Not that complicated if you have competent, level-headed, selfless leaders. But unfortunately we have a bunch of geriatrics with lead poisoned brains behaving like elementary school bullies.
Even competent, sane leaders can get it badly wrong.
lead poisoned brains
Their brains are poisoned by conservatism and corruption (yeah, I know, overlapping categories). The whole lead story is grotesquely exaggerated, mainly by the Freakonomics people, who make even Malcolm Gladwell seem credible.
Who’d have thought foreign policy would be so complicated?
Not that complicated if you have competent, level-headed, selfless leaders. But unfortunately we have a bunch of geriatrics with lead poisoned brains behaving like elementary school bullies.
Even competent, sane leaders can get it badly wrong.
Their brains are poisoned by conservatism and corruption (yeah, I know, overlapping categories). The whole lead story is grotesquely exaggerated, mainly by the Freakonomics people, who make even Malcolm Gladwell seem credible.
Who would have thought that hubris would result in ones undoing…
(stares at litterally every historical crash out in history)