Dave Lundeen

With which Republican votes will you accomplish this?

Vibes based regime change.

It’s like that Committee when run by Republicans only knows how to investigate Clintons.

He’s such a piece of shit.

The only way for a nuclear armed power to respond to an overwhelming conventional attack is with nuclear weapons. This is literally why the Cold War was cold. Can you please attempt to understand the elementary aspects of what you are talking about ?

Because Article 5 would obligate all of NATO to directly fight Russia when it attacks Ukraine. Do you know . . . anything about the North Atlantic Treaty?

You are guaranteeing a nuclear war if you do that. Grow up.

Where have they said they will?

That’s strategic wishcasting as much as the idea that Ukraine will be let into NATO while Russian troops are on its territory.

Wow that sounds like a lot of talk. You think ICBM armed powers are going to get into a conventional weapons war because one of them used a battlefield nuke on a non nuclear power? I don’t, and neither does anyone at the Kremlin or U.S. Pentagon.

I think Biden was also a fighter but I don’t think it’s why he won in 2020.

They are, and even worse are the delusional and mendacious.

People who liked everything about Xitter except for the right wing. Being An Asshole Online, but Left is like their whole identity.

Would be great if there would be a master list of Bouie blocks so we can all avoid.

Also a misreading (or a nonreading). Lots of victories over the Ezra Klein of the imagination on this site.

I’m aware.

See also Russia.

I really have no patience for Bluesky posturing about engaging with a position the poster claims an interlocutor holds as opposed to an actual one. It’s obnoxious and exhausting.

Nah, they’re pretty clear to anyone who does the reading.

Think that’s a misreading of Klein.

And yes I think it’s an argument that it was bad for post Soviet Ukraine to give up *strategic* nuclear weapons, but there were certainly other concerns at the time of the breakup of the SU.

Is it widespread though was my question. It doesn’t seem so! America is a highly educated populace. I don’t think you can with a straight face tell me that a service oriented economy doesn’t know how to read well enough. Thinking hard I will grant you is a problem, but not I think reading.

And specifically there is no obvious countermove to a tactical nuke if one doesn’t have one. Overwhelming conventional attack? Okay. It seems pretty clear that neither Russia nor Ukraine can reach each other’s capitals that way.

It’s an argument against proliferation and the idea that MAD is a solve for everything.

For one thing NCLB was not 40 years ago. Obviously teaching only to the test is a problem, but I think claims of widespread functional illiteracy and ignorance are maybe a bit overstated.

MAD applies to strategic nuclear weapons. Part of the worry is the growing rise in tactical nuclear arsenals, particularly on the Russian side. If the Russians used a battlefield nuke against Ukraine, would the destruction be assured?

This seems like a strange claim. Can you substantiate it?

Senate candidate with Nazi tattoo Graham Platner: it is vitally important that we kill the filibuster.

I mean sure. But this ain’t gonna happen.

I don’t know why we would want to lend legitimacy to these worthless operations by regulating them. Let them remain inaccurate fraud machines until people stop playing.