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Tim Rourke's avatar

That's the way to conduct foreign policy.

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Tim Rourke's avatar

Yes. It will go on for a long time yet.

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LudwigF's avatar

Good article - thanks very much.

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Hussein Hopper's avatar

Best succinct summary of the situation and likely outcome in Ukraine I have read . To many experts of varying quality on substack stringing out the daily minutiae (he said, they said, I think blah blah) for clicks sake.

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Tim Rourke's avatar

Yes, I write when I have something to write about. There is a lot to write about these days. You describe perfectly the problem with most blogging. They are trying to make money, so they have to write something even when they have nothing new to say.

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Tom Welsh's avatar

"Wars can begin when you will, but will not end when you choose".

Unless you apply to Russia. It doesn't start wars; it finishes them.

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Jo Waller's avatar

Trump doesn't, of course, want the conflict to stop to focus on China. He wants the conflict with Russia to continue (and to focus on China) but for the EU and Uk to take it over. In this regard it's going extremely well and everyone is rearming with US weapons. Trump may be incompetent, but his handlers certainly aren't.

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TheRepublicIsDead's avatar

Trump has a hyuuge advantage that no president in my lifetime has had; the voter's that voted for him actually like him. He is our "guy". That gives him carte blanche to run over the Death Merchants, Big pharma, Big ag, democrats, RINOs, Eurocrats, put the Trump train in reverse and run them over again.

Unfortunately, he can't do the same to Nattyyahoo. Yet.

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TheRepublicIsDead's avatar

Trump could have started to end the SMO just by pulling our cash, logistics and ISR.

Pin the war firmly to Biden's foreign policy failure resumé and get us out.

Fuck chasing China, too.

China is not going to invade Taiwan, but if it does, why should we care?

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