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The Stakes: Trajectory of Tyranny

The American Mind

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Is There a Failure of Imagination?

Much of this is a total failure of historical knowledge and imagination. The declared go political or strategic goals, namely not having ucrane an nato are entirely unexceptional. For weeks we were told that pewton was going to nvade, and it didn't seem like it was going to happen. My point is that that shows the kind of failure of imagination on the part of western policy makers. It's just incompetence bungling unintended consequences and so on.

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