One of the points that Garland Nixon makes is that you need strategic empathy to be able to compromise with your opponents, and it is wholly in your own interest to be able to do so. He has discussed this in the context of the predicament the neocons face in Ukraine, with their catastrophic inability to see things how Russians see them. …
One of the points that Garland Nixon makes is that you need strategic empathy to be able to compromise with your opponents, and it is wholly in your own interest to be able to do so. He has discussed this in the context of the predicament the neocons face in Ukraine, with their catastrophic inability to see things how Russians see them. Ray McGovern has also spoken about how important it is to be able to understand what the other guy is thinking, and as an old Kremlin-watcher he knows whereof he speaks. This institutional narcissism is so destructive, and ultimately self-destructive, as we are seeing with Mark Rutte and his cohorts as well as other with European governments and the EU itself of course.
One of the points that Garland Nixon makes is that you need strategic empathy to be able to compromise with your opponents, and it is wholly in your own interest to be able to do so. He has discussed this in the context of the predicament the neocons face in Ukraine, with their catastrophic inability to see things how Russians see them. Ray McGovern has also spoken about how important it is to be able to understand what the other guy is thinking, and as an old Kremlin-watcher he knows whereof he speaks. This institutional narcissism is so destructive, and ultimately self-destructive, as we are seeing with Mark Rutte and his cohorts as well as other with European governments and the EU itself of course.