Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Quotes 142. Today the quote is by Sun Tzu "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. "
Yeah. I heard this quote many many times. I never really knew that it was from Sun Tzu before. I
remember it more like we'll get here later, like many Americans, I remember it from the movie, "The Godfather,' but anyway.
Let's continue with the note. Sun Tzu is famous for writing ' The Art of War. ' A lot of. Yeah I do hear a lot of
people talk about this book. Even though this book is very very old. It's thousands of
years old. Many people still make reference to it that he was a great
strategist. As far as you know, fighting wars and fighting. Fighting your enemy and
how you should try to fight your enemy. So let's continue.
He had many quotes about the importance of knowing your enemy. By knowing the
enemy you can know how to fight him or if you should fight at all. Yeah. I mean
sometimes if the enemy is just too powerful, maybe it's not a good idea to
directly fight him. Maybe you might have to take another strategy. Once you know
him and study him, you can create a strategy to defeat him. This is why he advises you to
keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
All right. Let's continue here. Just like I said. Many Americans may be more familiar
with this quote from The Godfather movies. You know , Michael Corleone played
by Al Pacino. Yeah so if you've ever seen any of the Godfather movies , you know Al
Pacino was the main character that went through all of the Godfather movies. And
of course he had this quote in one of them. Where he said, also had this quote.
And this is the quote. Yes. "There are many things my father taught me here in this
room. He taught me to keep your friends close but your enemies
closer. So obviously , probably the author of the Godfather I think Mario Puzo he
probably got this quote from Sun Tzu. Probably at sometime, but anyway, many
people remember it. I hear this quote repeated a lot it comes up in other
movies too. Okay. So let's continue. I also heard this quote used in regard
to Donald Trump when he first put his administration together
he chose a number of people who worked for big banks such as Goldman Sachs and
people some might consider minions of the globalists. Well minions. minions of
people who do other people's dirty work. And the globalists, if you're not familiar
with this term yet. These are especially a lot of rich bankers or rich elite. For
many, many , many years, they've they've had a plan that they would hope that one day we
had a one-world government. So they've been trying to lead us this way. And it's
gone through generations of families where they've been trying to lead this
this way and of course if they had a one-world government, they would be the
one controlling the one-world government so a little bit like world domination
actually. Let me continue. Many questioned if he was part of their group. Because
unfortunately you know people who studied more look it really doesn't
matter what party you belong to these globalists have had a lot of influence
on our past president whether they were Democrats or Republicans. Both, they've
had a lot of control and influence on. And a lot of people liked Donald Trump's
message and his message seemed to be anti-globalist. Against the globalist. Globalists
like to have you know , to unite everybody and to make all these trade deals by
uniting the countries all together, it's easier to control. It's easy to control
like seven or eight different groups than it is to control like almost 200 countries. So let me continue.
However now it seems that most of them have been replaced. So even though he
started with a lot of these guys. He has been getting rid of them, one, one by one.
one by one, one by one. There is not as many of them left anymore.
The globalists who have a great influence over the media still continue
to have an overabundance of negative press against Donald Trump. So this might
give you the impression that they still consider him to be an enemy of theirs.
Because otherwise, if they didn't, they would be saying a lot of great things
about him. You would hear praises about him all of the time. So this is why, sometimes I think
when I hear negative press about Trump, I'm actually kind of happy sometimes. Because I
think if he's really getting the negative press then maybe he is true in
what he says. Let's just hope so. But others have suggested that Trump was
simply using Sun Tzu's advice. Yes so when he was picking them some people were
saying well maybe he's just doing this. Because when you get them close you can watch
them closer. You see who they contact with and within the government there's a
lot of ways to listen to these people and there's a lot of ways to try to play
a trick with them, like you give them certain information. If this information
gets out to somebody else you know who who is the leaker. Who spilled it.Who
they're working with. What are their methods. So you keep them closer. The
closer you keep them, the more you keep an eye on them. The more you can kind
of guess their strategy. Of what they may do. So you could kind of counteract them.
That was the idea behind it. Okay and as we say here. Only time will tell.
All right well anyway. I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.