Mr. Dans is a co-founder and portfolio manager at Amberwave Partners, an investment manager. He served as counselor to the U.S. Treasury undersecretary for international affairs (2020-21) and as a Commissioner of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission (2021).
Step 1: Buy 100% Lockheed Martin stock.
Step 2: Incite war with Russia.
Step 3: PROFIT!!!!
Step 4: Nuclear annihilation.
You mean a conventional attack? It would be met with overwhelming conventional force and the invading Chinese forces would be destroyed. Russia's problem is that the same scenario for them would end even worse, since they are so weak in conventional terms that even a small regional power like Turkey could destroy them, and the US could do so without even breaking a sweat. So their choice is simple: give up the island, or get turned into glass?
Wrangel Island is well along the Russian coastline from the US-Russia maritime border - 140 km from the Russian mainland, and 500 kilometers from Alaska. The suggestion that the United States reclaim a scientific outpost from a hundred years ago is stupid.
It's what happens when your entire ideology is "let's try something new." You work your way towards old ideas rather quickly as there's not that much materially different worth trying.
Step 1: Buy 100% Lockheed Martin stock.
Step 2: Incite war with Russia.
Step 3: PROFIT!!!!
Step 4: Nuclear annihilation.
Imagine believing that Russia is gonna turn itself into a glass crater for Wrangel Island.
What would happen if China mounted a successful attack on Hawai?
You mean a conventional attack? It would be met with overwhelming conventional force and the invading Chinese forces would be destroyed. Russia's problem is that the same scenario for them would end even worse, since they are so weak in conventional terms that even a small regional power like Turkey could destroy them, and the US could do so without even breaking a sweat. So their choice is simple: give up the island, or get turned into glass?
Wrangel Island is well along the Russian coastline from the US-Russia maritime border - 140 km from the Russian mainland, and 500 kilometers from Alaska. The suggestion that the United States reclaim a scientific outpost from a hundred years ago is stupid.
So, it's basically America's "Las Malvinas"
Progressives are returning to old-style Jingoism at this point.
It's what happens when your entire ideology is "let's try something new." You work your way towards old ideas rather quickly as there's not that much materially different worth trying.