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What Problem Does a State Believe It's Solving? Israel, Survival, and the Logic of the State
What if part of the Israel – Iran conflict is not about oil, politics, or ideology — rather about how states behave once survival and continuity become the organizing principle? In this episode, I explore the logic of the state:
why nations organize around preserving themselves
why some conflicts become inflexible
why support for opposing regional forces may be interpreted as existential threat rather than political disagreement.
Using the American Indian analogy as a structural thought experiment, not a moral equivalence, we examine how states tend to think once continuity, territory…
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