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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 24

      Jeet Heer Retweeted The Atlantic

      Supporting an insurgency inside Ukraine is incredibly risky. There are so many ways it could go wrong.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1496888800777224200 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      The AtlanticVerified account @TheAtlantic
      Joe Biden has explicitly ruled out sending troops to Ukraine, but he plans to arm an insurgency. If Putin is bent on provoking NATO into a wider war, will Biden join it? The answers to such questions will define his presidency, @FranklinFoer writes. http://on.theatln.tc/Z2JmePA 
      34 replies 20 retweets 181 likes
    2. Leo Casey‏ @LeoECasey Feb 25
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      And your alternative is? Just acquiesce to Putin’s invasion?

      1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
    3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 25
      Replying to @LeoECasey

      It seems insane to me that the Western powers are foreswearing most of the effective economic leverage they have but are willing to contemplate turning Ukraine into a new Afghanistan. Shows a low regard for Ukrainian lives.

      1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
    4. Leo Casey‏ @LeoECasey Feb 25
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      There is a compelling case for greater sanctions, especially ones that go after the off-shore funds where the money of the oligarchy is kept. But there will be an insurgency — invasion, and not Biden, guaranteed that — and the only question is whether it is supported.

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    5. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 25
      Replying to @LeoECasey

      Fact that sanctions with bite are already off the table while they're talk of supporting an insurgency says Western economic elite wants to not make any sacrifice themselves but will happily let Ukraine become a charnel house. What's the logic of supporting that?

      1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes
    6. Leo Casey‏ @LeoECasey Feb 25
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      The ultimate logic of that position is to leave the Ukrainians alone and defenseless. If you agree that NATO troops should not be sent into Ukraine, then it is our responsibility to advocate maximum support to resistance, full sanctions and aid to insurgency.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 25
      Replying to @LeoECasey

      Since West has already made clear it is not doing full sanctions (all parties, including USA, insist on carve outs), what we're left with is policy that will mean much more killing (including of civilians) with no clear endgame.

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        2. Leo Casey‏ @LeoECasey Feb 25
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Your premise (“since the West…”) accepts defeat before fight on that front has begun. Since the strategy has been to ratchet up the sanctions, step by step, we should be arguing to continue in that escalation, not just throwing up our hands because it didn’t all happen at once.

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 25
          Replying to @LeoECasey

          To say strategy is to ratchet up sanctions is to ignore that lots of interested parties are already rejecting the most effective sanctions. To preclude these sanctions while preparing grounds for military escalation seems insane and immoral.

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