Tag: power politics
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Enriching Your Conqueror : The Cost of Confusing Ideology for Strategy
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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Power Is, Was, And Will Always Be the Rule
Every time a major power acts decisively, someone warns that “a dangerous precedent has been set.” That assumes history was ever governed by precedent rather than permission. It wasn’t. States have always done what they could get away with. What changes is only who notices.What feels destabilizing today is the recognition of a truth we…
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Life after door kicking. 