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#273 – Chris Blattman: War and Violence
Lex Fridman Podcast
We Shall Never Surrender. That's Why It's Powerful
There's no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. In some sense, just war is saying that in spite of the costs, our opponent has refused to compromise on something we find essential. The Ukrainian politicians didn't concede to these cruel Russian demands because even if they had it would have been political suicide. They were in some sense channeling the values of the broader population. I think this links us back to what we were talking about earlier about just war.
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