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If Putin hitches his wagon to Xi, he will find out soon enough that Xi's interest is purely transactional. Xi doesn't care about Putin or Russia, only what China can suck out of it on its own way to greater empire.

Hard not to conclude Tony Clark has been worse than a disaster.

I've never been interested enough to pursue the history myself, or verify any of these claims, but at least in the view of my family, the area around Yerevon, which is where the current nation of Armenia is, following from the Russian designation of its Soviet Republic, was not really that much the center of the Armenian culture of the Ottoman empire, which my family would have told you had been in Anatolia and Mediterranean Turkey. As far as my family saw it, those up in the Caucusus were the equivalent of Armenian Hillbillies....

Romad and Buddha are the history mavens, most I can say I know about WW1 is that there was a big deal made about having to defend freedom of navigation after a U-Boat torpedoed the Lusitania. Of course the Germans claimed Cunnard was ferrying war material. Just read a bit on the Zimmerman telegram - appears to have also have been a contributor. Of course it's a fool's errand trying to separate individual bits of motivation out from the totality of a decision like that. BTW -the family story is that Grandfather, who had enlisted because it was a chance to strike a blow against the Ottomans, was on a ship on the way over on 11/11/18, and thus got to step foot back in Europe only to get right back on the boat to the new world.

Not to worry, Cade has already missed three times more shots than Killian.

well, you would think there is no way for that not to happen, just like you'd think there was no way you ever see an inning start with a man on 2nd.....

It's not a technicality in that Ataturk founded Turkey on the the rejection of traditional quasi-religious Ottoman Sultanate/Caliphate and the early forms of Muslim pan nationalism that fed the religious pogroms. A lot has changed in Turkey on that point in recent years, and not for the better, but that is also part of the complexity. Of course the Turks and the Armenians still hate each other and that is as old as Islam itself.

It certainly complicated by what breed of 'state' S. Vietnam was, but we certainly came to their aid in the context of the North trying to conquer them (or France's depending on how you take the history) MB notes Kuwait. We took a long time getting to it, but we did enter WWI without being attacked directly - Lusitania not withstanding. WWII would not count as we sat until we were attacked ourselves. There were a lot of Americans flying in SE Asia before Pearl Harbor, but it wasn't official.

but that is also part of the complexity, because 'Turkey' also didn't exist when the genocide occurred.

Ding DIng!

Yellow shirt guy maybe familiar - almost Burton Cummings but he should have a 'stache, and I don't pics of the Guess Who with 6 guys.

So where was this biodome hidden that held Putin, the US GOP, and who knows who else in isolation from the real world for the last 80 yrs?

right - we'll just get bad teams in the playoffs, which given the large random input factors in a baseball game will ensure that bad teams will end up winning the World Series. But that happens now anyway - it will just be a difference in degree more than kind.

which depend on the Ukrainians maintaining some kind of corridor or protected airfields for resupply. That's what could be hardest. It's not like they'll have the jungle of the Ho Chi Minh trail to hide in. The other criticality is if they stay together long enough to receive Stingers. The Russian helo air superiority goes down the drain if the west can(will) supply man held ground to air in numbers.

yeah - there is a certain threshold where suddenly they can't match up at all despite looking decent against some midlevel teams on occasion.

I'd have guessed Mountain but I don't think they were ever 6.

That story sounds like USDOD all over. Should be true even if it isn’t. ( which I’m not arguing)

The Germans are, as always, the key. It seems like in the last hundred years they can’t find the Goldilocks stance toward the rest of the world between being crazy bellicose and gazing at their navels while their house is being ransacked. Scholz just last week said Germany’s past still precludes it increasing its defense posture. Well maybe its future demands it. and the thing is, it’s not like their position doesn’t echo through the rest of the EU. Nobody wants to put themselves at an economic disadvantage by committing more to defense than Germany will.

It's true. And it is also only barely relevant to his job performance. Americans spend so much time watching actors that they have forgotten that what you do is more important than your elocution. In my book, only Clinton and Obama have been particularly gifted at a podium going all the way back to JFK. Even Reagan really wasn't all that great either when speaking off the cuff. The other thing is that it's time for a President to demand adulthood from the press. No shouting, one question - stated in 15 second or less with no attached essay. Make those the rules and stick to them.

personally, I don't care if Soto's income potential is effectively capped closer to $30M/yr than $40M/yr. If more salary money has to go into the pot, it does at least needs to go the young players like Soto who are producing, not the Cabreras and Pujols

plus they'd be completely derelict if they didn't have his phones tapped.

yup. In for a dime, in for a dollar. Where do the R's have left to go?

truth is the 1st casualty in war, but that would be a whopper of a lie to tell!

I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a Hamburger today!

less the 'gotcha' aspect than the silliness we have gotten to in the US about speaking inconvenient truths out loud.