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Magnificent.

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The Biden administration is in lockstep with allies and partners on strategic questions! Unless they involve trade or economics, of course. 😬

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Jonathan Kirshner takes down structural arguments that China must seek regional/global hegemony to be secure. Only such a bid could threaten China’s survival:

General impression: Putin looks tired, even pathetic. Speech rating: 1/10. One of his weakest ever. He seems completely lost. His whole performance basically sucks. OK tuning off. Time for an aperitivo to restore deadened spirits.

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God, it's nice to see an honest debate about the extent and limits of US support to Ukraine, rather than the dancing around the issues while virtue-signaling that happens most of the rest of the time.

Um ... that second category that is headlined 'Substantively' is pretty devastating to IPEF.

Interesting 🧵on how the war is seen in CEE.

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One of the many absurd things about the discourse on here:

Biden is leading the Western campaign to support Ukraine. And yet if you express views similar to his about the dangers of the current situation, you are quickly derided as an appeaser or Putin stooge.

It’s tough when everyone wants Ukraine to win and everyone wants to avoid nuclear war and no one is really sure how to strike the balance but we all still want to argue with each other