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Mark Monaghan's avatar

Love your strategic analysis, will be extremely interesting how things shape up over coming weeks and months. Maduro and his wife could be sitting on a beach in Dubai this morning. I imagine other leaders who feel threatened by President Trump will seriously consider early retirement. And maybe a free Cuba, wow!

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Belling the Cat's avatar

Great outline on such short notice. This administration's OpSec when it counts is impressive.

"The first thing to note is that when the recent US defense review talked about the Monroe doctrine they weren’t kidding."

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The Scuttlebutt's avatar

Concur with your analysis, and; the US law states that you can't be an officer of the nation in two different branches, hence, if you're a senator and recalled to active duty, your state gets to hold a special election or appoint someone by the governor, depending on the state's constitution.

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Jolie's avatar

Do you think this is big enough that they need Senators on active duty? Wouldn't a couple extra K 9s be more useful anyway?

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The Scuttlebutt's avatar

compared to the officer in question, a seaman duce would be more useful. But as a way to get him back in uniform for courts-martial? Hey, I'll take it.

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Kitsune, Maskless Crusader.'s avatar

WOW! Another great analytical piece, which is not at all surprising given the author. What is surprising, to me any way, is how soon after the fact you were able to put all this together. Yours is only the fourth mention I have seen on this action and by far the most compelling. Well done. I think you have missed your calling. Some government somewhere would really benefit from your insight, if they cared to, that is.

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Jim in Alaska's avatar

The supposed Chinese curse; Interesting Times.

Me? Not faulting such, mind you,I rather like interesting and dislike boring.

For decades I've felt we're witnessing the slow, creaking, boring fall of civilization; high trust societies gradually candle wax melting into low trust, democracies, including mine, becoming banana republics, always full shelves in the groceries now interspersed with, yes we have no bologna, empty shelves, slow decay, creeping totalitarianism.

Now, real reporting for Somalian Minnesota, a beautiful moonlit night in Venezuela, times, they just might be ah changing.

In this age of mass psychosis one can't be sure how things will go; will a Belisarius hold off the wolves for a while longer or will a Chang Kai-sheck be pushed off to an island they, nipping at his heels?

None the less, I am delighted to say; very, very interesting times!

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Jolie's avatar

I doubt there will be a need to call senators to active duty. Your point about Venezuelans in the US while we are at war with Venezuela is awesome and I hope DHS uses it.

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BehaviorForecastsProbablyHard's avatar

Yeah, I agree that you did a good write up, but I am very late to say so.

Future could be boring, it could be interesting. This was very early in January, so could end up overshadowed by something else.

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