New Transom: Ukraine, The New Right, And Defending The West
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As someone firmly in the non-interventionist camp, this “middle ground” doesn’t strike me as being all that divergent from the neoconservative position on Russia/Ukraine. Running guns to Ukraine while avoiding a no fly zone is basically Max Boot’s position, no?
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Our "experts" just lost a 20 year war against wearing flip flops and surrendered our manufacturing to our biggest future potential adversary. A lack of faith in them has made me an isolationist.
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In defense of those flip flop wearing radicals in Afghanistan, methinks they could outfight just about anyone - they haven’t lost yet.
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People have shifted opinions based on a false narrative coming from the White House and media-but I repeat myself. Your premise is they are correct-but what if the narrative we have been hearing are false. These are the same people who masked us, and killed our economy
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Our economy is the best it’s been in 40 years. Get out from your information bubble.
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An excellent piece, but the proof will be in the defense budgets that follow. A reasonable approach will be to moderately expand US presence in Europe, but continue to rebuild deterrent and offensive capabilities in the Pacific.
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A reasonable approach in Europe is to remind the EU that it has ten times the GDP and three times the population of Russia, so it shouldn't need Uncle Sam to do the heavy lifting to oppose Russia. We should be in an advisory capacity only and expect Europe to rebuild its military
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Excellent article! Foreign policy was never a binary choice [policeman of the world or isolationism]. Now we know that. Let's start acting like it.
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While sympathetic to the general tenor of this article, it is objectively wrong to characterize the interwar years by the mythology of isolationism. That mythology was deliberately created to justify the new US-led order post WW2. Will begin to peel this onion in my blog soon.