Heterodox
The Saker is pessimistic. Delusional imbeciles giving orders and dishonorable cowards mindlessly executing them. That is the setup we are dealing with.... All my education has always been based on a crucial central assumption: the other guy is rational. That is a huge assumption to make, but one which was fundamentally true during the Cold War. Today I find myself inclined to think that psychologists are probably better suited to make predictions about the actions of the rulers of...
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