I read him as saying his empire was so powerful he didn’t need to care about existing reality or to plan ahead; he could make it up as he went and still expected to succeed no matter what, so he didn’t need to judiciously study the existing reality before overwriting it.
I read him as saying his empire was so powerful he didn’t need to care about existing reality or to plan ahead; he could make it up as he went and still expected to succeed no matter what, so he didn’t need to judiciously study the existing reality before overwriting it.