"Reassuring an enemy what one will not do ensures that the enemy will do just that and more."
"No-fly zones don’t work in a big-power, symmetrical standoff. In a cost-benefit analysis, they are not worth the risk of shooting down the planes of a nuclear power."
Europe, NATO members, and Germany in particular have de facto admitted that their past decades of shutting down nuclear plants, coal mines, and oil and gas fields have left Europe at the mercy of Russia.
"[Communist-occupied] China is now pro-Russian."
"Americans are finally digesting just how destructive the humiliating flight from Afghanistan was."
"The Ukraine war did not cause inflation and record gas prices. Both were already spiking by early February 2022."
"Putin did not invade during the Trump tenure—although he had been more aggressive under previous American leadership with his prior attacks on Georgia, Ukraine, and Crimea."
"It is not “escalation” to send arms to Ukraine. The Russians far more aggressively supplied the North Koreans and North Vietnamese in their wars against America, without spreading the war globally."
"Putin may never fully absorb Ukraine as long as it can easily be supplied across its borders by four NATO countries.
"It is not “un-American” to point out that prior American appeasement under the Obama and the Biden Administrations explains not why Putin wished to go into Ukraine, but why he felt he could. It is not “treasonous” to say Ukraine and the United States previously should have stayed out of each other’s domestic affairs and politics—but still do not excuse Putin’s savage aggression."
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