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

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    Aug 8

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

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    11 hours ago

    This is what alliance decoupling looks like 👇🏽

    Photos from S. Korea's presidential Blue House of today's high-level inter-Korean meeting in Pyongyang, with a cameo from Kim Jong Un himself.
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  3. 3 hours ago

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

    I’ve gotta say, if you were really concerned about protecting the country from an erratic Trump—rather than, say, trying to pre-salvage your post-administration reputation—you probably wouldn’t write something like this given its predictable consequences.
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  4. 3 hours ago

    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. 3 hours ago

    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. 3 hours ago

    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. 3 hours ago

    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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  8. 3 hours ago

    And they have, since day 1.

    As far as I can tell many people within the administration appear to be sending constant signals, anonymously, through reporters that the president is a genuine danger to the country, and that only they are standing between us and apocalypse.
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  9. 3 hours ago

    Administrative Procedure Act-Violation-Light

    So, it's treason-lite. Close enough.
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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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    5 hours ago

    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.

    “It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room. We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.”
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  13. 3 hours ago

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

    If the president's aides are really sabotaging him from the inside, it amounts to a soft coup, writes :
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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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  15. 3 hours ago

    I mean....

    TREASON?
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    5 hours ago

    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. 4 hours ago

    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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  18. 4 hours ago

    Gulp.

    TOMCON level elevated to 2. This is now a state of continuing political crisis. But don't think it's going to get resolved tomorrow: this could stay this way till 2020. And there will be multiple other crises because of it. Just pray none in foreign affairs.
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  19. 4 hours ago

    I really, really agree with this.

    Let's put it this way: declining to use the Constitution and instead using unconstitutional means to run the executive branch is, very much, a Constitutional crisis.
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  20. 4 hours ago

    "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. 4 hours ago

    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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