Thread by @TrentTelenko

This is a Ukrainian talking about not believing Ukraine would be invaded by Putin again

Putin's intentional nerve gas poisoning of Sergei & Yulia Skripal plus Charlie Rowley & Dawn Sturgess as innocent bystanders inside nuclear armed Great Britain convinced me it was certain.
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https://twitter.com/AseyevStanislav/status/1500777112478928901

It meant that Putin was on the same level of irrational as Kim Jung Un.

It is this thing I will not forgive Russian analysts, German 'Ostpolitik' foreign policy thinkers and the entire Western Arms Control community.

There is no basis for negotiation with such a creature.
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Yet they all made careers by pretending Putin wasn't the man who invaded Ukraine...

...three times.

Putin wasn't the man who invaded Georgia.

Putin wasn't the man who invaded Chechnya
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Nuclear arms control in the age of Putin is as obsolete as a horse buggy whip maker (outside Amish country) in the age of the Model T Ford

The irrational nature of Putin demands proliferation of ballistic, hypersonic & cruise missile defenses, not nuclear arms control.
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And pushing a whole lot of American domestic oil & gas production to pay for those defenses.

I expect all the usual suspects to fight that kind of policy change because their income streams require it.

Such is the nature of iron rice bowls.

Did I mention I'm cynical?
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