I appreciate the sentiments, but at long last, sir, have you no sense of meter?

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Hi All, with all the news swirling around today of Trump trying to force Ukraine into a bad deal--and threatening to walk away if the Ukrainians refuse, I wrote this piece about the positive or negative ways that could work out for Ukraine. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

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It is not complicated.

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This Hegseth thing is funny and all — but the unprecedented incompetence, frivolity, and treachery of the entire cabinet puts us all at very real risk.

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The idea that the entire Pentagon is opposed to "the warfighters" is almost too absurd, too upside-down to be called a lie, at least in the conventional sense. Lies typically aim for at least a modicum of plausibility.

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