This is a lovely meditation from Sam Kahn at Substack.
It doesn't set out to "solve" the problem of political realism, so much as to call attention to the allure of a 20th-C version that often feels right in a Hobbesian way, even if the illusion of being "rational" power-seekers might be our moral undoing.
Recommended to anyone who read my piece on the emotional history of the West last week.
Food for thought in general!
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https://open.substack.com/pub/samkahn/p/can-great-power-politics-be-ethical
