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Destroying Ukraine with Idealism

Why Ukraine should not have the "right" to join NATO

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Glenn Diesen
Jul 02, 2024
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Political realism is commonly and mistakenly portrayed as immoral because the principal focus is on the inescapable security competition and it thus rejects idealist efforts to transcend power politics. Because states cannot break with security competition, morality for the realist entails acting in accordance with the balance of power logic as the foun…

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