What does International Relations teach us about Ukraine?

The world stands on a precipice right now. The question is whether Democracy will stand or whether it will fall. Russia is massing troops on the border with Ukraine, threatening a war (it’s the only reason a state ever does this military maneuver, let’s be honest) and now its NATO’s turn to act. There are …

Potential Supreme Court nominees

Biden has announced he will appoint an African American woman to SCOTUS. This will be the first time there are no liberal men on SCOTUS for at least 90 years and the first time there is gender parity among Associate Justices. Here are the nominees. She has to be under 55 to be a serious …

Ukraine Russia game theory

I was watching this video and they showed us this graph from game theory The answer the video said is that the US should do appeasement because of some multiplication, which isn’t how game theory works, so we will ignore that part of the video. You go down the tree. The highest score for the …

Will America defend NATO?

Following the end of the Second World War, relations between Josef Stalin and the rest of the world declined rapidly. Russia is by far the largest country in Europe today, and the Soviet Union was bigger still. Western Europe feared an invasion from Russia, and President Harry Truman understood that if we didn’t defend Western …