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Sifu Dai's avatar

This does seem to be an accurate assessment: "The threat of a general war (as opposed to the military ‘threat from Russia’) has now become very real. The point I am making as a ‘realist’ is that the threats are in this order and not in the order that we are supposed to accept – a) of a devastating accidental regional European war because somebody makes a mistake (it does not matter who), b) of internal destabilisation of national democracies and of Europe as a result of unnecessary confrontation to protect a counter-productive liberal expansionist values agenda, and c) of Russia being driven to general war by a Western-directed defeat in Ukraine."

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Lal9's avatar

I just finished a long comment and it erased itself before my eyes... this happens nearly every time I comment at length on Substack and other places too. Nuts!! You wrote a great article and I wrote a good rant in response.

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Tim Pendry's avatar

Ranting here is approved of. My suggestion is that you copy your text in advance before publishing and try again with a paste later.

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