We've seen it before, and we'll see it again.

A paranoid leader surrounded by flatterers. A bunker mentality replacing national strategy. Cabinet members and media lackeys tiptoeing around a narcissist’s mood swings, pretending to govern while the country burns.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why/

Why Hitler Slept Through D-Day

On the morning of June 6th, 1944, Hitler was sound asleep. The Allies were landing. Tens of thousands of soldiers were pouring onto the beaches. The tide was turning, the war accelerating toward its violent, inevitable end. And the man leading the Reich was in bed, untouched. His generals knew

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Did Nero really play the fiddle while Rome burned?

The Roman emperor Nero is said to have played his fiddle while the city burned and his people suffered. Could he really be that cruel, or is it all just a story?

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@appassionato @Daojoan the engraving in this article is of a painting made by Siemieradski (German transliteration) btw:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Siemiradski_Fackeln.jpg