Category: Realpolitik
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Trump’s Ukrainian Tightrope
Victor Davis Hanson
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Robert Kaplan on Henry Kissinger
Robert Kaplan: Kissinger’s beliefs, which emerge through his writing, are certainly not for the faint-hearted. They are emotionally unsatisfying, yet analytically timeless. They include: Disorder is worse than injustice, since injustice merely means the world is imperfect, while disorder tempts anarchy and the Hobbesian nightmare of war and conflict, of all against all. It follows,…
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Political Action
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien The French saying is attributed to Voltaire. "The best is the enemy of the good." The idea is that one should not allow the pursuit of an unattainable perfection to impede progress toward an attainable goal which, while not perfect, is better than the outcome that is likely to…
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Three Senses of ‘Peace’
There is the divine peace that "surpasseth all understanding." (Philippians 4:7) It is the most difficult to achieve. There is peace among people who love, or at least tolerate, one another. It is moderately difficult to achieve. There is finally the peace most easily achieved, that based on deterrence and mutual fear. (Our enemies do…