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The Blue Sky of Foreign Policy
"We have a bunch of incompetent buffoons running this and that changes my equation a little bit," he says. "I believe in strength to stop your enemies and I believe in deterrence and all those things." But giving money to Ukraine for weapons has zero inflationary effect if you look at the counterfactual, which is Russia would take them over with an imperialistic mindset. He's always played war games that are offensive in nature; they're never defensive. And now they're on the borders of Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, all NATO countries.