Do you think Tywin is a good strategist? (Spoilers Published)
Tywin is obviously a horrendously evil person, and he is one of the worst people in the entire series. However there a lot of people now saying he was an unintelligent man, and I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. I personally feel the truth is in the middle between the "Tywin mastermind" and "Tywin idiot" theory. He's clearly shown to be rather intelligent and competent plenty of times, but also makes foolish decisions that doom his family and even some of his "brilliant decisions" are bad ideas in the long run.
Tywin sort of strikes me as the Henry Kissinger or Westeroes. A horrifically evil man who has way too many apologists, seen as a genius, that makes evil decisions that are seen as "pragmatic"yet often backfire in the longrun. Tywin's destroying of House Lannister's name and horrible parenting mean that once the fear and otherwise competence of Tywin is gone, the destruction of House Lannister is all but inevitable. And he often deliberately masks sadism and cruelty under the guise of "ruthless competence" see Tyrion and Tysha. But I think it would be a mistake to see that he is overall not an intelligent and competent man, just one with severe blind spots that lead to the downfall of everything he had worked for.