More convinced than ever that if we had our current political elite and Twitter during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world would have ended.
Justin Logan
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Justin Logan
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- “For eight months after the Monica Lewinsky scandal broke, she refused to speak to her husband, until, in March 1999, she phoned him with a directive to attack [Serbia]. ‘I urged him to bomb,’ she later explained.”.@HillaryClinton asked what is the biggest challenge to women’s peace and security around the world: “I think the biggest challenge is men starting wars,” she said. “It seems like they don’t have enough to do.” @giwps #HRCAwards
- Replying to @JustinTLoganHenry Kissinger on why he supported the Iraq War: “because Afghanistan wasn’t enough.” In the conflict with radical Islam, he said, they want to humiliate us. “And we need to humiliate them.” Unspoken option three seems like where we wound up: humiliating ourselves.
- Just putting this down for posterity: both of these people are at the commanding heights of policymaking:
- People who think the politics of the lab leak theory today are anti-Chinese are behind the times. vanityfair.com/news/2021/10/n…
- “One side is to blame for everything the other side does” doesn’t have a lot of grounding in just war theory, international law, or much outside the WSJ Ed Board break room.
- With the announcement that the Iraq AUMF justifies an attack against Iran, we are now officially into “Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia” territory.Killing of Soleimani was under 2002 authorization of use of military force, says NSA O’Brien.
- Yes, Cut the Federal Government and Its Workforce
- Zelensky is in deep trouble. This could even set things up for a broader US distancing from Europe and handing the Ukraine War off to them. Major European capitals need to be moving much faster than they are.
- Biden sought "outside-the-box thinking" on the state of democracy so the WH convened Michael McFaul, Richard Haass, Fareed Zakaria, Ian Bremmer, Fiona Hill, James Stavridis, Jon Meacham, Anne Applebaum, Sean Wilentz and Michael Beschloss, and Allida Black.
- We *are* afraid to get into a conflict with the Russians in Ukraine because it would risk nuclear war and we would likely lose if it didn't.NEW: Did Biden’s vocal unwillingness to send US troops to Ukraine embolden Putin? Some NatSec observers think so. “The message we’re sending … is that we’re afraid of getting into a conflict with any Russians,” @KoriSchake says. #russia #ukraine politico.com/news/2022/02/2…
