Putin restarted the Cold War around 2007. But Western politicians bent over backwards to pretend it was not happening. To acknowledge the reality of the situation would have required politicians to reevaluate their policy priorities and spend more on national security. Politicians in a democracy always have an incentive to prioritize dom…
Putin restarted the Cold War around 2007. But Western politicians bent over backwards to pretend it was not happening. To acknowledge the reality of the situation would have required politicians to reevaluate their policy priorities and spend more on national security. Politicians in a democracy always have an incentive to prioritize domestic spending in an attempt to buy votes, so they will always lie to themselves and their voters in order to downplay foreign threats. Eventually, people will die, and then they will have to stop pretending.
Putin restarted the Cold War around 2007. But Western politicians bent over backwards to pretend it was not happening. To acknowledge the reality of the situation would have required politicians to reevaluate their policy priorities and spend more on national security. Politicians in a democracy always have an incentive to prioritize domestic spending in an attempt to buy votes, so they will always lie to themselves and their voters in order to downplay foreign threats. Eventually, people will die, and then they will have to stop pretending.