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Newsletter Nr. 1.444
Amsterdam, November 11, 2025


Escaping Geopolitical Groupthink: Beyond West and Anti-West - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

In an age of information saturation, the most insidious form of bias is not ignorance but belonging. Geopolitical groupthink—the pressure to interpret world events through the lens of one's “side”—has replaced genuine inquiry with identity maintenance. For many, positions on war, power, and morality are no longer conclusions of thought, but badges of affiliation.

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How Positions Are Taken and Defended in Modern Wars, with John Mearsheimer as Case Study - Frank Visser / ChatGPT

In an age of live-streamed wars, social media outrage, and instant moral judgment, positions on armed conflict crystallize faster than ever. Yet beneath the noise, recurring patterns appear. Whether the war is in Ukraine or Gaza, whether one's sympathies lie with the West or against it, certain intellectual postures keep reappearing—and they tell us as much about the observers as about the wars themselves.

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