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Don't like the guy, but I think he meant "weakness" as vulnerability, aka, if you want to attack the west, take advantage of them.
Empathy is good, taking advantage of the empathetic? Not so much.
The only administration I have seen extorting empathy recently is the Trump administration that used it against the democrats by taking away food stamps and wages to force the democrats to yield so Republicans could take affordable healthcare away from Americans.
And now we have idiots like the California governor protecting billionaires against being taxed. It's an ever worse one way street that only benefit the rich.
Yep. Elon Musk knows the playbook.
Yeah, this was my take. Those without empathy view it as a weakness, because nobody becomes a billionaire by helping others in need
Very good observation. Billionaires take advantage of it.