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Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake
Dwarkesh Patel
Dwarkesh Patel interviews Sarah Paine, a Naval War College historian, about continental versus maritime powers and how that explains decisions by Xi and Putin. They also cover a possible Taiwan war, the fall of the British Empire, WW2 strategy and how to study history.
HN commenters use it as a source for Paine's continental-versus-maritime framework and her views on sanctions when discussing geopolitics.
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