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“Kissinger's project not as a sign of weakness but as an act of profound statecraft. He was seeking to protect the nation without sacrificing the values that make it worth defending. He understood that a nation that blindly trusts its defense to a "black box" has already surrendered a core principle: the belief that human wisdom and moral accountability are paramount. Kissinger’s effort to maintain strategic stability is the necessary precondition for Elshtain’s concern for the nation’s soul to even be possible. A nation annihilated in an AI-driven war cannot practice civic virtue.”
— from AI's Political Realist Defense of Democracy as of 3 August 2025