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During a recent interview over on the Dwarkesh Patel channel, Professor Sarah CM Paine (who teaches Geopolitics over at The US Naval War College) gave a brief mention of what she calls “Half-Court Tennis.” This is when you only pay attention to what’s happening on your own side of the net. For example, “Ball is heading to X, I too must move to X,” without paying attention to what your opponent on the other side of the net might be up to. She gives a good example from the early 1930s. The USA was then in the midst of a depression, so to protect jobs they implemented massive import tariffs. Suddenly Japan couldn’t export anything to the US, their biggest customer. Unable to produce all their own food themselves, and without being able to export, they found themselves no longer having the money to import food to feed themselves. Though Japan came out of WWI as one of the keenest internationalists, this move by the US put a quick end to all that. Next thing you know, the Japanese National

Apr 4, 2024 Are you playing half-court tennis? During a recent interview over on the Dwarkesh Patel channel, Professor Sarah CM Paine (who teaches Geopolitics over at The US Naval War College ) gave a brief mention of what she calls “Half-Court Tennis.” This is when you only pay attention to what’s happening on your own side of the net. For example, “Ball is heading to X, I too must move to X,” without paying attention to what your opponent on the other side of the net might be up to. She gives a good example from the early 1930s. The USA was then in the midst of a depression, so to protect jo

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