It’s improbable that two ex-governors — one known for head-scratching aphorisms, the other for silly one-liners—are now global voices of reason.
It’s also logical, in a perverse way. As the world goes mad and sets itself on fire, where better to turn for wisdom than crazy, combustible California?
Schwarzenegger’s most recent statement was a short video urging President Putin to stop the war in Ukraine. But the former governor also rejected the increasingly commonplace American condemnation of all things Russian. Instead, speaking in English with Russian subtitles, he drew from his own history of making friends and movies in Russia to express his affection for the country and its people.
In a remarkable essay published this month in The New York Review of Books, Brown challenged calls in the U.S, for greater confrontation with China. Brown pointed to books by “think tank specialists and defense department insiders,” like The Strategy of Denial by Elbridge Colby, for promoting even more conflict that increases the chances of a catastrophic China-U.S. war. These include more military competition and “selective nuclear proliferation” to friendly countries.
Brown argued instead for vigorous engagement with China that focuses on avoiding catastrophes. He calls this strategy “planetary realism … an informed realism that faces up to the unprecedented global dangers caused by carbon emissions, nuclear weapons, viruses, and new disruptive technologies, all of which cannot be addressed by one country alone.”
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