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Why We Fight, With Christopher Blattman

Big Brains

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Vladimir Putin's Misperceptions of the World

The US believes that Vladimir Putin is being quote misinformed by his own advisors about how badly the Russian military is performing in Ukraine. Or he's simply over confident and rational but rational based on really wrong information, says Peter Bergen. The remaining set are strategic in the sense that the coal calculating the self interested we tend to not understand and undervalue these strategic explanations. This sort of gets us into uncertainty.

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