Rob Lamb
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6,505 appearances
29 recordings
4 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2d ago
Rob Lamb’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He also points out.
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That madman theory may simply not work against major powers, because while it might make a threat more credible, that doesn't necessarily make the threat more effective and make the adversary willing to cave to those demands.
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So he points out that this is perhaps why Nixon's use of madman theory didn't work against the Soviets.
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Like, okay, it made Nixon's threat more credible, but did it actually make it
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More effective?
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Did he actually get what he wanted to out of these uh these uh these bluffs, these threats?
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And then you have the domestic side of things, with the hypothetical leader's own citizens not loving the heightened stakes.
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Because, you know, obviously, uh I mean, I say obviously, but this is one of those things that we often have to be reminded of in a case of mutually assured destruction, or even a case of asymmetric exchange in
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involving nuclear weapons or some other kind of just you know horrible weapon of mass destruction.
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A leader is always bargaining with the lives of their own citizens.
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You are the chips on the board in a no one knows what I'll do wager.
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And the author also notes that, okay, you know, this is going to also differ depending on how much of a voice the people have in a given nation versus how much power the uh the ruler has.
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Uh, then there's gonna be less backlash in places where the people have less of a voice and the ruler has more absolute power.
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That's right.
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Yeah.
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In in the in contemplating potential nuclear exchanges, everything is a bit more stark and a mi bit more black and white.
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But obviously, you know, any any give you can think of any number of scenarios where the stakes are are still quite high for the individual.
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Yeah, and and again coming back to um to to what we mentioned earlier, the idea too that uh by const if you swing around this uh s the sword of madman theory too much, then it makes it more difficult to engage in the the the other highly important uh uh tools of statecraft, uh peace treaties and agreements and so forth.
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Um so it's like you c you can only swing that sword around for so long and then you be you you have to be able
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To engage in these other uh acts as well.
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