reading the evening standard today and they're opeds still saying stuff like 'china needs to be made to realize that NK w nukes is unsafe'
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its so frustrating foreign policy (at least in op eds) just feels like a shell game ppl just say stuff it doenst seem to make sense
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like how do you 'persuade' a foreign power to do something that its obviously already decided is just fine for it?
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lets send a team of our best oped writers to bejing and have them point out an unstable power having nukes is bad for world stability
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in fact im saying this about FP eds but i regularly see stuff like...'this will raise wages, but lower prices, which will hurt industry'
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im not (just) saying this to indicate more knowledge than the writers but they just seem like clown ppl just blurting out words
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like my (smart) friend the was like ';well if we get higher tech the economy will shrink bc unemployed ppl make less £'
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he's smarter than me but (presumably cuz wasnt actually his speciality) just didnt see how that made no sense as a totality
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but im pretty sure seeing things as this whole moving parts process is what defines i.relations n econ etc
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and op ed writers fucking suck at that imo they (by design) think of things in this natural historical sense, this happens, then this, this
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Economist mentor had this idea that most pppl with Political Views operate in a "super super partial equilibrium world" if that makes sense
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Replying to @eigenrobot
thats a really nice way of putting it, i'll say it to friend next time this come sup
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