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If my history of ideas serves me right, political realism was developed by imperialists to justify imperialism. In that sense the doctrine serves its purpose

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I can agree with that conclusion. I'd only claim my votum separatum when it comes to 'fakeness'. I would still call it fake because it is so much detached from reality that relationship with true, existing facts is at least casual or very, very basic.

The FT asked for my b'day so I'm not able to register & read this gift. Also, please post here much more frequently and please 🛑 posting on Xitter. We all should stay off the Musk platform - he is killing Ukrainians. Also, if you post here more often it will help to make this platform less silly 🙏

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A “realism” that always lands on Moscow’s side isn’t realism. A real realist would look at Russia’s losses, its burning refineries and its strained budget, and push harder. Instead Washington is waiving sanctions. That’s not realism. It’s preference.

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Hmm… not much of a “giftarticle” - looks quite paywalled.

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Realism is surrender with footnotes. Moscow supplies the talking points, the think tanks supply the Latin, and Ukraine gets told to be "pragmatic" about its own amputation.

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Personally I consider 'realism' as a manifest of intentional ignorance and intellectual laziness. "Big countries matter, smaller ones should submit" so people should not care about internal situation of big players and should not even learn about all those 'small' countries.

It is worse. Appeasement was born from trauma of the 1st WW. 'Realism' is basically return to imperialism with complicated justification, which actually means: 'big countries are right, others have to submit'. Except it NEVER worked and 'small' countries do not submit, and often bring big ones down

You give Trump credit for “thinking”? In his state of dementia I doubt he is capable of rational thought.

Trump isn't as tall as he wants people to believe but look at this sawed off little runt next to him. Makes me wonder if some of his issues are ego. Being a short shite. I've met some that will F things up in heartbeat JUST because of "short man's disease".

Marxism was a class-based model with the motto, “Workers of the world unite!” Today’s motto should be “Models of the world unite!!” Can a society made up entirely of models really function?

This statement, though, very well could encapsulate #trumpRussia motivations: "big powers seek to dominate their regions — in Putin’s case, the former Soviet world; for America, the western hemisphere. Internal politics are irrelevant."

Quite right. Any paradigm of world politics that excludes domestic politics and the complicating “reality” of the interactions and intersections of global and domestic forces and structures is bound to fail. Good riddance!

Also for the lazy ones. After all 'realists' claim smaller countries do not matter, even if the 'small' ones are like Ukraine - the biggest country wholly in Europe. If 'small ones' do not matter there is no need to learn about them. It is worse than child's perception of grand strategy.

Realism caused two world wars.

Putin wants to ruin NATO, so Trump wants to ruin NATO. Putin wants to take over Ukraine & attacked it, then Trump blames Ukraine & supports Russia. Putin is a war criminal with a warrant out for his arrest. Trump invites him to the US & is trying to get him back into G8 & G20 meetings. Traitor.

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