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Hans morgentau he wrote in the 1940s that uh about this warning a caution if you will that if if uh we see the world as being countries with national interest we create peace 00:25:51 through uh come Mutual um Mutual understanding and compromise but he warned about uh the dangerous morality as it could fuel this Crusader missions in which if it's good versus evil peace 00:26:04 is not created through mutual understanding you don't understand the evil instead you defeat it so peace is created when good defeats evil as uh compromising with evil is effectively 00:26:15 appeasement
Realpolitik eplained by Hans Morgenthau, a major 20th-century political scientist who studied international relations.
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- Jan 2025
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for their you know imperialist nature
Kennan in 1998 predicted today's rehearsed accusations against Russia's reaction to USA's hegemonic intentions.
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that peace time allian can be quite destructive it's it can be a useful tool during War
Prof. Glenn Diesen on the counter-intuitiveness of peace-time alliances like NATO.
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- Sep 2020
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loss of Silesia
Conquered from Maria Theresa during the War of Austrian Succession in violation of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713, to which Frederick was a signatory.
In many ways, this is seen as an example of Realpolitik, in which a nation's strategic strength is the determining factor in how it conducts policy (rather than promises or a sense of honour). This is a concept that will become increasingly important in Prussian policy into the 19th century, under Bismarck.
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