Tim Miller

Like we're taking out some troops, but then we end up just taking out all troops out of Germany.

And it's like, okay, well...

it's a lot longer flight from wherever, Greenland or the U.S., over to the Middle East than it is from Germany.

And if there was actually a situation where we had real acute security threats for our troops in the region, allies, anyone else, it matters in that way.

And Trump is not interested or capable of articulating that for sure, but I think understanding it is probably...

David Ignatius over the weekend, I saw this, it just kind of caught my eye.

said that he feels like because of the strength of Ukraine and the way that the amount of resilience that Ukraine has showed, you wrote about this a little bit in Morning Shots this morning too, that Putin, I'm sorry, maybe overstated to say he's in a corner, but that he has fewer strategic moves than maybe he might have, or might have looked like he had when Trump first came back into power.

And that one thing that he might do is,

is strike one of the Baltic states, right, to just sort of test NATO even further.

And he might do that while Trump is in power just to show, you know, kind of that really that NATO is officially dead because, you know, it's presuming that Trump would not come to the defense of Estonia or whatever.

Who knows?

I mean, David Ignatius doesn't have like any inside sources or crystal ball, but I did, I thought it was an interesting observation, particularly in context of the move in Germany.

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