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You're probably correct. Strategically. But Soviet military doctrine was to use tactical nukes to knock out a path through the Fulda gap. I am not suggesting we cave in due to Putin's or Lavrov's threats. But they can't be ignored completely. Let's not have to impose article 5. To deter leg...

750,000 deaths over letting the south go an slavery (according to most historians) last at most another 20 years.....that's like 15 million in a current Civil War. He was both the most most brilliant and evil person in our history and it's hard to come to grips with it still today. Lincoln easi...

Like you I think the risk of a nuclear escalation to be a high risk rn. I do not control American foreign policy and the only possibility of change is minute. If the GOP retakes the House as appears likely, what would change? Nothing, those 50 or so principled house members might increase to 75 or e...

I enjoy 90% of what you say as a libertarian. But Kissenger isn't half the war criminal you suggest. He's a realist and he's on your side right now. It may be by chance, it probably is, but I think you are missing my point. During the Cold War we negotiated, openly or not through back channels. ...

I hope they do well too but they are hardly the aggrieved party. I would have expected the US to invade Mexico had similar issues been present. And we have done so with Canada and Mexico several times each. If Russia influenced Canada or Mexico half as we do with the Ukraine we'd be back in vera...

I've checked a couple of the long term models. August and September appear perhaps....perhaps to return to normal. Meaning mid 90s instead of low to mid 100s. For those of us up here in NW LA at least. My grandfather, who was a pilot in WWII and an avid weather watcher always said expect the first n...

Farage almost singlehandedly grew the movement to get the UK out of the EU. And he did so with elegant speech and brute force. Farage was what I had hoped Trump could have been. He's one of the good guys and I guess I'll pull for Truss. Labour isn't Tony Blair's neocon Bill Clinton party. It...

Thank. I've been so worried about other things I haven't had a chance to follow British politics recently. I grew up watching prime Minister's questions each Sunday night on Cspan. I have watched each general election since 1991 or whenever major's first was plus the euro referendum live. It's ...

No they aren't. Indians and Pakistanis were but not the latest generation by and large. Just because the British touched over half the world doesn't mean automatic immigration rights ...

To be anyone or anything unless a Treen geek or some delegate to the national convention, until Roemer's era and really 1994, you were a Southern Democrat. Louisiana has undergone little major change in a generation. More blacks signed up, more whites counter by voting Rep despite registration. If t...