Pretty wild that ProPublica dropped an unbelievably damning article about pay-to-play corruption by Collins and the entire national political press conspired to make it go away.

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Surely he means that Russian planes will stop probing UK airspace. amuedge.com/britain-scra...

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"if someone makes a threatening move at you unprovoked, that increases the estimated risk of conflict; if you make a credible display of strength in return and they back off, it goes down again" is literally something children can (and do) understand

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and if things in the US took a dire enough turn that our neighbors felt threatened by us (as indeed they have, though a military shooting war isn't terribly likely) then they'd be fully justified in seeking new alliances! that's why Canada is wooing the EU and stuff!

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Yeah dawg it’s almost like Russia has a habit of invading damn near every place on its border that isn’t protected by NATO membership because they want to claw their empire back but know they’d get btfo if they tried something against us directly

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