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I am so thankful that you are starting to write here - a blog will do. I have heard you on American Prestige and have been eager to hear more from you. I don't really care much for twitter and other social media sites but I like a damned good analysis, and you can certainly deliver that. Thanks!

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This is a great length story for Substack! I really think it works best when authors think about Substack as a blog.

I don’t remember if it was on the Commentary or one of the Dispatch podcast, but someone made the point that because of negative partisanship it was pretty likely that Ukraine was politicized. What the speaker also said was weird was the Democratic suspicion of Russian after Trump collusion stories made them more supportive of Ukraine than usual and that when fed into an environment of pro-Trump support in the populist part of the GOP which was already a little leery of foreign entanglements led to major parts of both parties flipping the positions they usually held since the Vietnam war.

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Don't kid yourself. McCarthy cut a deal with Biden to support more money for Ukraine in exchange for Team D support for the continuing resolution. McCarthy denies it, but he lies. Otherwise, Biden never would have gone along with the continuing resolution.

Team D is all in for more war, as is most of Team R, or at least enough to get through Congress.

Zelenskii will get his check, at least this time.

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