A RAUKUS in the Pacific: An excellent piece by the friendliest military blogger in the Nordics, @CorporalFrisk, for @cosmo_globalist. He's a bit easier on AUS-US than I am. claireberlinski.substack.com/p/a-raukus-in-…
I really see no reason--nothing to be gained, and no excuse--for having insulted France so profoundly. They were entitled to a warning, and entitled to hear it from AUS and US, rather than finding out in Politico.
In international relations as in love, if you're going to dump someone, you should do them the courtesy of telling them to their face. Letting them hear it on the grapevine is just needlessly humiliating.
However, the correlative principle is this: In international relations as in love, if you're dumped, hold your head high. Do not break down in public. Pretend ending it was *your* idea.
You can't salvage the relationship, but you can salvage your dignity.
You can't salvage the relationship, but you can salvage your dignity.
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