Mutual awareness of vulnerability between Israel and Iran creates mutually assured destruction (MAD)-like deterrence that changes the strategic game theory: both sides realize escalation is in neither party's interest, making further escalation toward direct warfare unlikely despite regional tensions.
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“this sort of mutually assured destruction now changes I think the game a little bit... if we are right then we would fade risk of escalation because we would assume that um both sides would realize that it's in neither side's interest to directly escalate”
Created: 8/10/2026, 4:34:54 PM
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