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The Tragedy of Foreign-Policy Realism

by Ambolia on 6/9/23, 2:38 PM with 1 comments

• by hindsightbias on 6/9/23, 4:45 PM

  > The Soviet Bloc fell apart not because it was destroyed by overwhelming forces from outside, but because, by the end, nobody inside it believed in it or wanted to fight for it anymore.

  Always the ideoligical simpletons. I suppose a united front by the West for four decades had absolutely nothing to do with it. Better we listen to old Mearsh and blame ourselves as no one on the other side ever has any agency.