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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 3 Podcast 159 The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism Rule # 16, Strengthen the Weak. Weaken the Strong
Description: The Road to Power, Machiavellian Pragmatism, Rule # 16: Strengthen the Weak; Weaken the StrongAs with all other Machiavellian rules, none consider morality, right and wrong, just and unjust, good and evil, fair and unfair, or moral and immoral. They are all dominated by the central rule that the ends justify the means. Rule # 16 says, Defend the weak and weaken the powerful but keep all foreigners under subjugation. In Machiavelli’s own words“Again, the prince who holds a country differing in the above respects ought to make himself the head and defen...