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abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://theblower.au/@bobojp" class="u-url mention">@<span>bobojp</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bildung.social/@Linkshaender" class="u-url mention">@<span>Linkshaender</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.uno/@Pierrette" class="u-url mention">@<span>Pierrette</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://f.cz/@xChaos" class="u-url mention">@<span>xChaos</span></a></span> I would like you to have a look at 27 quotes from Hal Brands &amp; Charles Edel: The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order. You may use the tag <a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a> or a phpBB topic 1 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1874#p1874" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1874#p1874</span></a> . I would like you to read the short book too. It is a very good expression of an attitude I am trying to apply to the Union, to my civic engagement and to the cooperation with you, which is of great value to me.</p><p>29 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1903#p1903" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1903#p1903</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>Hal Brands &amp; Charles Edel: The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order. A short book stating elegantly and forcefuly obvious truths. Such preaching is needed, as we are overwhelmed by trivialities, sofistication and obfuscation. An US book for US audience. We, politicians and citizens of the European Union, should read it too. And take our part in the sacrifices to defend a good world order. With or without the United states. Quotes:</p><p>28 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1902#p1902" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1902#p1902</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>[...] a tragic sensibility grasps the imperative of both timely and enduring action. Greek tragedy alerted its viewers to the storm clouds gathering over the protagonists, as a way of reminding the spectators that their circumstances were never quite as secure as they might appear, and that averting disaster required acting to wrench events off their tragic course. At a time when the trajectory of global affairs often seems... MESSAGE CLIPPED</p><p>FULL TEXT: 27 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1901#p1901" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1901#p1901</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>What’s true for America is equally true for its broader coalition of like-minded states. In geopolitics as in many things, there is great strength in numbers. Yet that strength will hold only if the supporters of the international order lock arms and commit fully to its defense. Preventing great-power war and international aggression, promoting an open global economy that averts depression and privation, upholding democracy... MESSAGE CLIPPED</p><p>FULL TEXT: 26 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1900#p1900" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1900#p1900</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>Americans must understand that favorable military balances undergird all the security, prosperity, and liberal progress to which they have become accustomed, and that maintaining those balances in a more competitive era will inevitably come at a higher price. They must understand, then, that the United States will have to make difficult fiscal trade-offs in the coming decades to sustain its global project. They must understa... MESSAGE CLIPPED</p><p>FULL TEXT: 25 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1899#p1899" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1899#p1899</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>Preserving a free and open order cannot be done on the cheap, however, nor can it be undertaken as a solitary effort.</p><p>Hal Brands &amp; Charles Edel: The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order, Chapter Seven</p><p>24 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1898#p1898" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1898#p1898</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>The threats today are compelling and urgent, and there may someday come a time when the balance of power has shifted so markedly that the postwar international system cannot be sustained. Yet that moment of failure has not yet arrived, and so the goal of U.S. strategy should be not to hasten it by giving up prematurely, but to push it off as far into the future as possible. Rather than simply acquiescing in the decline of a... MESSAGE CLIPPED</p><p>FULL TEXT: 23 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1897#p1897" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1897#p1897</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>This is not to say that all is well. America’s competitors have closed the gap in some key areas; that narrowing margin is encouraging the geopolitical tests Washington confronts today. [...] But the primary limiting factors here are political and psychological rather than material. They relate to historical amnesia, and to a reluctance to make hard choices and face hard facts, rather than any catastrophic collapse of Americ... MESSAGE CLIPPED</p><p>FULL TEXT: 22 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1896#p1896" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1896#p1896</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>Given the instability and revisionism roiling the international environment, it is simply beyond America’s power—if it was ever possible in the first place—to create a truly global order in which liberal values are universal, geopolitical competition has ceased, and authoritarian rivals have been fully pacified and converted into “responsible stakeholders.” Yet the existing international order, incomplete and threatened as... MESSAGE CLIPPED</p><p>FULL TEXT: 21 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1895#p1895" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1895#p1895</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>It is impossible to predict precisely when the pressures on the existing order might become unbearable, or to know how close we are to that critical inflection point at which the dangers metastasize and the pace of decay dramatically accelerates. One can only speculate what the terminal crisis of the system will look like if and whe... MESSAGE CLIPPED</p><p>FULL TEXT: Hal Brands &amp; Charles Edel: The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order, Chapter Seven</p><p>20 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1894#p1894" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1894#p1894</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>As the Greeks surely would have realized, in fact, it is precisely when one succumbs to the illusion that tragedy is impossible that tragedy becomes all the more likely.</p><p>[...]</p><p>This leads to a second component of a tragic sensibility—an appreciation that tragedy is once again stalking global affairs.</p><p>Hal Brands &amp; Charles Edel: The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order, Chapter Seven</p><p>19 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1893#p1893" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1893#p1893</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>A tragic sensibility begins with the recognition that tragedy is normal—that international orders are often more fragile than even the sharpest contemporaries realize, and that their downfall tends to be more catastrophic than those observers anticipate.</p><p>Hal Brands &amp; Charles Edel: The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order, Chapter Seven</p><p>18 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1892#p1892" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1892#p1892</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>[...] a tragic sensibility is not the same thing as an acceptance of tragedy. By dealing squarely with the omnipresent possibility of great suffering, a tragic sensibility can better prepare one to brave an uncertain world. This duality of human existence—its potential for both towering achievement and terrifying descent into the abyss—was never absent in Athens. The best way to prevent a community’s accomplishments from cru... MESSAGE CLIPPED</p><p>FULL TEXT: 17 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1891#p1891" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1891#p1891</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>[...] the postwar era was one of the most impressive periods of peace, prosperity, and freedom in the history of the world. By cultivating a tragic sensibility, U.S. policymakers were able to achieve results that were precisely the opposite of tragic.</p><p>The irony of such achievements, however, is that they eventually undermine the tragic sensibility that produced them. They induce complacency by causing individuals to lose t... MESSAGE CLIPPED</p><p>FULL TEXT: 16 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1890#p1890" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1890#p1890</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>Yet [...] the overall results of America’s order-building project were stunning. The postwar world was not dominated by aggressive autocracies, however badly those regimes brutalized the populations under their control. Rather, the number of democracies in the world rose from perhaps a dozen at the darkest moments of World War II to around 120 by the end of the century, as respect for basic human rights became more widesprea... MESSAGE CLIPPED</p><p>FULL TEXT: 15 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1889#p1889" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1889#p1889</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>[...] there was no shortage of incidents in which the quest for order brought out the darker elements in American behavior.</p><p>Hal Brands &amp; Charles Edel: The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order, Chapter Four</p><p>14 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1888#p1888" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1888#p1888</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>The logic of these arrangements was thus essentially preventive. The United States would no longer be the world’s balancer of last resort, waiting until the system was crumbling to intervene. Now, it would act as balancer of first resort, taking the hard measures necessary to ensure that such a grave scenario never materialized. It would bear significant costs and risks more or less permanently, so that it would not have to... MESSAGE CLIPPED</p><p>FULL TEXT: 13 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1887#p1887" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1887#p1887</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>U.S. leaders also openly avowed their intention to uphold stability and prevent aggression [...] and over the succeeding decades they would employ initiatives from covert action to the overt use of force for these purposes. There would be no reliance on international moral opinion to maintain the peace [...] The United States was now committed to playing a security role no less hegemonic than its economic endeavors.</p><p>Hal Br... MESSAGE CLIPPED</p><p>FULL TEXT: 12 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1886#p1886" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1886#p1886</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>Yet [...] the U.S. commitment to that system never rested entirely on calculations of pure, near-term economic advantage, precisely because the American role so often seemed at odds with such calculations. Rather, the fundamental motivation was simply that American policymakers understood far too well what disasters—geopolitical as well as economic—could occur if the United States failed to foster a thriving international e... MESSAGE CLIPPED</p><p>FULL TEXT: 11 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1885#p1885" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1885#p1885</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>
abolitionniste 🇪🇺<p>Leaders of foreign countries were well aware of this fact, and they often complained about the “exorbitant privilege” that America extracted from its economic dominance. More striking in retrospect, however, are the costs and burdens that Washington bore by dint of its leadership role.</p><p>Hal Brands &amp; Charles Edel: The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order, Chapter Four</p><p>10 <a href="https://trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php?p=1884#p1884" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">trojkatretiho.cz/viewtopic.php</span><span class="invisible">?p=1884#p1884</span></a></p><p><a href="https://bagarrosphere.fr/tags/tg211496239" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tg211496239</span></a></p>