
216 | Ian Morris: How Russia's Grand Strategy Drives the War in Ukraine
The Realignment
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The Problem With Escaladescension
War is just politics by otheir means. There are alternate methods for accomplishing your political goal. You don't need to invade poland to make it western. But if esclaod escalate, that doesn't accomplish the political goal in any way. I think klauswiz would have had a hissefix if hed had about escalati. It's very easy to get really cerebral about thinking about nuclear war. And i think things ar if russians do decide to use a nuclear weapon, then i think this will go really, really bad and quickly. So i'm optimistic, e long term, about ukraine,. Because it seems to me that because they did
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