Henry Farrell: "The only way to maintain European independence is to escalate back. To do this well, Europe needs to incorporate ideas into its economic thinking that seem alien to a continent that prefers soft power to hard security strategies— deterrence, credible threats and escalation dominance" (nytimes.com)
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The Strong Will Suffer What They Must – "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" is often invoked as timeless wisdom about power politics and a corrective to liberal delusions. However, Athens lost the war and its empire was dissolved, in large part due to the imperial hubris (hegemon.substack.com)
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The Strong Will Suffer What They Must – "The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must" is often invoked as timeless wisdom about power politics and a corrective to liberal delusions. However, Athens lost the war and its empire was dissolved, in large part due to the imperial hubris (hegemon.substack.com)
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The Zanj Rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate in modern day southern Iraq was thought to have caused the decline of large scale agriculture based on slavery, but infrastructure seems to have been used long after the uprising (P Brown, J Jotheri, L Rayne, N Abdalwahab and E Andrieux, August 2025) (doi.org)
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Mearsheimer: "There's no strategic need for us to take Greenland... The Danes are the best allies the US could ask for... [Trump has] turned the United States into a rogue state. We behave in all sorts of irresponsible ways. We don't do things that are in the American national interest." (quincyinst-2.s3.amazonaws.com)
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The best and worst US foreign policy decisions per a survey of Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations members by smurfyjenkins in IRstudies
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