Very careful statesmanship might mean permanent dominion on the Baltic shore, but there was not much margin Christina, for blundering.
Politicians almost invariably show blundering ineptitude when running the economy.
So great was the confidence in Franklin in this emergency that early in 1756 the governor of Pennsylvania placed him in charge of the north-western frontier of the province, with power to raise troops, issue commissions and erect blockhouses; and Franklin remained in the wilderness for over a month, superintending the building 1 The meeting between Franklin, the type of the shrewd, cool provincial, and Braddock, a blustering, blundering, drinking British soldier, is dramatically portrayed by Thackeray in the 9th chapter of The Virginians.
First-contact stories were popular for a time, with a theme of humanity blundering into contact with a species we are unable to understand being prevalent.
In 1812 and 1813 Kutuzov was openly accused of blundering.