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#392 "Tanks for Victory, Oscars So Boring, and Ben Dreyfuss Is Here to Offend You"

The Fifth Column

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Do You Want to Invade a Sovereign Country?

I think that you have to have a moral high ground there. If there's military installations that you can take out, then you should. And if they are in places where there's going to be the horrible or welling term collateral damage, it's something that you must accept because that's part of war. I found myself in the uncomfortable position, which actually caused me to question my priors a few days ago and agree largely with Twitter thread from David who tends to be interventionist side. He had a point about talking about the way that conflicts with Russia in its near abroad have ended from 1991 onward. It's just yeah. How do these things end? Do they end in the

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