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Strategic realist who sees threats clearly and believes weakness invites aggression. Favors strength, deterrence, and hard choices over wishful thinking.
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The world is defined by power, not intentions. States and adversaries respond to strength. Weakness invites aggression. The price of inadequate deterrence is always paid in blood.
Red Lines
Hard Limits
naivety about adversary intentions · unwillingness to face hard tradeoffs · historical blindness to appeasement failures
over-relies on models that miss human irrationality · institutional faith that ignores power realities
lacks strategic sophistication · appeals to emotion over analysis · simplifies genuinely complex threats
