> playing chicken ... So many very serious people gravely explain that we must stand by and watch residential areas get shelled and rocketed to smithereens, cr

> playing chicken ... So many very serious people gravely explain that we must stand by and watch residential areas get shelled and rocketed to smithereens, creating a million refugees in the first week, as a democratic nation gets overrun by a mad dictator. Apparently we have to do this because otherwise the mad dictator will irradiate Europe and maybe North America too. But somehow the mad dictator won't split the atom if we only crater the mad dictator's economy and provide the weapons that kill his troops. > ... with a lunatic Do mad dictators have clearly demarcated red lines like that? Seems like a truly mad dictator would unleash doomsday if he's losing the war, regardless of which side of the red line we're on. It's well known that the secret to winning the game theoretical stalemate is to pretend you're irrational.