Does it prove that Providence is looking after the good? Are we still deserving of its benevolence, if it were so? What must we do to maintain such a blessing? Or was it simply an accident of fate? Certainly for the millions who died in WWII, no amount of historic wrangling could erase their sacrifice.
Do evil leaders fail because to be evil is ultimately stupid? Now that we have mass media and weapons of mass destruction, does this rule still hold, if it did apply then?
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I think there's some evidence of that. With Hitler, he was so egomaniacal and unobjective about this own estimations that when his generals advised him against invading Russia in winter, he told them something to the effect of, "You worry about the tanks! I'll worry about the weather!" Then in Stalin's case, his paranoia led him to purge his best intelligence officers and dismiss accurate reports of the Nazis' plans to attack him, which he attributed to Allied infiltration of his intelligence network. The mental conditions evil creates in a warped mind can lead people so out of touch with reality that they foil their own schemes.