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Re:NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircr... by jmnicolas on Friday November 20, 2020 @02:42AM (#25158157)
Geopolitics matter even for simple people like me: first it's always better to not live in the matrix of lies of someone else and secondly it can help understand what's happening or what is going to happen.
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Re:NSA Spied on Denmark as It Chose Its Future Fighter Aircr... by eternalban on Sunday November 22, 2020 @07:17AM (#25176864)
> it can help understand what's happening or what is going to happen.

This is hopelessly naive, imho. The information asymmetry is off the charts, and a rational "analyst/reader" (the role you want to play) of geopolitics should be aware of this fact, and its implications. You simply have no idea what is really going on. You don't have the data and it is naive to assume what is printed in a handful of outlets by an equally limited number of promoted authors are the "geopolitical facts".

So, yes geopolitics certainly "matter" but that was not the point.

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