By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026As the geopolitics wonks say, "they were playing an iterated game," where some losses had to be tolerated so that the losers could try to win the next time around. 24/ 11153
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026But there are plenty of people who weren't (and aren't) playing iterated games - people who are even more unhinged, more reckless, more short-termist than the maniacs who filled the world with nuclear weapons. 25/ 11275
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/09/2026These people don't necessarily care if civilization or even the human race persists if they can't get their way. The thought of *them* running around with "weapons of mass destruction" ratcheted up the half-century of stark nuclear terror that had preceded the USSR's collapse to new heights. 26/ 213717
