Ninth note to the book recommendation

In one of his earlier books, Martyanov argued that Washington is a “weak and unstable polity” which then leads to a very dangerous situation for everyone, given that a weak and unstable polity is actually prone to war as opposed to discouraged from going to war. As Sun Tzu said, when strong, act coy. When weak, act belligerent. And as we see currently, a lot of the political behavior and political cognition in the White House demonstrates or suggests an inclination towards suicidal wars, despite the campaign promise of getting out of foreign entanglements and bringing peace.