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Tag: geopolitics

  • Enriching Your Conqueror : The Cost of Confusing Ideology for Strategy

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    If Russia is the existential threat European leaders claim it is, then their behavior makes no sense. For over a decade they’ve warned of Russian aggression while funding it through energy dependence, under investing in their own defense, and redirecting moral outrage toward the one alliance that actually deters Moscow. This isn’t about ideology or…

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  • On Wishing Power To the Persians

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    I’m not a foreign policy expert, and I don’t pretend to have answers here. I’m very aware that situations like this are complex, and that well-intentioned ideas can have unintended consequences. What follows isn’t a proposal so much as a set of thoughts I’m still turning over.Watching what’s happening in Iran has been unsettling. From…

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