Francis Fukuyama: Can Putin's war rescue liberalism?
UnHerd with Freddie Sayers
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Are We Predisposed to Prefer War to Peace?
Do you think that we might have taken it too far, and we might actually be bad for the west in the long term? I'm not ready to say it was a mistake at this point. One of the deeper themes in your work, that stretches right back to the end of history and earlier, is that there are motivations within the human condition which oftentimes works at cross purposes. Do you now think we are predisposed to prefer war to peace in some way? Oh, not under all circumstances. But there is something that drives us in that direction.
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