Samuel Charap
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We just need to keep that in mind.
Finland has a long history of managing this, at least in the pre-2022 era.
But since then, their relations with Russia have been almost completely cut off and to the point of border crossings being closed.
And I think in the post-war context, we're going to have, as an alliance, have to think about how to manage what is now a much longer border between NATO and Russia to avoid miscalculation and misunderstandings.
I think that there's this sort of Hitler analogy that does distort a lot of our views of nasty autocracies, right?
Most autocracies historically have not thought the kind of...
world domination that Nazi Germany did.
But I think that that, you know, and particularly the sort of Munich analogy of any agreement just being a sort of pause before the inevitable aggression and, you know, seeing that as more about the nature of the attempt to find agreement than about the nature of the
the adversary in question, in this case, you know, Nazi Germany and its plans for continental and global domination, I think that does distort things.
So, but more broadly, your question relates to one of reputation, right?
And I do think that what we know from political science studies of this is that essentially, you know,
States look to other states' behavior in the particular case, not from somewhere else across the world.
So just to be quite concrete, from what we know about how reputation has functioned in the past, China's view of whether the US would respond to an attempt to take Taiwan is likely to be more shaped by US activities in Asia and the Asia-Pacific
than it is by the U.S.
response to Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Now, that's not an argument for not responding to Russian aggression in Ukraine.
I do think that we need to attach costs to norm violation, that if we take the norm of territorial integrity seriously, if we take the norm of non-aggression seriously, we need to impose costs to states that violate it.
I think that's a sort of clear-cut case.
But since the advent of nuclear weapons, I think we – and given that Russia has more than any other country, there's not going to be an outcome in confronting Russia that looks like Nazi Germany's capitulation.
And ultimately, we found ways of having stability, particularly in Europe, with even the Soviet Union.
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