Evidence I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th'other -- / [Enter Lady Macbeth] / How now? What news? (Act 1 Scene 7 ...

Macbeth, after all, was a man of rank and grasping ambition so unrelievedly self-centred and filled with his own false sense of greatness that he would stab his dearest friends to death ...

And what does Sun Tzu and Clausewitz advise? Know thy enemy. Macbeth had ambition that far exceeded his talent to realize them. He also became more and more paranoic. I don’t expect Trump to ...