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@marcambinder

Adjunct professor ; author of “The Brink,” on the near-nuclear war of 1983. National security, meditation & the NY . 📲 ambinder@usc.edu

Los Angeles
Joined January 2008
Born on August 08

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    Aug 8

    Tinkerers. Sailors. Soldiers. Spies. And tactical nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert.

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  2. Retweeted
    11 hours ago

    This is what alliance decoupling looks like 👇🏽

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  3. Putting morality and ethics completely aside, the most effective way to do this is NOT TO TELL ANYONE YOU’RE DOING THIS.

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  4. At the same time — how complicit are the reporters who hear senior administration officials say this everyday and grant them anonymity to do so? I have mixed feelings about this one but I think it’s a legitimate question.

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  5. I think, 22 months into ’s presidency, we’ve finally found the line between disrespecting the President and disrespecting the institution of the presidency.

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  6. Imagine if this same official had walked into the Oval today, asked POTUS to resign, then resigned, then announced publicly his or her resignation and explained why.

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  7. Not finding much sympathy for the anonymous evasive resistance hero among even those elites who are most fearful about President Trump.

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  9. Administrative Procedure Act-Violation-Light

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    5 hours ago

    4. What we now have is a two-tier government: Trump tweeting and ranting & his staff executing separate policy. This undermines democratic legitimacy & ability of other countries to trust USA as much as actually executing Trump's policies would.

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    5 hours ago

    3. The virtue of 25th amendment solution is that it keeps everything in the open: unfit president is evaluated, cabinet & congress take responsibility. Everyone can be judged by their public actions. That's vastly superior to a secret coup.

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    Truthfully, it's no comfort at all, because it relies on a pact among senior staff to cover the President's amorality - and possible incapacity - and govern by default while keeping the reality from reaching the American people. This is a nightmare.

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  13. Treason is never really light and coups aren’t very soft.

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    7 hours ago

    On the one hand, it made my day to be validated by ⁦⁩. On the other hand, it’s legitimately terrifying how our nuclear launch procedures work.

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    New satellite images show continuing modernization of second SS-27 Mod 2 (RS-24, Yars) ICBM regiment at Kozelsk in western Russia. Remember: this is a modernization, not a *buildup*.

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  17. Has a single person who has worked in the administration at a senior level called for the President to step down? To his face, or otherwise? If the crisis is at the level we assume/read about, why the hell not?

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  20. "If you order your SecDef to kill someone in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack, and he ignores your order, do you think he has acted illegally or outside the chain of command? Or is he disregarding an illegal order?"

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  21. Even this: "Do you think it was appropriate for President Trump's senior staff to openly or covertly work to undermine his authority? Was the level of civic emergency sufficient to justify quasi/para/illegal or unethical action by political appointees?"

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