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@nik0p0l5 To be honest, was it any different in the past?

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@BohuslavskaKate This level of lying indicates growing troubles for Russians.

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@philosophymeme0 I have never seen national debt explained so clearly.

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@G_S_Bhogal It's not a theory, it's a normal swing of time between individualization (masculine) and collectivization (feminine) as we evolve more and more complex societies.

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@gummibear737 He is not

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@romanhelmetguy America: "Stop trading with China."

Europe: "You built China into what it is. We're just late to your party."

America: "The party's over."

You built your own devil. Don't blame us when he turned against you.

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@TheStalwart This is years view

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@visegrad24 Škoda moment

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@FeistyKittyPie As EU trash, what is a listserv?

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@avidseries And all of them all in the same drama triangle.

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@FeistyKittyPie Its a sign that you should watch more Bergman
https://t.co/ZqjtBlDLDJ

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@avidseries How long did you live in Iran?

[Alexandre Lefebvre @alex_usyd]

42 pages into my second reading and this 750-page monster may be the best book I’ve ever read.

Three pages an hour, working with Chat, because every paragraph layers political and psychological analysis in ways that are crazy erudite and genuinely creative.

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@romanhelmetguy Could also shitpost Czechia into Bohemia? Thanks

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@DoctorPerin @theralkia Come on Edward, Freud and Jung's relationship fell apart a long time ago. You don't need to act it out again and again.

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@Bbmorg Well yes, but UK has a huuuge free speech problem.

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@orikron It is not.

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Thucydides wrote from the position of a multipolar world of city-states without a clear hegemon - a fundamentally different structure than today.
The logic of "take what you can while you can" was rational in that world.

If the USA doesn't want to lose its position as hegemon, it should keep this tactic only for demonstrative shots in its own backyard.

In the current world, it's cheaper for the USA in the long term to maintain hegemony through norms and institutions rather than through pure force. The USA didn't build the UN, Bretton Woods, and NATO after WWII out of altruism, but because order reduces the costs of maintaining a dominant position.

So Thucydides is right for a bilateral strong-weak relationship. But at the systemic level, it's incomplete - a hegemon has an interest in creating a structure where at least some rules apply, even if it reserves the right to break them when necessary.

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@romanhelmetguy Nice tits

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@avidseries As an EU simp I actually mostly like Trump's foreign policy. I just don't like the theatrics around it.