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The Importance of Strategic Thinking
Kennan: I don't think things are guaranteed or anything like that. The long tell around the ex-artic order we were supposed to call it, this idea of the sort of sources of Soviet conduct is pretty consistent. Putin clearly does not see the sharp distinctions between Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union as pure theoreticians would. How much stock do you put in strategic thinking? Is there a formula for how to think about this?