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5 Oct 2022 Conversations with Tyler Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy
“In some ways, being a small, insecure country is very good for your political intelligence because when you feel you have an immense margin of error, then you don’t really care that much, but when you feel that your survival is on a knife edge, you think hard about what you’re doing, and you really ruthlessly weed out incompetent people from your national security structure.”
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- Walter Russell Mead
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- 5 Oct 2022
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Will the UAE prove equally stable? Well, Yogi Berra says that history is . . . what is it? Prediction is always dangerous, especially when it involves the future. I think the UAE, so far, has shown itself to be a very resilient state. In some ways, being a small, insecure country is very good for your political intelligence because when you feel you have an immense margin of error, then you don’t really care that much, but when you feel that your survival is on a knife edge, you think hard about what you’re doing, and you really ruthlessly weed out incompetent people from your national security structure. I think the UAE is worried when it looks at the world, and that gives them an edge. Elsewhere, will Pakistan remain as one geographically intact nation? Was it just stitched together, and eventually, it’s just going to fall apart?…
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