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Realpolitik means that we acknowledge that great power wars aren't an option while MAD exists - and that MAD isn't going anywhere for 100 years or more. That me
by Der_Einzige 6y ago
Realpolitik means that we acknowledge that great power wars aren't an option while MAD exists - and that MAD isn't going anywhere for 100 years or more. That means that soft/economic power is far more important than hard power.
Anti-ICBM tech sucks balls and it only gets worse with new weapons like nuclear cruise missiles.
- tehjoker 6y agoI don't understand why we are lusting for great power wars in the first place beyond the fact that they are so damaging as to be nearly (but not quite) unthinkable.