Empire redux.
It doesn’t take a Putin apologist to suggest that the Russian government has a more than defensible reason to be suspicious of the NATO expansion that has taken place over the past three decades.
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The politics of out.
I have no idea of what our military’s mission is in Syria. As always, we are pondering policy stacked on top of bad policy decades in the making.
Inside December (2018).
We’re getting into that time of year when larger mammals hibernate. That’s not how we roll, of course, but we do get a little more sedentary (if that can be imagined) as the winter months wear on.
Some dare.
This much I know: Trump was essentially wasting our time meeting with the Russian president. That isn’t treason so much as Trump being the usual incompetent boob.
In his image.
Within the confines of their fondest fevered dreams, Putin and his allies may think the United States would be easier to deal with if our form of government was more like theirs – namely, a relatively bald-faced oligopoly.
Long division.
There’s a natural tendency on both the left and the right to turn conflicts like Syria into a kind of zero-sum game between bad players and good players. The truth, as always, is more complicated.
Down to them.
The president does not just act for him or herself – s/he has a responsibility to all of us in everything s/he does. This president doesn’t get that.
Nuclear option.
I count myself among the number who simply oppose Gorsuch because he was nominated by Trump. It they blow up the filibuster, fine. If when you use it you lose it, then it doesn’t really exist anyway.
Next up.
When you pursue policies that undermine the stability of an entire region, you shouldn’t be surprised when the whole place starts caving in.
Twilight of empire.
I imagine there are countries who have sufficient moral standing to take issue with Russia’s bombing in Syria. The United States is not one of them.