Brinkmanship today starts with 'crazy at the top' rather than a notional 'rogue field commander'. Apocalypse as Schelling point of loonies.
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Sure the most unreasonable win. But when all want to use unreason as a strategic posture, you get apocalypse of the commons, not 'tragedy'
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Trump & Co aren't smart enough to be doing this alone. Important to understand what is really at work (I don't yet).
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I see guided revanchism in the appts - e.g., a blast from the past like Sessions - such that stupidity doesn't explain it.

