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#402 - The Air Force OG, the Tennessee "Three," and a French Protest Spree

The Fifth Column

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The Media Dynamics of Conflicts

I think Ukraine is, you know, it's high in the popular imagination. It's high in money that we've spent. Sympathy for one side being the victim in this case and a bunch of other stuff. We're waning sympathy to be sure but still kind of a basic starting point of sympathy. There appears to be no trigger there that people seem to be almost eager that there should be some existing. I don't think there is. You can make an argument that it's inherently escalatory to give that much in aid and weapons and stuff. That's fine. But I don't Think 14 people on the ground constitute.

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