I think the USA was irrational for launching and continuing 20 years of doomed wars in the Middle East.https://twitter.com/DAlperovitch/status/1500868124136165380 …
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Do we think political elites are always rational & do what's in their best interest? Norman Angell argued with great acuity in 1909 in The Great Illusion that a large war in Europe would be a disaster for all parties. European elites then proceeded to do what he warned against
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Quibble: Irrational =/= Flawed Assumptions
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Both are “rational “ from the perspective of internal conversations. Bush needed to be more militaristic / more money to contractors to maintain control and power within his party. Putin needed to act on Ukraine to maintain the NazBol faction in the Kremlin’s support.
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That’s a little facile, but the “common wisdo “ on Ukrainian desire to really be Russian and uninterested in statehood was an internal conversation that couldn’t be argued against without risking loss of support.
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I think it can be unwise to dismiss him as purely irrational. I think he was just working from bad information. He had already been conducted several illegal invasions/annexations, and didn't have any reason to expect this would be different.
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> Putin's decision to invade Ukraine was irrational & will destroy his stated policy goals of restoring Greater Russia. This is only true if the west "Wins" and is able to prevent that somehow, by arming locals who are able to ultimately win.
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No, even without that Putin has lost.
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The (absence of) global climate change and energy policies are probably the greatest example of irrational policy.
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The entire Trump “Presidency” was irrational.
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