> For some reason people on HN imagine that It's an easy simplifying heuristic to suppose that countries are all self-interested and nobody actually cares abou

> For some reason people on HN imagine that It's an easy simplifying heuristic to suppose that countries are all self-interested and nobody actually cares about "norms" or "war crimes" or "not filling low-orbit space with satellite fragments", because you get to forget about a lot of context and motivations and just put on your game theory hat and go, but like most simplifying heuristics that make things cleaner to think about, the conclusions this leads you to should be taken with a grain of salt