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250. Will Sanctions Work? War in Ukraine.

The Michael Shermer Show

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The Outlawry of War Has Not Eliminated War

The number of wars since 19 28 has almost halved. What happened? The moralization bias was in full flowering, but there was also lack of enforcement. Outcasters refuse to do something with the rule breakers. This principle of exclusion doesn't always work, cuba and north karea come to mind. But sometimes it does, turkey and aran perhaps. And it is almost always better than war.

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