Remember when Facebook and others would make efforts to suppress outright disinformation, to point people towards reliable sources? And then sometime around the start of Biden’s presidency those efforts simply evaporated.

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A highly prominent liberal op-ed writer just posted a video noting that a significant part of the GOP meltdown in the Senate races is because of "low quality candidates". I agree, but this requires a re-examination of what political observers ordinarily mean when they use the term "low quality".

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Today is the least hostile the Democratic Party is going to be towards Israel that it will be for a long time to come. And that will be true tomorrow, next month, and a year from now. One way train.

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"The West" was generally supportive, handing out economic relief, opening its financial system to Russians, and investing heavily in Russian industries. Putin and his FSB men in particular took this as charity (which it was) and an attempt to loot "their" society (which it wasn't).

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It's a myth in much the same way that "Versailles created Hitler" is a myth. The idea being that there was something "the West" could have done differently that would have averted catastrophe. It's seductive for think tankers because it lets them spin off wild hypotheticals of what might have been.

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