Current discussions of “punishing” Russia for interference in the 2016 presidential election, or “sanctioning” Russia for destabilizing eastern Ukraine, or “countering” Russian military deployments by stationing additional U.S. and NATO troops in the Baltics, fail to ask an elementary question from strategy 101: and then what? What will Russia do in response? And at the end of the sequence of actions and reactions, will Americans be safer than before? Bismarck warned against playing chess one move at a time.
The National Interest
America and Russia: Back to Basics
Graham T. Allison, former director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and the author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
America and Russia: Back to Basics
Graham T. Allison, former director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and the author of Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?
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However demonic, however destructive, however devious, however deserving of being strangled Russia is, the brute fact is that we cannot kill this bastard without committing suicide.
Graham Allison
August 14, 2017
I'm not sure what Russia did wrong?
I'm not sure what Russia did wrong?
This is another paradox of liberalism. Liberals assume (believe) that they are the sole holders and protectors of Truth, and that anyone that opposes them is evil and must be tamed or destroyed.
This is quite the opposite of liberalism, one purpose of which was to escape from theocracy based on dogmatic theology and the other was the to escape from the traditional feudal state. Liberalism viewed both as tyrannical, but in trying to impose liberalism, liberalism itself becomes tyrannical.
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