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Enemies of the state.
Remotely related to this thread. I am by no means a hawk, and I propose what follows with caution, but the realities on the ground in Ukraine with respect to the very poorly disguised Russian invasion would indicate that the US needs to raise the DEFCON level. That is a message that Putin will understand even more than the slow, perhaps feckless choke-hold of sanctions. Putin has mentioned that Russia is a nuclear power. His implied threat is ignored only by the foolish. It is time to raise the DEFCON level.