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#128 – Chris Blattman on the five reasons wars happen

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I Think the Divide and Conquer Strategy Is Working for Russia and the West as a Whole

Russia's divide and conquer strategy with its neighbors has been working. The westw ess to fuel this war on those terms. We're fighting a proxy war hin crane. It's a nobler proxy war than most proxy wars. But every proxy war is, in some ways, the product of unchecked interest because there's some super power or some neighboring power fuelling one side of the conflict.

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