Somewhere last weekend a few dozen former Cabinet members, senior military officers, academics and think tank analysts met to evaluate the world military
It's a historical weakness of the whole ideology. It's baked in. "Our enemies are both powerful and weak" turns out that's a bad mindset if you want to know... anything about your opponents.
This kind of stuff is absolutely surreal to watch, these people are living in an alternate reality.
Fascists can't accurately assess their own strengths and weaknesses or those of their enemies.
It's a historical weakness of the whole ideology. It's baked in. "Our enemies are both powerful and weak" turns out that's a bad mindset if you want to know... anything about your opponents.