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Unlike most countries, Israel thrives amid chaos.

JL;DR SUMMARY Ira Slomowitz's essay reflects on the ideas of Nassim Taleb's book "Antifragile," discussing how Israel personifies antifragility amidst chaos and adversity. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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IdfResilienceMilitary StrategyGeopoliticsU.S. Military AidNassim TalebAntifragileU.S. DependenceOptionality

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Israel
"Unlike most countries, Israel thrives amid chaos."
United States
"Taleb called Israel a fragile country due to its dependence on the United States, and said that top-down peace agreements, like that between Israel and Egypt, or the Abraham Accords, are doomed to fail."
Egypt
"and said that top-down peace agreements, like that between Israel and Egypt, or the Abraham Accords, are doomed to fail."
Germany
"One of former Chancellor of Germany Konrad Adenauers great fears in developing West Germanys defense policy was that, when push came to shove, there would be no U.S. nuclear umbrella."
France
"He was not convinced that the U.S. would risk its own cities in defense of Europe in general and West Germany in particular. That is why he supported Frances independent nuclear deterrent and why he and former President of France Charles de Gaulle were so close."
United Kingdom
"The UK too, when deciding on its Trident nuclear submarines, had the same doubts."
Finland
"Newly NATO-ized Finland is probably closer to Israel in its combination of fragility and antifragility."
Taiwan
"Taiwan, too, is fragile in this sense and so are the weaker Indo-Pacific nations like the Philippines and Singapore."
Philippines
"Taiwan, too, is fragile in this sense and so are the weaker Indo-Pacific nations like the Philippines and Singapore."
Singapore
"Taiwan, too, is fragile in this sense and so are the weaker Indo-Pacific nations like the Philippines and Singapore."
Latvia
"That is as true for Israel as it is for Latvia, Finland, Australia, and Japan."
Australia
"That is as true for Israel as it is for Latvia, Finland, Australia, and Japan."
Japan
"That is as true for Israel as it is for Latvia, Finland, Australia, and Japan."
India
"India could be a country that could help diplomatically, since they are large and powerful enough to ignore much of the pressure from the Arab and Western-Woke world."
Jordan
"The one peace agreement most fragile and more worrisome though is the one with Jordan."

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