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Screw game theory, I have the bigger stick. This is how everyone goes "defect" and you enter an arms race. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma

Never mind, we already crossed that line: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzq2p0yk4o

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Almost no rebuttals on the internet are intellectually honest these days. Take the same exact action by a President of the alternative party, and it's considered "decisive", "shows our enemies we mean business". But since it's not coming from your political party, it's "oh no, what is this guy doing. He's going to get us all unalived."

> Never mind, we already crossed that line: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzq2p0yk4o

This was a very proportional response to Putin[1] the other day, so it's still technically game theory.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/world/china/putin-says-russia-tested...

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