James Fallows nails it.
“No sane American leader would ever think: Let’s offend or attack an ally, to get something we already have, and take on extra burdens we don’t want.
But that is what our Mad King and his toadies are proposing. No person who talks about this as a “reasonable” possibility should be listened to on any other topic.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/fallows/p/in-the-time-of-the-mad-king?r=ad0yf&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
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