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Don’t put all your eggs in one basket has long been a fundamental maxim of common political wisdom. Recent global and regional developments — all the ambiguity, ad hoc deals and the conflation of strategy and tactics — are showing us why.
Look, for example, at the behavior of the US, the strongest player on the international stage. It no longer speaks of deep, long-term strategic alliances but openly promotes “deals” that put out a crisis here or a dispute there, as the ideals and lofty principles of the previous era recede in the face of immediate, narrow self-interest.
Two factors have led to this state of affairs, in my opinion.
The first is the collapse of what, for a time, had seemed like a prototype for a world order that would succeed the post-Cold War order. The second is the accelerating pace of technological progress, which is currently culminating with artificial intelligence and its inevitable implications for humanity.
