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https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1687269309934915584Some titles - governor, ambassador, certain military ranks, and yes, "professor" - are lifetime titles. "President" is not; a president is the "presiding officer" while he presides, which is why Senate Presidents are "mr/madam president" only while they hold the gavel. /2
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1679258082302459904This leaves Russian forces not knowing what to do even if they *could* win on the ground in various areas (which they're not.) As we teach at US war colleges: operational victories do not automatically translate to strategic success, esp if you have no idea what your goals are./2
https://twitter.com/jhog667/status/1674589016354861056When I would travel in the old USSR, or even in the new Russia, if you ran into anyone from the United States, it was like family.
https://twitter.com/Dougtwit23/status/1667015956307267586Trump has been up to his eyeballs in crimey stuff since he was a young man. He's seen people do time. He's been around the mob. He is not deterrable; he is a sociopath and he doesn't see himself as subject to the rules by which others live. So, Nixon's pardon means nothing. /2
https://twitter.com/BillKristol/status/1654864555078565888Not so long ago, America had one "president as a time" and only the holder of the title used it, as is proper for a "presiding" officer. It's why the Senate president is only president on the podium. Calling all former presidents "president" is a mistake. /2
https://twitter.com/DonlonVincent/status/1646233775808839725The reason this is a problem is that when laypeople say "I want to check your credentials as an expert," often they have no idea what they're looking at.
https://twitter.com/NC_Renic/status/1639656839024455683I mostly avoided the journals after a few bad experiences and went the book route, but two things I know (as a regular peer reviewer back in the day): There are too many articles because of the pressure to publish, and reviewers tend to be, shall we say, a tad louche. /2