This piece does not provide much reassurance that a Putin successor — even in the case of successful “regime change” — will be *that* much better. It’s not going to be Illya Kuryakin … https://t.co/koI6Q8dbPU
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Mar 28, 2022
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Most obviously, the Biden WH may have felt a show of Big Strength would help erase memories of the botched Afghanistan withdrawal (which seems to have had a huge negative impact on Biden’s polls) and short-circuit a future “weakness” charge. Meanwhile, Ukraine pays the price. https://t.co/Mqyoa3MHfi
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Mar 28, 2022
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“He’s a second Bashar al-Assad. He must fall,” writes Simon Tisdall, without any apparent sense of irony https://t.co/ksNJk7nyR5
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Mar 28, 2022
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“I asked at the time in The American Prospect, how can you justify some part of the working class paying taxes to subsidize mothers who choose not to work” writes @StanleyGreenberg. Then he endorses a refundable child tax credit which does just that. https://t.co/Lj2E6aPsJx
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Mar 27, 2022
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Again, it’s not just the ad lib at the end. The whole speech was too strident, polarizing, and grandiloquent for the current crisis. Failed to “match the moment,” to use the Bidenist cliche. Who was behind it and can anybody in the WH talk back to this person? https://t.co/gTYGGZFMb0
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Mar 27, 2022
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March 27, 2022 at 04:09PM
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Officer Time reports for duty … @UnHerd https://t.co/v3n0DFgPTb
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Mar 27, 2022
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The fall of Seattle @UnHerd https://t.co/v3n0DFgPTb “a cop’s-eye view of Seattle’s undoing” from @tafrank.
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Mar 27, 2022
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Biden’s WH is famously leak-proof.
And Biden’s whole speech was so off–in timing and substance–that you have to worry if a less sealed-up WH would have produced it. Did it just sail through without anybody pointing out the problems?This WH is a discreet and insular place! https://t.co/Z7ZeJkSGUq
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Mar 27, 2022
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March 27, 2022 at 01:38PM
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On @bloggingheads Wright show we discussed the @nfergus article before discussing the @nfergus article was cool –but also before it was semi-confirmed. https://t.co/BaE7PW19Za
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Mar 27, 2022
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TWITTER GONE AMOK #2: Note vaguely (and plausibly) threatening tone … https://t.co/xez0UYvEIz
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Mar 27, 2022
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.@TWITTER GONE AMOK #1* https://t.co/ic3LXPNwFi
*–for today
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Mar 27, 2022
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Big problem with Biden WH is reaching for the cheapest available facile BS: (e.g. Inflation “transitory,” “Putin price hike”). Here they manage to hit on one of the least plausible of the available walkbacks. https://t.co/B9yvCmYmAv
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 27, 2022
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Just when Putin seemed to be narrowing his aims. it sure looks like Biden is snatching war from the jaws of an acceptable peace. … https://t.co/ASa4xTz6vz
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Mar 27, 2022
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* – Sorry, not “first inaugural.” Only inaugural.
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Mar 27, 2022
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It could have been worse https://t.co/N8zlEuQxfW https://t.co/ASa4xTz6vz
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Mar 27, 2022
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Even the Blob is appalled … https://t.co/7vglGkmQQY
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Mar 27, 2022
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If you thought Ferguson might be right in saying the Biden administration wants a prolonged war, you would have gotten a lot of evidence in today’s Biden speech, even without the ad-libbed last line. Biden seems to be making it that much harder to get a war-ending deal … https://t.co/5H1wjtEbkt
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Mar 27, 2022
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As Lloyd Bentsen would say, he’s no …
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Mar 27, 2022
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Another obvious explanation: Biden’s emulating JFK’s first inaugural (“long twilight struggle,” etc.) and Berlin speech. Except Biden’s seems more sweepingly adversarial, less nuanced. https://t.co/118K8dbDVl
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Mar 27, 2022
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March 26, 2022 at 10:05PM
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Re, long war against Putin: “we must commit now to be in this fight for the long haul. We must remain unified today and tomorrow and the day after. And for the years and decades to come. It will not be easy. There will be costs. But it is a price we have to pay …” etc.
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 27, 2022
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Strike the ad lib line. It’s still a speech that seems to make it completely clear that, even if Putin withdraws from Ukraine, Biden & NATO intend to wage a long war against “autocracy” in Russia. Why is that a good message to send right now? https://t.co/QprnhRLmL1
— Mickey Kaus (@kausmickey)
Mar 27, 2022
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March 26, 2022 at 09:52PM
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Gates gets to boss us around when he comes clean on Epstein …. https://t.co/XYhTUazoDM
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Mar 27, 2022
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March 26, 2022 at 08:58PM
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No one except Putin and 100 million Russians https://t.co/HAPCkHI0mH
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Mar 26, 2022
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March 26, 2022 at 05:17PM
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Wow https://t.co/5VcEF9906h
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Mar 26, 2022
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Mar 26, 2022
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