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The Russia-Ukraine negotiation terrain
Hawks oversimplify, while appeasers are totally wrong
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Curt Monash
November 2022
Paradoxes that are essential to understanding Russia/Ukraine
Why Ukraine hawks are more correct than one otherwise might think
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Curt Monash
October 2022
The United States granted Putin a lifeline
They should yank it back ASAP
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Curt Monash
“Putin” does not equal “Russia”
Putin controls less military decision-making than one might assume
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Curt Monash
August 2022
The US counters Russia’s annexation gambit
Speak softly and convey a big "Drop dead"
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Curt Monash
The theory and practice of bullhorn bargaining
Notes on noisy negotiations
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Curt Monash
The urgent nuclear obstacle to Ukrainian victory
Secretary Blinken can speak it out of existence
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Curt Monash
June 2022
What game theorists knew 40 years ago that is often forgotten today
Negotiations and other games are commonly intertwined
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Curt Monash
There's one way to counter Putin's strategy
Give Ukraine the best conventional weapons, and do so at maximum speed
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Curt Monash
Sanctions strategy and sanctions theater
The good, the bad, and the silly
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Curt Monash
Most Russian nuclear threats are nonsense
But one of the real ones has underappreciated consequences
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Curt Monash
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One strand of US-Russia negotiations has culminated
Joe Biden dictated terms about acceptable US aid to Ukraine
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Curt Monash
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