By that logic another serious question would be "If China attacked Canada should USA retaliate?" That's not, in fact, a serious question.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @fardarter and
Because we have enough real problems to discuss without inventing virtually impossible hypotheticals. Life is not, ultimately, debate club.
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Replying to @ImranKhanfromN1 @Noahpinion and
Jeet Heer Retweeted Jeet Heer
What does "nontrivial" mean? I've been trying to get answers. I brought up Canadian case because Noah & others moved from beyond specific (wildly unlikely) scenario to principle about standing with treaty allies.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1469728958975463427 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet @ImranKhanfromN1 and
The Canadian case seems fine to me, it's a valid question if you're trying to probe the limits of someone's rhetorical commitment to pacifism.
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Replying to @Noahpinion @ImranKhanfromN1 and
Are we discussing pacifism or whether USA policy (and debates about policy) should be grounded in real threats as against wildly hypothetical scenarios?
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Replying to @HeerJeet @Noahpinion and
Perhaps this is proxy for Taiwan, Ukraine?
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Replying to @fardarter @Noahpinion and
Right, but why not debate those rather than invent scenarios?
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Replying to @HeerJeet @fardarter and
Because we don't have a treaty with either of those, so it's not as extreme a challenge to professed absolute pacifism?
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??? Professed pacifists are few in number and have close to zero impact on the foreign policy of the United States (the world's largest empire, which has literally killed millions in my lifetime).
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