Besides being awful crisis-management communication, this is fascinating in terms of the conception it expresses of a compartmentalized world that is no longer interconnected in terms of cause and effect.
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And in a worst-case scenario it would shatter the nuclear taboo.
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But what makes it fascinating to me is how it goes against the grain of the defining communication medium and technology of our time: the internet and ICT revolution.
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Trying to retrofit strategic bifurcation on that vision is one of the abiding challenges facing the urge toward nationalist protectionism that Vance also incarnates.
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Vance is most identified with the latter, but his patrons are very much invested in the former.
This brings that tension to a head.
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I don't know... sounds like we Did business we don't want to draw attention to, atm.