If we attacked them we knew they'd strike back therefore it was a pre-emptive strike. The logic of bellicosity. Rubio this time.

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She will get to be in charge if she lets Trump loot her country. It’s kinda like when Paul Cicero took a 50% share of Sonny’s restaurant in Goodfellas.

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I'm not a diplomat, but one thing I have to do regularly is to draft or help to draft public statements that parties to litigation agree as part of a settlement. There is an art to drafting something that reasonable readers can agree is clear but from which they draw irreconcilable meanings. /1

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This abject fawning to someone whose Government only today announced that they want to promote ethnic-nationalism in Europe and are impatient at the unwillingness of Europe to allow Russia to grab want it wants by force is utterly mortifying. It is soul-cringeing.

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Every time see a US Govt spokesperson talk about the killings at sea, I am reminded of that exchange in the Big Short: “Why are they confessing? -They’re not confessing, they’re bragging.”

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