I've seen it discussed elsewhere that this probably isn't archive.is/archive.ph/archive.today's doing, there's an active effort to bring them down, likely over their popular role as a paywall bypass.
I fail to see how that forces the administration to "go along with it or risk looking incompetent". After all, anyone who would go along with that plan looks incompetent regardless of any leaks. Honestly, replying to such a leak with "this is an attempt by the Russians to force their preferred plan down everyone's throat" Strikes me as a much much more competent look.
This administration cares about looking incompetent?
If trump’s our Chamberlain who’s going to step up and be Churchill?
Trump isn’t even Chamberlain. Chamberlain was in no position to do much about Czechoslovakia. Poland and Hungary were keen on getting in on grabbing territory and the French were politically divided and were in no position for yet another war while at home in the UK the general populace were in dread of another war. Chamberlain knew what Hitler and the NAZIs were, so when he came back to the UK, he accelerated the country’s rearmament in expectation of what was to come. When Churchill took over as PM Chamberlain was a valued member of his war cabinet.
I think a 3 point plan would be best:
I'd like to have something in there about the repatriation of kidnapped children and a few other things...
That and punishment of the "children's czar" and any regional governor that facilitated the illegal trafficking of Ukrainian children into that region.
That last comment looks like it's coming from a Russian who, like many Russians do, view the collective west as a single, homogeneous entity, or possibly European countries as obedient vassal states of the US. Trump might be desperate for a peace deal, but painting European leaders as trying to force an unfavorable deal on Ukraine is objectively false (Orban et al excepted, as usual).
Escalation management, old models and preconceptions of the efficacy and robustness of the Russian military and nuclear blackmail.
And don't forget a certain impeached president who single-handedly botched arming Ukraine even after all the appropriations had passed the legislative gauntlet of our corrupt, sleazy, western democracy because he wanted personal favors......
So, you’re thinking a type of normalcy bias—this time with the experts—even in the face of data that challenged long-held assumptions?
Maddening normalcy bias. That's a powerful motivator not to notice the world changing around you.
My point was that Britain was in no position to do much about NAZI aggression towards Czechoslovakia in 1938, not that the German invasion wasn’t wrong. And yes, the NAZIs did profit from it in their invasion.
You're going to have to be more (a lot more) specific about which Republican you're referring to.
