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Or, we could be in the right places at once. We withdrew from Afghanistan because it was unsupportable. The US is a naval power. Lacking strong alliances and a coastline we could not sustain our support for the Afghan government. The Pakistanis are the closest ally of China. They f'd us over too many times during the GWOT. Central Asian countries are under Putin's thumb. Ukraine and Taiwan are much surer places to build the bulwarks of democracy. But go ahead and keep chirping.

I was listening to a co-worker describe how his liaison partner (a senior member of the security services of an Eastern European country) was describing the US Embassy as something the guy would look at during the Soviet era with a lot of pain in his heart. He'd see the American flag flying above that embassy and he knew that the US was at least a place where you could dispute the bosses when they were wrong, where you wouldn't be shot for failure or be taken away in the middle of the night. I gather that this guy got the very flag that was flying over that embassy as a token of appreciation in a ceremony when he retired.

Ignore

I'm not seeing much value to these arguments. I'm for human rights. I can only fight for those in so many places at once.

yeah, this...unfortunately Being a grown up sucks sometimes.

She was asking for it

But think of all the money they will have raised.

In this scenario are we bringing snow with us to Columbus?

She wants to create a structure to raise money and stay relevant. Hope she gets the cold shoulder but there is no end to what some of these people will pay to support.

Remember Billy Carter was a political strap-hanger. It didnt' make Jimmy Carter a bad person.

This should hurt his other businesses. He must be identified as a wrecker of our economy.

That cad

The Putin caucus in congress appears to have their knives out for NATO.

Looks like we have something like a Karla

huh… Did we finally get Karla?

Yeah…

Gonna be an interesting period when the lunatics are running the asylum. Hoyer and Pelosi both stepping down is epoch shifting.

Michael Tracey is about a whore for Putin as it gets online.

Paid Putin apologist says....

Remember Omarosa carrying water for Trump? She proclaimed that people would have to bow down to Trump. How did that work out for her? Kari Lake comes from a very similar opportunistic paper-thin recency of support for the RW extremism.

To the charge that UN, NATO and EU support for Ukraine is "imperialist" against the territorial acquisition of its territory by the dictator Putin i'd say: uh what?

Another good outcome https://twitter.com/michaeldweiss/status/1592878945556652035?s=20&t=Zxi7hpXq91VXQWhDOtZMCw

Hence the last election wherein the supporters of Democracy and collective security and support for Ukraine won decisively over the people trashing the Constitution.

Good for you Dua

An under appreciated result of this war has been the total devaluation of Russian military tech. Nobody with any sense would buy it and think it would be anything but garbage. If that keeps the thugs in the Kremlin and the palaces of Sochi from earning just that much more hard currency, all to the good. If the devaluation of Russian military tech deflates their political capital just a bit more it is also all to the good. Fewer opportunities to bribe the NRA and other GOP-affiliates. Fewer opportunities to work the back allies of the underworld. Fewer threats to US and allied politicians of blackmail. Incremental Good we should all be happy to support. And all it costs us was a fraction of our military budget. And it allowed us to show the Chinese that they should not sleep on Western military tech. You may be able to shatter Taiwan, and Okinawa with your missiles. You might be able to lodge on the coast of Taiwan. But if you do, we are coming for you and we have a very, very accurate big stick. And it will kick your ass.