347 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Ukraine Crisis, The Enemy of My Enemy, National Conservatism"
The Fifth Column
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I Think the Word Humiliation Is Very Important in Russian Foreign Policy Decisions
I think we underestimate the role to which humiliating their neighbors factors into russian foreign policy decision making. I mean, i don't even think anyone's really talking about the fact that russia troops just intervened in cossacks, right? And then europe screwed up by not figuring out its own sense of non america, non cold war, non russia, security guarantees. Life would have looked differently if they'd done that. But they just didn't do that. It's a very emotional thingand, i mean, you to contrast it with a country like germany, right? Like germany lost n a war, ok? And how, you know, how
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