics used by Stalin in WW2, and, admittedly, planned by NATO in case of a Communist invasion (in this case falling back and destroying fuel dumps). In Kursk, in 2025, the Russian army reversed this tactic, by using heavy artillery to destroy their own towns and settlements to support a counterattack, such as what happened at Guyevo, where the Russians basically levelled the place to take it back. Notably, because you are an apologist for Russian war crimes, whether you are a Russian or some other nationality, you refuse to apply your own flawed logic to this. The original Chinese test referred to grain. The "evil enemy" is in chaotic retreat and when overrun in their own kingdom will burn their own crops to ashes, in the hope of starving the victors to force them to return to their kingdom without treasures of war (grain), losing full claim as the vanquishers. This is a short term way to save face by forcing the enemy away. But in the longer term, a certain way to their own starvation while ruling over their kingdom’s ashes of their own making. The Chinese were not calling the "evil enemy" literally "evil". What they were referring to as "evil" is the short sighted bad tactic instead of a more considered good tactic in the first place. In modern parlance, good actions can have rare bad outcomes, but bad actions rarely have good outcomes. In Chess, it's the "spite check". So actually, because your limited understanding of the Book of Bullsh*t, you've picked the wrong fake quote. Your quote is merely saying that Zelensky's tactics are flawed, and that there is a better way to defeat Russia. Wrong quote to support whatever crackpot point you were trying to make.
