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Norks' New Strategy?
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I think the takeaway here is that human beings are not, by nature, rational actors. Nations are made up of human beings.
Interestingly enough, I actually find myself quite aligned with Schelling, who explained in an interview once his thoughts:
"I claim that we couldn’t do without rational choice. But we don’t expect rational choice from a child or an Alzheimer’s patient or someone suffering from shock. We will better understand the uses and limits of rational choice if we better understand those exceptions. I use the example of the magnetic compass. It’s usually a wonderful way to determine which direction north is. But if you are anywhere near the actual north magnetic pole, the compass could point in any direction, even south. The same is true with rational choice. It is a wonderful tool if used when appropriate, but it may not work all the time. So I consider myself in the rational-choice school, absolutely. But I am more interested in the exceptions than many other economists tend to be."
I still hate all of you equally regardless of your views if that still means anything here
People can be highly irrational, but also very rational within different worldviews which can lead to completely different conclusions being drawn. For example, when the Space Shuttle was first proposed and its supposed high launch cadence was announced, many in the U.S. recognized this was likely nonsense, as due to various technical reasons, such a high launch cadence would likely not be possible. So NASA was clearly stretching the truth, mostly for funding to get the project developed. On the other side of the world, the Soviets also recognized that NASA was stretching things. And the "rational" reason was obvious: this craft wasn't really for space research at all, but was rather a military spacecraft intended to do things like snatch Soviet satellites out of orbit.
It means you’re rational…so there!
Does that mean Schelling would like or hate @CommodoreMid? Just playing catch up here, tough to parse the IR theory with all the slap fighting.
Schelling would need to read about @CommodoreMid to understand @CommodoreMid . I’m not sure he’s done that.
Headlines I didn't think I would read two short years ago, but here we are: A New Concern on the Ukrainian Battlefield: North Korea’s Latest Missiles
Norks don’t have a lot of nations out there willing to buy their stuff. Russia might not have loads of money (sanctions) but they do have lots of oil. It is interesting that the tree great global pariahs have formed a trade partnership that used to need the old Soviet Union to make it work.
You would be surprised, it is more than you think. As for what Russia can provide, North Korea desperately wants more modern arms and technology.
I don’t think so. If you mean to include terrorists or nationalist organization in the list of “nations” you might be right, but there are 195 nations in the world and at least 180 buy and sell weapons in a well defined market that NK is not part of. That said, I’m not sure where the Holy See or Tuvalu get their arms.