Ep 54: Jonathan Kirshner on Realism
School of War
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The Importance of Recognizing Different Actors and Their Preferences
Kennan was a little comfortable authoritarianism and I think he he missed the true horrors of the Nazi menace because of that but his instincts were similar to cars. He said something like Czechoslovakia is a central European nation and its destiny must lie in that fact and so even if you think that's true it did not well apply to this case. A simple adjudication of a disequilibrium on the balance of power by minor adjustments on the continent would not solve the problem now interestingly Morke and Aron saw this clearly as they put great stock in the meaning of this very distinct actor car did not.
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