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    Alien Space Bats show Ukrainians living on September 12, 1992 a vision of what their country will look like 30 years later and also how it got there

    We promised support to the Republic of Vietnam. We proved our word to be mud. We promised support to the Afgans and Iraqis who took power after our interventions. We proved our word to still be mud. Korea was fought before the hippie movement when both major parties were on the same side...
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    Alien Space Bats show Ukrainians living on September 12, 1992 a vision of what their country will look like 30 years later and also how it got there

    Maybe if it were the first time, but it's not. It's just the last iteration in a cavalcade of shame going back to our betrayal of the Republic of Vietnam. They show the pattern of behavior hasn't changed.
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    Alien Space Bats show Ukrainians living on September 12, 1992 a vision of what their country will look like 30 years later and also how it got there

    The degree to which the senate represents public support is actually quite low. The House is the body that is supposed to reflect public support and it's deliberately not the one ratifying treaties and declaring war. You're also assuming that public support holds for decades. That's an...
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    Alien Space Bats show Ukrainians living on September 12, 1992 a vision of what their country will look like 30 years later and also how it got there

    A treaty isn't a declaration of war or use of force authorization. You need to get one of those past the cloture vote to actually move anything to support Ukraine. It takes 67 Senators to ratify a treaty, but you still need 60 to act on it when it's needed. Lose 8 senators over the decades...
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    Alien Space Bats show Ukrainians living on September 12, 1992 a vision of what their country will look like 30 years later and also how it got there

    The Senate isn't like the Supreme Court. It shifts alignment too on a scale of four to six years, typically starting the shift a bit ahead of presidential shifts. It's theoretical buffering effect mostly relies on the assumption by the framers that there wouldn't be only two significant...
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    Alien Space Bats show Ukrainians living on September 12, 1992 a vision of what their country will look like 30 years later and also how it got there

    Tripwire forces can be withdrawn at the discretion of the nation that sent them. That doesn't give Ukraine its nukes back.
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    Alien Space Bats show Ukrainians living on September 12, 1992 a vision of what their country will look like 30 years later and also how it got there

    You can't get concrete mutual defense assurances from the United States. Clinton believes in the end of history thesis and will let the capacity to guarantee anyone's defense atrophy. GWB considers Islamic fundamentalism the primary threat and will reorient away from eastern Europe. Obama is...
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