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CW: Long thread/3
The standard account of the Cold War's "Long Peace" is that the #GameTheorists who invented #MutuallyAssuredDestruction set up a game where "the only way to win was not to play" (to quote the Matthew Broderick documentary *War Games*). The interdependency strategy of the post-Cold War, neoliberal, "flat" world was built on the same fundamentals: make war more costly than peace, victory worse than the status quo, and war would be over - if we wanted it.
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