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Aaron Friedberg: The War in Ukraine and the Geopolitical Moment

Conversations with Bill Kristol

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Escalation in the Cold War

"Escalatory is not like a word that doesn't mean you can't do it or shouldn't do it," he says. "The notion that any escalatory step necessarily leads to the top of the escalation latter, in other words, thermonuclear apocalypse ... You can't ignore those dangers and you don't want to do things that increase the likelihood."

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