Thread by @ThyConsigliori

John Minford, #SunTzu 2:19 "Treat prisoners of war kindly, and care for them. Use victory over the enemy to enhance your own strength."

Let's start at the end, "to enhance your own strength." Literally, the word "strength" means forces. Remember we're dealing in a world where soldiers are conscripted first, severely disciplined for any infraction of orders, killed for desertion, and often sacrificed foolishly.

So, when you treat your prisoners of war kindly, you're commencing the recruitment process. Far better to capture a prisoner, treat him kindly, and recruit him, than to kill him. An enemy soldier killed weakens your enemy. An enemy soldier recruited does so a second time.

Master Sun is driving home the same logic, yet again. One bushel of the enemy's wheat is worth twenty of ours, right? One of the enemy's soldiers whom we convert to our side is worth twenty of our own. #MAGAites, can you say #WalkAway? Can you say Reagan Democrats?

Let's go back to Master Sun's real world. He had to have looked around and seen the constant idiocy of waste. War, for him, was clearly about respect. Yes, respect of resources. But also, respect of persons, of individuals, of soldiers.

And he clearly knew better than to believe that every enemy soldier was a bad person. So here you are, you can kill an enemy, or capture him. You can treat him horribly, or kindly. You can waste a life, or save a life. Master Sun is letting us, know, stop wasting lives.

Strength. We'll have to come back to that. Use Victory to enhance strength. Oh my. This is my ultimate attack against me, and against us in our movement. We had NO IDEA how to use victory, not for anything. Let's attack me about this first.

During the campaign, we were working night and day with not one thing other than winning on 8 November, and I confess, I had never spent one moment of thought on what to do if we won. Winning was everything. Ha, I can promise, I'll never make that mistake again!

With 2016 being my first campaign, I've been told by many others that presidential transitions are almost always terrible things. There's no way to know how to build a government when you've never done so before. But ours, 2017, was the worst ever, and by far. Terrible.

We obviously did NOT know how to use victory to enhance our strength. If I could go back and change just one thing, it would be to read this verse, this chapter of #SunTzu with a focus on this verse. Well, one other thing, too.

We'll come back to kindness. With what I know now, taken back in my trusty time machine, I'd have gotten angry, and declared a second war. Our victory meant that we were on the war against The Swamp. They knew it, but we were slow, slow, so slow to realize what that meant.

As time and that moment of victory recede, please remember this. Our victory was against the forces of power in this world. We commenced fighting the #SecondAmericanRevolution. We thought in terms of elections. Ha! That's NOTHING compared to the real fight.

And on that note, please consider purchasing @KateScopelliti's and my book. We lay out the terms of the new war clearly. It took us a year and a half to both recover from the initial fight and envision the current one.

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From the MSM to the ongoing Deep State evil actors, the war FOLLOWING our victory has been vastly more difficult than victory itself was. The exhilarating night of the election, I could in NO WAY have pictured that. Master Sun laughs at me a lot, you understand.

With my time machine's help, and realizing that our 2016 victory meant starting the real war, kindness to prisoners of war would have been my new dedication. No, there's not one DC person I refer to. Nope. It is all the Democrats throughout our nation who've been misled.

#MAGA victory means converting Democrats. No, it does NOT mean making them Republicans, while that will occur for many. Rather, it means converting them to MAGA. Just to be clear, our victory would have saved America if it weren't for traitors in the Republican power structure.

Want proof? Look up McCain's thumbs down vote against repeal and replace of Obamacare. Can you say perfidy? How about perfidious? We fight NOT against Democrats in our country. We fight against the power structure in DC. We must be...kind to our Democrat brothers and sisters.

"Treat prisoners of war kindly, and care for them." I promise you, every single American Democrat who did not vote for Trump, and who does not approve of him, feels EXACTLY like a prisoner of war today. They feel that Trump has stolen their nation. And...they're right. He has.

They don't realize that their nation was about to die. If we hadn't won, America herself was doomed. But, try to understand, that it was their America that was dying. In saving the America we love, we're killing the America they love. They are our prisoners of war.

And we must treat them kindly. We must recruit them into our army. Sure, bitter partisan bickering and their phenomenal self-destruct by way of socialism may lead to our victory again in 2020. Maybe. But, it will NOT lead to the healing of America, herself.

Perhaps #MAGAVictory2020 is the most important tactical mandate. If so, please remember it's an Earthly mandate. If we wish to follow also the will of Heaven, then we must win the #WarForAmerica ultimately. Can you picture the year 2025? If we're not winning then, we've lost.

Between now and #Victory2025, we must treat our prisoners of war kindly, and learn how to use victory to enhance our strength.

Go figure. Master Sun has all the answers we need today.

To return to previous sections in our #WarForAmerica2020 and #SunTzuForMAGA series, don't forget to head over to @WarForAmerica21.

And also, be sure to purchase John Minford's translation, here:

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