Show or Reality?: Hitting Moscow – Between Strategic Desperation and Balance by Force (Part II)

Instead of conclusion, an exercise in imagination: America plays poker, Russia plays chess, China plays go, and Europe simply plays the rules. The difference is not only in style, but also in time: poker is played in minutes, chess in hours, go in days. If we were to take a psycho-behavioural look at the players at the table, we could say that the poker player is most likely to get up suddenly, even flipping the table. But the game does not end there...