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That Russian apologist professor at the end is REALLY hard to take. His cherry-picked version of history and WWIII fear-mongering is political propaganda, and not based upon the facts. Somehow members of the so-called Right these days talk precisely how Bernie Sanders used to back in the 1980s, yet expect to be taken seriously. Megyn, do better.
Fact is, in the early 1990s, with Yeltsin in charge in Russia, it was widely thought that the Cold War and its vestiges had been permanently erased. Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History" perfectly captured the moment. The US asked Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons, which they only did in exchange for a US guarantee of protection. We then sold them down the river, like we have all too often with the Kurds. I wish we were more honorable in our relations with other countries.
Fact is, if Trump were in office, the Ukraine invasion would have never happened. It was Biden's ineptitude which gave Putin the green light to do as he pleased. That started with the Afghan disaster, of course, but then continued with Biden's pulling the choke chain on the Ukrainians, again showing weakness and fear to the Russians.
Which is precisely what Jeffrey Sachs favors. Biden should have let Ukraine be aggressive against Russia on Day One, and perhaps this war could have ended much earlier. Instead this administration did everything to ensure a long-term quagmire, giving Ukraine just enough to prolong a war and drag out endless slaughter. This belated move by Biden is a small step in the right direction of placing Ukraine in a better negotiating position once Trump enters office.
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Perhaps the OP appreciated that the girl on the right is really attractive, and the one on the left had a semi-open jacket with no shirt on, and (seemingly) no bra either. As a red blooded American male, I can certainly understand that viewpoint. But keeping the volume on didn't add anything.
While we are here...I find it odd that Megyn never gave them a proper introduction. It's one thing for her to not explain to the audience who The Fifth Column is, or Ruthless. After all, those folks are on very, very frequently. But these two? I've been listening to Megyn religiously for nearly two years now, and I don't believe that I have ever heard of them. Perhaps Megyn was trying to avoid saying, "And now two extremely boring guests who add nothing to the show, unless you're a male watching on YT looking for eye candy." Even then, it might have been nice to know where she found these two. Not that I'm all that interested, because they add nothing. Thay said, I do think that they would be good candidates to read a mattress commercial, as they do a wonderful job putting everyone to sleep.
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That Russian apologist professor at the end is REALLY hard to take. His cherry-picked version of history and WWIII fear-mongering is political propaganda, and not based upon the facts. Somehow members of the so-called Right these days talk precisely how Bernie Sanders used to back in the 1980s, yet expect to be taken seriously. Megyn, do better.
Fact is, in the early 1990s, with Yeltsin in charge in Russia, it was widely thought that the Cold War and its vestiges had been permanently erased. Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History" perfectly captured the moment. The US asked Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons, which they only did in exchange for a US guarantee of protection. We then sold them down the river, like we have all too often with the Kurds. I wish we were more honorable in our relations with other countries.
Fact is, if Trump were in office, the Ukraine invasion would have never happened. It was Biden's ineptitude which gave Putin the green light to do as he pleased. That started with the Afghan disaster, of course, but then continued with Biden's pulling the choke chain on the Ukrainians, again showing weakness and fear to the Russians.
Which is precisely what Jeffrey Sachs favors. Biden should have let Ukraine be aggressive against Russia on Day One, and perhaps this war could have ended much earlier. Instead this administration did everything to ensure a long-term quagmire, giving Ukraine just enough to prolong a war and drag out endless slaughter. This belated move by Biden is a small step in the right direction of placing Ukraine in a better negotiating position once Trump enters office.
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That Russian apologist professor at the end of Thursday's show (Episode 950) is REALLY hard to take. His cherry-picked version of history and WWIII fear-mongering is political propaganda, and not based upon the facts. Somehow members of the so-called Right these days talk precisely how Bernie Sanders used to talk back in the 1980s, yet expect to be taken seriously.
Fact is, in the early 1990s, with Yeltsin in charge in Russia, it was widely thought that the Cold War and its vestiges had become part of a world which had suddenly yet permanently ceased to exist. Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History" perfectly captured the moment. The US asked Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons, which they only did in exchange for a US guarantee of protection. We then sold them down the river, like we have all too often with the Kurds. I wish we were more honorable in our relations with other countries.
We all know that if Trump had been in office, the 2022 invasion of Ukraine would not have happened. It was Biden's ineptitude which gave Putin the green light to do as he pleased. That started with the Afghan disaster, of course, but then continued with Biden's pulling the choke chain on the Ukrainians, again showing weakness and fear to the Russians.
Which is precisely what Jeffrey Sachs favors. In fact, what Biden should have done is let Ukraine be aggressive against Russia on Day One, whereupon this war could have ended much earlier. Instead this administration did everything to ensure a long-term quagmire, giving Ukraine just enough assistance to prolong a war and drag out endless slaughter. This belated move by Biden is a small step in the right direction of placing Ukraine in a better negotiating position once Trump enters office. Biden should have sent F-16s at the start as well, but openly admitted to being scared off by Putin's saber-rattling. Of course Putin will threaten WWIII any time he thinks he can convince the US to back off. What else does he have in his pocket? That sort of thing works on the Jimmy Carters, Joe Bidens, and Bernie Sanderses of the world. It is not supposed to work on Republicans. It sure didn't work on Reagan. And it would absolutely not work on Trump. Remember Trump telling Kim Jong-Un that the US nuclear button is a lot bigger than North Korea's?
No, there is no serious possibility that Putin is going to go nuclear. Russia is a backwater mess of a disaster of a country. Do their nukes even work? Putin has no interest in finding out, because there is a good chance that they don't. But ours do, and Putin would not only be dead in five minutes, his entire country would be in ruins. Remember what drives Putin more than anything else: A need to be seen by history as a Russian strongman who returned his country to its glory days of yore. Leaving it non-existent? He is not interested, really.
Despite some self-proclaimed Maga types pushing US isolationism as part of a larger picture of US fear and cowardice in front of weak pretenders like Putin and Russia, their platform of Democrat weakness is not only not Reagan-esque, it isn't Trump-esque either. They speak for themselves, and not for Donald Trump. Even JD Vance isn't opposed to the West helping Ukraine ward off Russian aggression, but only asks that the funding come from Europe.
As it happens, Ben Shapiro also covered this topic of Biden's latest move, followed by Putin's latest threat, on his show this week, either on Tuesday or Wednesday (I forget). Ben assured that the absolutely last thing Russia would do is pick a fight with the US, and certainly not a nuclear war. Ben is correct. The only serious concern we should have is the possibility of showing weakness to Putin and other nefarious actors on the world scene. Nothing encourages the bad guys more. The only reliable way to preserve peace is to exude fearless strength. After all, whenever US power is on display, our enemies tremble in fear. Which is how it should be.
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That Russian apologist professor at the end is REALLY hard to take. His cherry-picked version of history and WWIII fear-mongering is political propaganda, and not based upon the facts. Somehow members of the so-called Right these days talk precisely how Bernie Sanders used to back in the 1980s, yet expect to be taken seriously. Megyn, do better.
Fact is, in the early 1990s, with Yeltsin in charge in Russia, it was widely thought that the Cold War and its vestiges had been permanently erased. Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History" perfectly captured the moment. The US asked Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons, which they only did in exchange for a US guarantee of protection. We then sold them down the river, like we have all too often with the Kurds. I wish we were more honorable in our relations with other countries.
Fact is, if Trump were in office, the Ukraine invasion would have never happened. It was Biden's ineptitude which gave Putin the green light to do as he pleased. That started with the Afghan disaster, of course, but then continued with Biden's pulling the choke chain on the Ukrainians, again showing weakness and fear to the Russians.
Which is precisely what Jeffrey Sachs favors. Biden should have let Ukraine be aggressive against Russia on Day One, and perhaps this war could have ended much earlier. Instead this administration did everything to ensure a long-term quagmire, giving Ukraine just enough to prolong a war and drag out endless slaughter. This belated move by Biden is a small step in the right direction of placing Ukraine in a better negotiating position once Trump enters office.
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So much of this reminds me of 6 year old JonBenét Ramsey. Police detective Steve Ramsey decided immediately that Patsy, JonBenét's mom, had killed JonBenét by mistake. The theory not only made no sense, it was physically impossible. Yet he spent all day, day after day, week after week, leaking one false story after another to the tabloids, as he tried to pressure JonBenét's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, to turn on each other. It's been nearly 30 years, but we still don't know who killed JonBenét, thanks to the incompetence of the Boulder PD. And because Steve Thomas spread blatant lies everywhere, many people still falsely blame the Ramseys for the death of little 6 year old JonBenét. In real life, the family was totally exonerated; we know with certainty that this crime was committed by someone who broke into the house. Yet the Boulder PD still refuses to give the case over to the FBI for genealogical genetic testing, despite John Ramsey begging them to do so and solve the case in his lifetime.
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So much of this reminds me of 6 year old JonBenét Ramsey. Police detective Steve Ramsey decided immediately that Patsy, JonBenét's mom, had killed JonBenét by mistake. The theory not only made no sense, it was physically impossible. Yet he spent all day, day after day, week after week, leaking one false story after another to the tabloids, as he tried to pressure JonBenét's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, to turn on each other. It's been nearly 30 years, but we still don't know who killed JonBenét, thanks to the incompetence of the Boulder PD. And because Steve Thomas spread blatant lies everywhere, many people still falsely blame the Ramseys for the death of little 6 year old JonBenét. In real life, the family was totally exonerated; we know with certainty that this crime was committed by someone who broke into the house. Yet the Boulder PD still refuses to give the case over to the FBI for genealogical genetic testing, despite John Ramsey begging them to do so and solve the case in his lifetime.
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The poll shows that 41% of 18-29 year olds find the assassination unacceptable, 24% somewhat acceptable, and 17% acceptable. Overall, 68% say unacceptable, 17% acceptable, and 16% unsure. Percentage-wise, that means that among the overall population, those who had an opinion were 80% not acceptable, 20% acceptable. Those who were most likely to find it acceptable were a)young, b)male, and c)Democrats.
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This is hard to imagine for the younger folks, but when CNN started, they were known as the quasi-conservative alternative to the big three networks. Unlike the big three, all based in NYC, the theory was that being based in the South, in Atlanta, kept them independent. And the guy who started it, Ted Turner, was somewhat conservative at the time. Unfortunately, he went on to marry Hanoi Jane, and that was the end of that.
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So much of this reminds me of 6 year old JonBenét Ramsey. Police detective Steve Ramsey decided immediately that Patsy, JonBenét's mom, had killed JonBenét by mistake. The theory not only made no sense, it was physically impossible. Yet he spent all day, day after day, week after week, leaking one false story after another to the tabloids, as he tried to pressure JonBenét's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, to turn on each other. It's been nearly 30 years, but we still don't know who killed JonBenét, thanks to the incompetence of the Boulder PD. And because Steve Thomas spread blatant lies everywhere, many people still falsely blame the Ramseys for the death of little 6 year old JonBenét. In real life, the family was totally exonerated; we know with certainty that this crime was committed by someone who broke into the house. Yet the Boulder PD still refuses to give the case over to the FBI for genealogical genetic testing, despite John Ramsey begging them to do so and solve the case in his lifetime.
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So much of this reminds me of 6 year old JonBenét Ramsey. Police detective Steve Ramsey decided immediately that Patsy, JonBenét's mom, had killed JonBenét by mistake. The theory not only made no sense, it was physically impossible. Yet he spent all day, day after day, week after week, leaking one false story after another to the tabloids, as he tried to pressure JonBenét's parents, John and Patsy Ramsey, to turn on each other. It's been nearly 30 years, but we still don't know who killed JonBenét, thanks to the incompetence of the Boulder PD. And because Steve Thomas spread blatant lies everywhere, many people still falsely blame the Ramseys for the death of little 6 year old JonBenét. In real life, the family was totally exonerated; we know with certainty that this crime was committed by someone who broke into the house. Yet the Boulder PD still refuses to give the case over to the FBI for genealogical genetic testing, despite John Ramsey begging them to do so and solve the case in his lifetime.
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@MichaelSSmith-hs5pw
The military was opposed to conscription before Vietnam, and their opposition grew considerably as a result of it. Drafted soldiers in WWII at least were patriotic and - for the most part - felt a responsibility to be there. In Vietnam, they had no interest, and actually - in the opinion of the career soldiers - were more hindrance than help.
Furthermore, the draft only became seriously unpopular as the war dragged on over years, and even then only in the left. Today it would be fiercely opposed, across the board, from the very beginning.
No government, outside of an autocracy, will reasonably try to force conscription upon an unwilling populace. It wouldn't work militarily or politically. Today, a draft would be wildly unpopular from the get go, on both sides of the aisle. The military would be opposed. And the voters would, at their first opportunity, vote out anyone who helped implement it. As such, the draft being instituted is absolutely unfathomable in today's environment.
Ignorance combined with arrogance is not a good look, sweetie. Try educating yourself, then gaining some perspective on life.
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Wow. Your comment brings to mind countries such as North Korea, or the Congo, dictatorships devoid of freedom which pointedly place the word "Democratic" (or some variation thereof) into their name, as if that word alone makes up for their totalitarian society. Similarly, communist movements in Western countries pretend that wealth confiscation and other state infringements upon personal liberty are an example of "democracy" and "freedom", the precise opposite of the truth.
See, in a free country, the government's job (as the Declaration emphasized) is protect the citizenry's God-given rights. An individual's rights only end when they overstep into intrusion into someone else's space.
No, forcing people to vote at gunpoint is not an exercise in freedom or liberty, but rather in tyranny. A mild interference, as these things go, but such intrusions, left unchecked, present a danger of beginning a slow descent into authrotrianism. See Australia, where voting is mandatory, and where the terrifying loss of freedom during two plus years of Covid were exposed to the world.
Anyone with a basic understanding of American values innately understands how un-American compulsary voting would be, as in fact compulsory nearly-anything is. Shall we force the public to exercise and eat vegetables as well?
"The best government is that which governs least."
- Henry David Thoreau
Our founders understood that point instinctively. Confusing an intrusive dictatorship with a traditional liberal republic is a mistake none of them would have made.
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Biden's dementia makes everyone forget about his own threat to democracy. His administration continues to use lawfare against his opponent in NY, DC, GA,and FL. He repeatedly violates the Constitution by having hard working taxpayers foot the bill for obnoxious, pro-Ham ss kids taking gender study classes in college. He unconstitutionally tried to force 80m Americans to take a shot, now shown to unalive otherwise healthy people, teens especially. He dishonorably discharged military members who refused to take that dangerous shot, hurting both those them and the military as a whole. He turned the military into a woke garbage center, badly hurting US preparation for war. Biden backs terror groups in the Middle East, funding billions of dollars to Iran and Russia, and supporting Ham ss, costing lives of countless people in the process, Americans included. He took Afghanistan, which was peacefully run by our allies without a single American life being at risk, and handed it over to the Taliban, killing many innocents in the process, including 13 Americans, as well as handing over billions of dollars of the most advanced American equipment to the Taliban. And by doing so showed monumental weakness to our enemies throughout the world, leading directly to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Iran's (through Ham ss) of 🇮🇱, while also encouraging the Houthis, Hezbollah and other terror groups' attacks, by showing total fecklessness. Biden has opened our border wide, allowing in millions of ill gal immigrants, leading to the ra *pe and mu *rder of Americans. He has also shredded our economy with inflation not seen in two generations. He has been unbelievably divisive, giving incredibly nasty speeches attacking the character of half the country, spreading terrible slander about both them and their preferred candidate (such as with the "good people on both sides" lie), unforgivable for someone who claims to be a unifying figure as president of the whole country, not half of it.
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@HarleyLesley0208
He's ignorant about a lot of things. Willfully ignorant, I suppose. His cherry-picked version of history and WWIII fear-mongering is political propaganda, and not based upon the facts. Somehow members of the so-called Right these days talk precisely how Bernie Sanders used to back in the 1980s, yet expect to be taken seriously. Megyn, do better.
Fact is, in the early 1990s, with Yeltsin in charge in Russia, it was widely thought that the Cold War and its vestiges had been permanently erased. Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History" perfectly captured the moment. The US asked Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons, which they only did in exchange for a US guarantee of protection. We then sold them down the river, like we have all too often with the Kurds. I wish we were more honorable in our relations with other countries.
Fact is, if Trump were in office, the Ukraine invasion would have never happened. It was Biden's ineptitude which gave Putin the green light to do as he pleased. That started with the Afghan disaster, of course, but then continued with Biden's pulling the choke chain on the Ukrainians, again showing weakness and fear to the Russians.
Which is precisely what Jeffrey Sachs favors. Biden should have let Ukraine be aggressive against Russia on Day One, and perhaps this war could have ended much earlier. Instead this administration did everything to ensure a long-term quagmire, giving Ukraine just enough to prolong a war and drag out endless slaughter. This belated move by Biden is a small step in the right direction of placing Ukraine in a better negotiating position once Trump enters office.
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Sachs is REALLY hard to take. His cherry-picked version of history and WWIII fear-mongering is political propaganda, and not based upon the facts. Somehow members of the so-called Right these days talk precisely how Bernie Sanders used to talk back in the 1980s, yet expect to be taken seriously.
Fact is, in the early 1990s, with Yeltsin in charge in Russia, it was widely thought that the Cold War and its vestiges had become part of a world which had suddenly yet permanently ceased to exist. Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History" perfectly captured the moment. The US asked Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons, which they only did in exchange for a US guarantee of protection. We then sold them down the river, like we have all too often with the Kurds. I wish we were more honorable in our relations with other countries.
We all know that if Trump had been in office, the 2022 invasion of Ukraine would not have happened. It was Biden's ineptitude which gave Putin the green light to do as he pleased. That started with the Afghan disaster, of course, but then continued with Biden's pulling the choke chain on the Ukrainians, again showing weakness and fear to the Russians.
Which is precisely what Jeffrey Sachs favors. In fact, what Biden should have done is let Ukraine be aggressive against Russia on Day One, whereupon this war could have ended much earlier. Instead this administration did everything to ensure a long-term quagmire, giving Ukraine just enough assistance to prolong a war and drag out endless slaughter. This belated move by Biden is a small step in the right direction of placing Ukraine in a better negotiating position once Trump enters office. Biden should have sent F-16s at the start as well, but openly admitted to being scared off by Putin's saber-rattling. Of course Putin will threaten WWIII any time he thinks he can convince the US to back off. What else does he have in his pocket? That sort of thing works on the Jimmy Carters, Joe Bidens, and Bernie Sanderses of the world. It is not supposed to work on Republicans. It sure didn't work on Reagan. And it would absolutely not work on Trump. Remember Trump telling Kim Jong-Un that the US nuclear button is a lot bigger than North Korea's?
No, there is no serious possibility that Putin is going to go nuclear. Russia is a backwater mess of a disaster of a country. Do their nukes even work? Putin has no interest in finding out, because there is a good chance that they don't. But ours do, and Putin would not only be dead in five minutes, his entire country would be in ruins. Remember what drives Putin more than anything else: A need to be seen by history as a Russian strongman who returned his country to its glory days of yore. Leaving it non-existent? He is not interested, really.
Despite some self-proclaimed Maga types pushing US isolationism as part of a larger picture of US fear and cowardice in front of weak pretenders like Putin and Russia, their platform of Democrat weakness is not only not Reagan-esque, it isn't Trump-esque either. They speak for themselves, and not for Donald Trump. Even JD Vance isn't opposed to the West helping Ukraine ward off Russian aggression, but only asks that the funding come from Europe.
As it happens, Ben Shapiro also covered this topic of Biden's latest move, followed by Putin's latest threat, on his show this week, either on Tuesday or Wednesday (I forget). Ben assured that the absolutely last thing Russia would do is pick a fight with the US, and certainly not a nuclear war. Ben is correct. The only serious concern we should have is the possibility of showing weakness to Putin and other nefarious actors on the world scene. Nothing encourages the bad guys more. The only reliable way to preserve peace is to exude fearless strength. After all, whenever US power is on display, our enemies tremble in fear. Which is how it should be.
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@JoE_Songs
I find Sachs REALLY hard to take. His cherry-picked version of history and WWIII fear-mongering is political propaganda, and not based upon the facts. Somehow members of the so-called Right these days talk precisely how Bernie Sanders used to talk back in the 1980s, yet expect to be taken seriously.
Fact is, in the early 1990s, with Yeltsin in charge in Russia, it was widely thought that the Cold War and its vestiges had become part of a world which had suddenly yet permanently ceased to exist. Francis Fukuyama's "The End of History" perfectly captured the moment. The US asked Ukraine to give up their nuclear weapons, which they only did in exchange for a US guarantee of protection. We then sold them down the river, like we have all too often with the Kurds. I wish we were more honorable in our relations with other countries.
We all know that if Trump had been in office, the 2022 invasion of Ukraine would not have happened. It was Biden's ineptitude which gave Putin the green light to do as he pleased. That started with the Afghan disaster, of course, but then continued with Biden's pulling the choke chain on the Ukrainians, again showing weakness and fear to the Russians.
Which is precisely what Jeffrey Sachs favors. In fact, what Biden should have done is let Ukraine be aggressive against Russia on Day One, whereupon this war could have ended much earlier. Instead this administration did everything to ensure a long-term quagmire, giving Ukraine just enough assistance to prolong a war and drag out endless slaughter. This belated move by Biden is a small step in the right direction of placing Ukraine in a better negotiating position once Trump enters office. Biden should have sent F-16s at the start as well, but openly admitted to being scared off by Putin's saber-rattling. Of course Putin will threaten WWIII any time he thinks he can convince the US to back off. What else does he have in his pocket? That sort of thing works on the Jimmy Carters, Joe Bidens, and Bernie Sanderses of the world. It is not supposed to work on Republicans. It sure didn't work on Reagan. And it would absolutely not work on Trump. Remember Trump telling Kim Jong-Un that the US nuclear button is a lot bigger than North Korea's?
No, there is no serious possibility that Putin is going to go nuclear. Russia is a backwater mess of a disaster of a country. Do their nukes even work? Putin has no interest in finding out, because there is a good chance that they don't. But ours do, and Putin would not only be finished in five minutes, his entire country would be in ruins. Remember what drives Putin more than anything else: A need to be seen by history as a Russian strongman who returned his country to its glory days of yore. Leaving it non-existent? He is not interested, really.
Despite some self-proclaimed Maga types pushing US isolationism as part of a larger picture of US fear and cowardice in front of weak pretenders like Putin and Russia, their platform of Democrat weakness is not only not Reagan-esque, it isn't Trump-esque either. They speak for themselves, and not for Donald Trump. Even JD Vance isn't opposed to the West helping Ukraine ward off Russian aggression, but only asks that the funding come from Europe.
As it happens, Ben Shapiro also covered this topic of Biden's latest move, followed by Putin's latest threat, on his show this week, either on Tuesday or Wednesday (I forget). Ben assured that the absolutely last thing Russia would do is pick a fight with the US, and certainly not a nuclear war. Ben is correct. The only serious concern we should have is the possibility of showing weakness to Putin and other nefarious actors on the world scene. Nothing encourages the bad guys more. The only reliable way to preserve peace is to exude fearless strength. After all, whenever US power is on display, our enemies tremble in fear. Isn't that the best scenario?
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