• Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    This begs the question: can effective diplomacy be conducted when one of the affected parties isn’t at the table? Is having one party absent better than having one party present but uncooperative?

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      1 year ago

      Is having one party absent better than having one party present but uncooperative?

      Yes. Because Russia will just derail the conversation if they’re present.

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      1 year ago

      This is a great book https://archive.org/details/opensocietyitsen0000popp, Karl Popper is the philosopher who described the paradox of intolerance. So applicable today, but unfortunately has been used so much it began to become a meme in itself and lost meaning… He also shred Plato’s republic as proto fascist doctrine, brilliant read/listen