Toby Harshaw
@tobinharshaw
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"A model of humour and cordiality" - Boris Johnson https://t.co/ffUHzbw4PJ @opinion Views mine; if I want yours I'll give them to you @harshwords.bsky.social
New York NY
Joined June 2009
MAGA is entirely different than Movement Conservatism, except for all the ways MAGA is consistent with Movement Conservatism. My latest:
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For some background on this:
I stumbled on this old Firing Line with William F. Buckley from 1975 with then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Whatever you think of Kissinger, or Buckley for that matter, this level of sophisticated policy discussion is sorely missing today.
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What would Colin Powell say about Trump's Pentagon DEI purge? That fear, chaos and anger are no way to run a military. Admiral @stavridisj remembers his mentor via @opinion.
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It's almost like POTUS is more concerned with quick wins than long-term disasters.
Ru doesn’t want Ukraine in NATO so it can keep invading it. Keeping Ukraine out of NATO is the opposite of solving the problem, it prolongs it by inviting another Russian invasion.
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Former NATO supreme commander thinks of all the ways Trump may harm Ukraine to appease Putin, shutting off the flow of intel is the dangerous
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Lt. Calley would be proud: We have to destroy the planet to save the planet.
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Unfortunately, when it comes to Ukraine, that is not the relevant poll, this is:
The idea of locking Ukraine out of peace talks is unlikely to be a popular one in the U.S. Russia/Putin are VERY unpopular (favorable rating under 10%). To put in perspective, about as many think we faked the moon landing or that the Earth is flat as like Russia or Putin.
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Today’s newsletter is about the Corn Laws. Also tariffs, inflation, Mt McKinley and Abe Simpson. But mostly the Corn Laws
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I feel like this piece took almost as long to write as it did Iraq to become a "real place." So please read it. All of it. There is a surprise treat at the end. Maybe. via @opinion.
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RT @stavridisj: This is no way for a government official or political candidate to conduct themselves on the sacred ground of Section 60 at….
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Man, he's 90 and still the best politician in America. (Silver to Jerry.) Still, it's legit to wonder why she apparently never mentions him in her autobiography, and her ungrateful line: "His career is over; I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years.”.
Must read: Willie Brown responding to queries.
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I have no clue on the criminal charges, but Grameen was always a fraud and good reporting showed it at the time. As usual, the Nobel committee was oblivious. In their defense, at least he's not a war criminal like, say, Abiy Ahmed.
Muhammad Yunus is a Nobel laureate, the father of microfinance and a friend to the world’s most powerful. Now, he faces a potential life sentence in a Bangladesh prison. Here's how the world’s “banker to the poor” came under scrutiny
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But he has a valid point that Mayor Pete has never given birth.
JD Vance says women who haven’t given birth like Kamala Harris are “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” and have “no direct stake” in America.
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RT @stavridisj: The British intelligence has consistently been spot on in their assessments. These numbers are simply shocking and overtime….
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This, along with "we must turn to China" are both just code for abandoning Ukraine totally.
"This is completely irresponsible. Ukraine should not join NATO, and to invite them during a war is to invite our nation into war. Do you want American ground troops in Ukraine? If not, we must push back against the idea that UKR should join NATO." (2024)
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Today's newsletter was originally about a bunch of guys not named Trump. It is still about a bunch of guys not named Trump.
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The US military has since the "second offset" of the 1970s favored quality over quantity, and that should quell some of the panic over ship numbers, hypersonics, nukes, etc. then again, as @stavridisj likes to say, "quantity has a quality all its own".
This has become beyond unacceptable, but because it’s a slow moving crisis that won’t prove disastrous unless there is a (low probability) conflict, we continue to just largely talk…. We need a massive shipbuilding industrial base investment backed with a clear shipbuilding.
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