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History calls - and says playtime is over

As a teenager, I had the unconventional view that we live in a very pleasant age. I didn't know that it was unconventional and I didn't know too much about the past apart from what I was taught in school, but that seemed like a no-brainer. According to those high-school history books, before the second...
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Is Putin a rational actor? - Part 2

The previous post left the topic off with the statement that Putin is a Russian imperialist with 19th-century values and priorities and a US-sized chip on the shoulder. He cares only about Russia's coercive power over other countries - which he equates with greatness -  and he thinks that everyone else does the same. He also believes that the West is out to destroy or at least subdue Russia....

Is Putin a rational actor?

This post engages in some armchair psychology speculations, so let's set something straight at the start. No one knows what goes on in another person's mind, and people often make ridiculously confident statements about what is going on in Putin's (or in other world leaders' whose mental states are...
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