Micro-Digressions: A Philosophy Podcast

Realism, idealism, and the War in Ukraine

Spencer Case

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Philippe Lemoine returns to Micro-Digressions to talk about the difference between realism and idealism in foreign policy thinking, and why he thinks excessive idealism led to the ongoing Russo-Ukraine war.

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