What's the Right Policy?

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i feel sorry for people that work in the field of foreign affairs, and what's the right policy? Bcause i don't know. Over the last 200 years, i think tat was ada point indye, that was adam smith's point into bunking the mercantilis theory of economics. And anyway, that's a different converse. I i really don't know what the right is. It's not clear ventor works. Sometimes you win, but in that case, which was microscopic by comparison. There's also been other places where intervention has various case has been variousstates, as has worked.

In this conversation with the renowned Ohio State University political scientist John Mueller, author of The Stupidity of War, Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War, and The Remnants of War, we discuss the ongoing crisis in Ukraine and what we might expect from Putin’s Russia in the coming weeks, months, and years, along with Dr. Mueller’s outline for how to end the current conflict and compromise with Putin. That seems unlikely at this point, but the prospects of the tragedy of millions of war refugees pouring out of Ukraine into neighboring nations, along with the number killed already and likely to be killed as the fighting escalates, why not give negotiation and compromise a chance? Read John Mueller’s op-ed that accompanies this episode.