[Steely Tom]

There must be countless incredibly tragic stories behind this situation. I wonder how many will be told over the next fifty years or so.

The boy king who thinks life is a video game has done incredible damage and created an unbelievable level of heartache and long-term damage to his own kingdom and subjects because he thought they were a video game too.

[Paladin2]

Yeah, and that’s just the story of Hussein....

[jmacusa]

And now it's “Hey, you, Rotten American Imperialist Dogs, come and fix what we screwed up and we'll be nice’’.

[Calvin Locke]

The Soviets had a similar massive disaster with their space program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe

The story behind the story is that the Nedelin was vainfully confidant enough to watch the test close up, maybe as a way to sort out those not “with the program”, but as such, all the suck-ups as well as the ones afraid of Nedelin more than the hurriedly built rocket, joined Nedelin up close and personal.