Russia, Putin, and the Psychology of Status (Robert Wright & Steven Ward)
Robert Wright's Nonzero
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Is Putin's Speech a Realist?
Pudent's speech got, i mean, clearly, i first saw you. He wants a soviet level of status and im the ah, so his speech, you know, was just, even a russians com ed on how emotional he was,. as if he was taking it personally. That's very consistent with your model. And not so much with the model of a a realist, or at least a realist would have trouble accommodating everything about that speech, i i think, including the tone. A realist might might say one of two. One would be that it doesn't matter, because talk is cheap, so why are we paying attention to what people
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