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patience weaponized — the art of winning by simply refusing to leave
means A military operation in which an army surrounds a city, fortress, or stronghold and cuts it off, waiting and pressing until the defenders surrender or fall.
from From Old French 'sege,' meaning a seat — itself from Latin 'sedere,' 'to sit.' The logic is wonderfully literal: to lay siege was to sit down outside someone's walls and stay there. The same root that gives us 'sedentary' and 'session' gives us the deadliest form of waiting — an army parking itself at your gate and refusing to budge.
- longest ever
- Candia lasted 21 years, longer than some marriages
- original meaning
- from Latin for sitting down stubbornly
- trojan trick
- ended a ten-year siege with one wooden horse
- starvation tactic
- hunger killed more besieged than any catapult
- leningrad horror
- 872 days, nearly a million dead waiting
siege of leningrad — nazi germany surrounded the city for 900 days (1941-1944), killing ~1 million people
siege of sarajevo — bosnian serb forces encircled the capital for 1,425 days (1992-1996) during the bosnian war
siege of troy — greek armies besieged the trojan city for 10 years according to homer's iliad