“In asymmetric political warfare [you are here], the weaker party wins by not losing. Its greatest strength is its ability to endure. The goal is to wear down the stronger party and use its own inefficiencies and weaknesses against it. The weaker party chooses the ground to fight on and avoids being drawn into a fixed battle. That means avoiding armed conflict unless the conditions for victory are ensured. This is the same strategy our enemies effectively used against us in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.”
Remember the old Russian proverb: “Three men sit down to talk about revolution. Two are police informants, and the third is a fool.””
Sand in the gears. Every chance you get. Passive-aggressive resistance. And smile and laugh at them lots.
Sand in the gears. Every chance you get. Passive-aggressive resistance. And smile and laugh at them lots.
That appears to be the bottom line of this article.
For instance, if 30% of postal workers went to work every day along with the rest, but dragged their feet in such a way that management recrimination would be difficult, the postal system would collapse.
Truck drivers doing the same, UPS workers joining in and all done in a low key way that avoids looking like a plan. Things just happen to make a bad day.
I suspect this is what the writer is suggesting.
And it misses the point to say that the Biden administration will not collapse. It will because of the economic consequences.
There is no way the country can support the economic penalties.