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ryan costa
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The U.S. is in the precarious position of pretending to not be at war with Russia and pretending to be at war with Russia at the same time.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mKTEbhB2m ... lsa2Vyc29u

Mearsheimer is almost as smart as Matlock


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r4wLXNydz ... FIAQ%3D%3D

Matlock will solve this case

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WpGxDoieN ... JnaA%3D%3D


I have decided to not vote this year

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dbddraJLb ... Vic3RhbmNl
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I cannot keep up with the strategery.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mdMqI8mdQ3o


The rhetoric the two main political parties and their attendant pundits use to compete with each other is complete nonsense. Since this competition is for American votes, American voters are equally valuable.

https://www.trade.gov/country-commercia ... 20percent).


https://wits.worldbank.org/CountrySnapshot/en/CHN
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China outclasses the United States and Europe combined.

The Middle East is a perpetual powder keg.

Pakistan is an unreliable ally at best. Al Queda liked hanging out there even more than in Afghanistan.

The best strategy would have been spending the last twenty years trying to get along with Russia. I cannot think of a second best strategy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0hhftoWJRw
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"Is this flummery” — Archie Goodwin
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He is right: Turkey is unlikely to participate in a NATO land war against Russia
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0xV5qVEV- ... d29ya3M%3D
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"Is this flummery” — Archie Goodwin
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They are confusing the American audience: most of them would associate the word ‘liberal’ with the words ‘black’ or ‘gay’.
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I can see that President Cheney and Bush Junior were not the only guys with strategery.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Odz9zcIMLwk
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The nominal Left has been more militant than the nominal Right for the last three years. This can lead to wasting time trying to define the nominal Left and the nominal Right. If not for the sake of intellectual clarity, then at least for marketing and campaigning.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uga7qmuUG ... ZWltZXI%3D

The bi-partisan premise is that the U.S. will not really have to pay for any of it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zoxj-LSeU0o
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