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> When you're in front of a bully... I think it is a mistake to anthropomorphize nation states this way. Explaining international relations in terms of persona
by runarberg 6y ago
> When you're in front of a bully...
I think it is a mistake to anthropomorphize nation states this way. Explaining international relations in terms of personal relations is misleading at best. A bully does not control a nuclear arsenal, nation states do.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoGiven that Russia continues to behave as a bully (Georgia and Ukraine, at a minimum), I see exactly nothing wrong with calling them a bully.
- runarberg 6y agoThat is fine, but problems arise when you start talking policy in an anthropomorphized context. Sure Russia is behaving like a bully, but that doesn’t mean the UK and other NATO members should call it’s parents and have Russia suspended from school.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoObviously. But when people call Russia a bully, I rather doubt that they're anthropomorphizing them to that degree. And calling them a bully gives a convenient shorthand for both describing their behavior and stating that it's problematic.