Samuel Charap
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first heard Mar 2026
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terror.
And it's a psychological, it's the idea of affecting adversary psychology so that they are afraid of undertaking aggression.
And I think, you know, there are ways that we can effectively convince, continue to convince Russia that the consequences of attacking an ally would just outweigh any possible benefits and therefore that they would be deterred from it.
Exactly.
Yeah, I mean, the same problem existed in the Cold War.
I'm not sure why this is necessarily, you know, so novel.
I mean, there was always the question of would we trade Boston for Berlin?
So I think that there is something that I – I mean he makes an important point about the pervasive fear of communism essentially in the Cold War as being something that drove people to consider making unpalatable –
decisions for that reason.
So, you know, it's not completely off base, but, you know, the the the, you know, and obviously this there's a lot of political will questions here and accounting for different U.S.
presidents and their different proclivities, which is sort of in a way contingent.
So, you know, it's right to raise the question.
And if I were living in Estonia, like, I would be concerned that the U.S.
public is not as taken with the Russian threat as they are.
But I do think the U.S.
still keeps skin in the game.
It has, you know, 80,000 forces stationed in Europe.
It has nuclear weapons reportedly stationed in Europe.
And it maintains...
You know, including forces that are conventional forces, but nonetheless in the Baltic states themselves.
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