Comments by "Walter Burton" (@WalterBurton) on "GZERO Media" channel.

  1. How does this end without Putin in the dock at a tribunal?
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  2. Much more coherent rebuttal to Mearsheimer than most (*cough*Zeihan*cough*).
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  3. Insulting. A lot of us will vote for whoever comes out of the convention, but a lot of people will stay home, because they feel deeply insulted by JillJoe's brittle-ego bullshit.
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  4. She's naive regarding UBI. Hopefully she'll catch up.
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  5. LOL @ Bremmer's resting "sure, man" face.
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  6. Who gives a shit if "the world" is on America's side? Sometimes you have to lead.
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  7. The technocrats failed us. Career State and career Pentagon are the ones who should be investigated and pilloried. This withdrawal was never going to be "honorable," but it should have---at the very least---been conducted with competence.
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  8. Oof. She's either clueless or in the tank for China. Ipso facto.
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  9. Insulting.
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  10. How so?
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  14. I haven't gotten used to the 90s being referred to as "decades ago."
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  15. Pretty well-done. 👍👍👍
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  16. I didn't think we were supposed to say that out-loud. 👍
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  17. I don't understand why it's not a net benefit to force the Chinese to put down their marker publicly at the UN.
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  19. Real talk.
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  20. So naive. Could be worse, though, I guess.
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  22. Don't even need an amendment. Just a law. This is yet another example of Congress kicking the can down the road and then disingenuously acting shocked.
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  23. What a palate cleanser. I feel like an old Irish Spring soap commercial.
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  27. Kotkin's "winning the peace." Sigh.
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  28. Mobilization incoming.
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  33. One little critique: Not following the Pentagon's advice is not the same as not soliciting it and considering it.
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  38. Everything's turning upside down very fast.
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  42. WapPo says, "He is expected to travel there [to Walter Reed] on Marine One and to walk out to the helicopter on his own." TRANSLATION: He wants the photo-op. QUESTION: Will he be wearing a mask?
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  45. Trenin also supports using nukes in Ukraine.
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  47. Musk owes you an apology.
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  49. I like what she has to say, but I'm sad (disappointed?) that she's not transmitting in a higher resolution from a futuristic power-office. Sincerely. I don't blame Ms. Fleming. Heck no. She's got one of the toughest jobs on the planet, especially if you're going by the ratio of performance-to-consequence.
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  51. Churchill would like a word. 🙄
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  56. Thumbs-up for allowing Deval Patrick enough time to show himself for the transparently disingenuous cynic that he is.
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  59. What an un-serious dope.
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  60. Oh GFY.
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  64. As big as the Iranian hostage crisis? Hmm. That's a bit much.
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  69. Good job, Bremmer. 👍👍👍
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  83. Definitely a fumble. I say that as a parent with a kid who will benefit from this. I'm dubious about the inflation and moral hazard arguments, but what a tone-deaf move.
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  91. When did he call the CCP assassins?
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  92. This. 👍👍👍
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  94. She messed up. It happens.
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  102. My fellow Americans would do well to learn more about the ethnic manipulation that's plagued those regions. 👍👍👍
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  105. yay 😔
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  113. Yup.
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  116. Such an important conversation, no matter what you think of Bremmer or Stoltenberg. Should be presented in every civics class in the world. Do we still have civics classes in the US? :-)
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  122. Jesus. It's Wednesday already. I can't keep up.
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  124. "If people want to understand Trump, they should read _City for Sale_."
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  129. "With Russian support" would be illicit.
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  140. Concerned that this episode doesn't seem to have been aired on either of my two local PBS stations.
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  142.  @purcitron  : Obviously. But why would you push back against the most likely scenario? What's motivating your contrarianism?
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  143. Then why wouldn't Western intel point the finger?
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  146. Most are not serious picks; only submitted to capture the news cycle.
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  147. The politics of enemies, versus the politics of loyal opposition. 😔
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  148. Yup. 😔
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  156. Sorry. I can't watch this dude. No offense, dude.
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  158. Practice makes perfect. :-(
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  165.  @thekentuckyan8088  : What do you want? A biscuit?
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  166. Yup.
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  171. WW III
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  176. Overly pessimistic. "Big hit?" Nah. As soon as Scalise or whoever gets read-in, the train will roll on.
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  185. 😬 👎 (nothing personal)
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  187. How does this video only have---? I mean---. Please keep fighting the good fight, Mr. Bremmer. 👍👍👍
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  188. Murphy's a dork, but he's exactly correct about Hawley and the Big Lie.
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  190. It's just very difficult to see this ending with Russia keeping Crimea.
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  192. Loathe both.
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  200. Bremmer doing a noticeable amount of tiptoeing. Not necessarily ill-advised, but obvious, nonetheless.
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  201. Hog farming? NIMBY!
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  203. Bureaucratic/technocratic State/Pentagon/IC failure. Can't pin it on a single admin. Process should've been COMPETENT, if nothing else. Congress needs to hold career S/P/IC people responsible, and take responsibility itself for not conducting thorough oversight.
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  205. Kelly has no sense of humor.
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  211. Nah.
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  214. Laaaaaame. 👎
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  221. Imagine even having this conversation 40 years ago. I'm just saying, progress! Ever the optimist, me.
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  225.  @edwardtang1977  : Convenient conspiracy theories and inchoate slippery slope arguments aren't sound policy anchors.
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  238. This is conspicuously mild. Almost to the point of dissembling.
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  239. There's nothing "right" about it, politically or otherwise. They're chaos agents. When they tell you they want to burn it all down, they're not joking. Not a single bit.
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  243. The career technocrats (State / Pentagon / IC) failed us. That's where any effective post-mortem of this begins.
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  254. Resilience. Redundancy. The Internet is a stronger system than the food supply. Time to turn this ponderous ship.
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  255. Yep. After he was acquitted the first time in the Senate, it was over. We just didn't realize it, yet.
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  261.  @MegaAssface  : The rest of the world is lost without the advanced democracies. I hope you see that. I hope you center your efforts around this fact.
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  262.  @MegaAssface  : Who do you think is the audience for the product that is the subject of this discussion (the risk assessment report)? Who provides the best standard of living in the world? A lot of us want to see the entire globe prosper; we're trying to figure out how to accomplish that. Trying to learn lessons and formulate predictive models that can spread health and wealth. Just stop with the aggressive stupidity. It's exhausting. Yes, I am "triggered" by your wasteful vitriol. But only because I see you as a potential agent for good.
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  263.  @MegaAssface  : His commentary at that point is specifically about the state of advanced wealthy democracies. The panel almost immediately pivots to the looming consequences of global inequality, health and wealth. So, what the fuck are you even talking about? Really chaps my ass, this constant forsaking of the forest for the trees. This willful self-righteousness that muddies and sullies and amounts to nothing but waste. So fucking sick of it. If you're just a naive ego-tripping student, know that, contrary to popular misconception, empathy doesn't automatically garner sympathy.
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  264. It worked from the WEIRD (Western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) perspective. That was the point.
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  266. It wasn't an obelisk, it was a mono----. No, it was just LITTER.
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  268. **SKIP**
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  284. Tough.
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  289. I feel like you should be doing air-quotes every time you say "Biden." I don't mean that in a cynical way. But the sooner we start normalizing that sensibility, the better.
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  291. The music is really annoying; the actual tunes and the levels. It's a mess. Otherwise, nice video. 👍
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  292. This nuance at ~12:00 (the distinction between economic migrants and forcibly displaced refugees) is so critical and it's so difficult to understand how this isn't considered "common sense" in 2020.
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  293. Whatever your critique of the substance, you have to respect the content. Nobody else is doing this. Not that I know of, anyway. I guess i should tweet this. Sigh.
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  296. Naive nonsense. Ach, dramanomics. What're you going to do? 2 steps forward, 1 step back. But still a net 1 step forward. Onward, soldiers! lol
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  303. However "politicized" the question has become, that doesn't absolve the Chinese of their guilt for failing to do the humane thing, which was to be open and transparent. Period. Then you build your politics (your foreign policy, your diplomacy) on top of that foundational truth. Which doesn't necessarily mean condemning the Chinese, but it's taking both the high ground and (conveniently) the humane ground.
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  310. Clearly, the right answer is that somebody other than shitstick Trump should be saying this. Trumpism must end.
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  316.  @PPEcon  : Yeah, OK. 🙄
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  317.  @PPEcon  : The lady doth protest too much. You rely too much on custom and tradition, as we did, you open yourself up to populist thugs like Trump. Semantics aside, what we're talking about is accountability. Integrity. Those expectations have to be enforced.
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  318.  @PPEcon  : Wrong. This (the current state of American politics) is what you get when you abandon the primacy of the law. This should be an example to you. Do as we say, not as we do. Reality TV politics. I wouldn't wish it on any nation state. Even Canada
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  319.  @billturner6564  : Ditto.
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  324. Who do you think buys all of those lottery tickets?
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  330. How can y'all at once argue against the wisdom of the Electoral College, while at the same time acknowledging the ignorance of the popular electorate? Seems like obvious MASSIVE cognitive dissonance to me. We do not want all of these morons voting. That's not racist or classist or anything. It's a problem that needs to be solved.
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  332. I've never followed anyone on Twitter. I make lists. Why anyone experiences Twitter in any other way is beyond me.
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  333. You gave her a chance. What more can you do? 👍👍👍
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  337. The problem with clipping parts of these out and turning them into "shorts" is that subscribers can never be sure if the short shows something new, or if it's just a re-run we've already seen.
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  338. So? How does that contradict what Bremmer said? He's one of Bolsonaro's most direct and vocal critics. Regardless of the details of the supply source---and, frankly, regardless of the faith of the populist's constituency----the infrastructure, the institutional competence, and the social trust are already there. Kudos to all of the Brazilian leaders who have done the right thing.
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  340. *You're indoors; take off your scarf.
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  347. Laurie Garret is on FIRE! 👍🔥👍
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  362.  @darbyheavey406  : Ackerman, obviously.
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  363. In waaaaay over his head.
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  367. Good get.
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  375.  @aland2465  What does that have to with my point about how the extra layers of fiscal management in the US confound the comparison?
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  376. One of the most important points among many @ ~3:50. "You're only talking about Stockholm." That's a critical dynamic. In the US, think about jurisdiction as it applies to budgeting. Holy crap.
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  377. Pathological ennui is running neck-and-neck with white nationalism when it comes to the race for the biggest terrorist threat to the US.
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  378. Fair point, about not abandoning Europe.
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  382. Ayup @ 9:41.
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  383. She's smart to lever the implications of China's coverup, because that instantly puts the entirety of the Bretten Woods folks (excepting China, obviously) on the right footing.
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  384. She's good, but not quite good enough.
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  387. Oh come on.
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  388. LOL @ stoned Betty 👍🤣👍
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  395. *The hackers didn't actually shut down the pipeline directly. It was strictly a ransomware attack. Which is irrelevant to your broader analysis, but, just saying. :-)
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  401. Sorry, but, FTG.
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  402. Nice panic room. I assume the facing wall is stacked floor to ceiling with canned food and those weird jugs of water that only preppers buy.
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  409. A hat indoors? Sigh. Yankees. What're you going to do?
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  412. How? Because ON THE GROUND, there is ZERO moral comparison. Come on, man. JFC.
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  413. Putin betrayed Europe, and Putin needs to go, or else Europe will grind Russia into petro dust. Russia is dead until it gets new leadership. Russia betrayed Europe. It almost doesn't matter who the successor is, as long as there is one. Putin is a backward thug. We thought we could civilize him. We've learned a terrible lesson. I'm not so naive as to believe that semantics aren't important. Calling a spade a spade never comes without cost. Medvedev or Navalny or some other equally problematic Russian: who cares? Russia needs to figure out the succession problem, since Russia has (once again) failed to do it itself. It's our job to keep them bogged down in Ukraine until they do. Which is very sad. It makes my heart heavy.
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  414. Russia WITH PUTIN AT THE HELM needs to be thrown out of the G20. IMPORTANT DISTINCTION.
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  418.  @bbkGT3  : 🙄
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  429. The answer is, SSDD. Thankfully the red hats didn't torpedo the status quo. Which isn't meant to suggest that the status quo is anything to be proud of.
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  434. Simple, cold, warm, utilitarianism, FTW. :-)
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  435.  @jhrusa8125  : Fair rebuttal. Important distinction that commenters above don't seem to appreciate. Super important. 👍👍👍 I don't, however, agree with your assertion that Bremmer is "propping up" China, in general, or Xi, specifically. That doesn't mean that I couldn't be persuaded. I don't detect any undeclared biases. But my detector admittedly has a spotty history. :-)
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  445. "Misinformation coming from people who know better" isn't a new thing. What's new, I think, what is the thing that's actually "abhorrent" is the line that these people have crossed. First we sensed that line, before we could articulate much about it. We've gotten better, but we need to start defining that line more crisply and throwing down gates.
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  448.  @purcitron  : Tsk. You're still taking the contrarian position. COULD it have been extraterrestrials? Sure. Was it most likely UKR/POL? That's what the evidence suggests.
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  449.  @purcitron  : I don't believe the public "has a right to know everything." Quite the contrary. So we're left to speculate. The most likely NS saboteurs are some combination of UKR/POL/ELL. No need to invoke Cortes analogy or otherwise attempt to fit a square peg into a round hole.
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  450.  @purcitron  : Not sure what to tell you. 🤷 Far more plausible that UKR with the help of POL and maybe ELL blew the pipeline to limit GER/EUR calculus. That scenario is much more explanatory than any alternative I've heard. If West has evidence of RUS sabotage, why haven't they revealed it? Most likely they would. If West has evidence of UKR/POL sabotage, why wouldn't they reveal it? We can imagine several reasons the wouldn't; reasons that don't require any rhetorical gymnastics.
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  451.  @purcitron  : No, I'm definitely not.
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  452. Needs more work.
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  453. CLUMSY! Coming and going. Just clumsy. So disappointed in all of the "leadership."
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  454. I wish Dr. Haas would stay off of _Morning Joe_. It's a deal with the devil. No, I can't propose an alternative. I don't know what the answer is. But that table is unwatchable.
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  456. "Above all else, a diplomat...."
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  460. Too much fat in this discussion.
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  461. Very interesting. Thanks.
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  463. Thank you.
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  464. "Everybody that's watching this knows that." Yup. 😔
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  475. Eh. You buried the lede (Ukraine/Putin), and you didn't give nearly enough weight to his---. Oh, whatever.
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  479. Ouch. Fair.
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  485. @ ~4:12: You meant to say that you could NOT care less. One of my pet peeves. I'm the best editor nobody's ever heard of.
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  487. Watch the whole piece, morons in the comments. Think about it. Then edit your words, or just delete them.
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  488. Yes, in hindsight, the West should have responded more forcefully to Putin's provocations. Those are past mistakes. We can argue endlessly about realism versus values versus dollars. But none of that matters right now, in this moment. Putin, with his NUKES, can't be permitted to behave this way. Period.
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  493.  @dirtypure2023  /rollseyes
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  494.  @dirtypure2023  Define the term "cold war," and then explain to me why that isn't a meaningful term to apply to this situation. Please.
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  495. Her criticism of the Cold War analogy was flimsy.
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  500. If it's from the editorial board, it's not an op-ed. That's literally the definition of---. JFC. /rollseyes
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  514. "That would have involved democracy and the little people can’t be trusted with that." Accurate. Biggest challenge we face today. Underpins literally every social concern. If you trust your neighbor on climate change, consider yourself lucky to live in such an enlightened neighborhood. Extremely lucky.
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  519.  @pspence9569  Something tells me we can take it. ;-)
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  526. Ian has the biggest books. lol
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  530. We need to have a dialog with the void to better understand it?
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  531.  @1.21gigawatts  : Yep. It's a show that airs on many PBS stations.
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  532. It was the entire last third of the video. US is the leading world power, but not without strong allies.
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  533. The Quad doesn't have anybody's back. The Quad is a credible alternative. Important distinction.
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  549. OMG, the nerds commenting on this video about the damned Anatolians. They're COMPLETELY missing the forest for the trees (and they've obviously never spent any time in the region). HUH-LARIOUS! 👍🤣👍
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  554. Fair enough. 👍
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  557. He thinks it does "necessitate a degree of US leadership." Sigh. Thank you, Ian, for shining a bright light on this nonsense. 👍👍👍
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  568. THE EROSION OF THE LEGISLATURE. The abrogation (ceding?)---by BOTH parties---of their responsibilities, to the Executive, has been terrible to watch. Insulting.
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  569. I was put in Twitter Jail for saying that Nate Silver should be tarred-and-feathered. I appealed. My appeal was rejected. My account was eventually restored, after 12 hours. First infraction, now they say I'll be permanently banned if I mess up again. I'm terrified. For reasons apparent and maybe not-so-obvious, this seems like a good place to put this comment.
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  574. Ruth Bader Biden. The early debate also gives the Dems a chance to pick someone other than Joe at the convention, if things go sideways.
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  581. *Edward Snowden / Wikileaks disclosures should be part of that list too. Big time undermining.
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  582. "That should be a terrifying and mobilizing force for people." You'd think, wouldn't you?
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  591. I think this is fair, as far as it goes. Which is not any further than the other mundane takes floating out there among the commentariat. Most of y'all assume the major premise that success is best measured by fatality rates. Which is overly simplistic, if not outright naive. If Obama had been President, the messaging would have been clearer and more transparently science-based, for sure. One hundred percent. It would have been better , by most reasonable people's standards. Certainly by mine. But you fail to recognize (at least openly) the real challenges of population control at this scale, in this unique society.
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  598. Where is the Rubicon?
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  600. Dramanomics. We're losing ourselves to infantilism. EDIT: Thumbs-down because you should have been tougher. You know what you wanted to say. I appreciate the minefield, but you didn't even try to cross it. 👎
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  629. Nicely re-packaged. Sincerely. 👍👍👍
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  631. 40% of the country (at least) is UNAMBIGUOUSLY stupid, and that observation has nothing to do with Trump's electoral performance. But it's not a question of whether they DESERVE to be dehumanized. That's the wrong question. We CANNOT dehumanize them. Rather, we can't do that and at the same time claim any sort of coherent strategy going forward. This is a lock, and we have to find the key.
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  633.  @farhanrizkiahnafa7404  Talking about the US.
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  635. Yup.
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  637.  @bretc4434  : These numpties don't give a single shit about facts. Might is right, end of discussion. "Be the change you want to see." These horrible people are doing exactly that. 😔
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