Tom Nichols

I mean, right. With that, by unanimous consent, I'd like to revise and extend my remarks. You know, Sacks is just, I mean, Sacks and Vance, and they're all part of this small circle of plutocrats who have convinced themselves that they are deep thinkers, that they are, you know, deep thinkers.

geopolitical thinkers when in fact they are you know exactly like you know again the kid in your dorm at 2 a.m who says you know i i think or cliff claven at the end of the bar well uh let me uh let me explain to you how uh ukraine works here diane that's a good cliff claven Thank you. Well, you know, I'm from the area. It was such a dumb analogy.

geopolitical thinkers when in fact they are you know exactly like you know again the kid in your dorm at 2 a.m who says you know i i think or cliff claven at the end of the bar well uh let me uh let me explain to you how uh ukraine works here diane that's a good cliff claven Thank you. Well, you know, I'm from the area. It was such a dumb analogy.

geopolitical thinkers when in fact they are you know exactly like you know again the kid in your dorm at 2 a.m who says you know i i think or cliff claven at the end of the bar well uh let me uh let me explain to you how uh ukraine works here diane that's a good cliff claven Thank you. Well, you know, I'm from the area. It was such a dumb analogy.

For one thing, thousands of Americans were fighting and dying in Korea. Hello. My snarkiness and sarcasm fail me. So let me go into a more serious professor mode.

For one thing, thousands of Americans were fighting and dying in Korea. Hello. My snarkiness and sarcasm fail me. So let me go into a more serious professor mode.

For one thing, thousands of Americans were fighting and dying in Korea. Hello. My snarkiness and sarcasm fail me. So let me go into a more serious professor mode.

Let's count all the ways in which David Sachs was wrong. For one thing, Stalin and Mao cooked up this war.

Let's count all the ways in which David Sachs was wrong. For one thing, Stalin and Mao cooked up this war.

Let's count all the ways in which David Sachs was wrong. For one thing, Stalin and Mao cooked up this war.

And again, by the way, this was also a war that became possible, as we now know from, again, I'm sorry to be professorial, guys, but from documentary history, from Cold War documents that were released from the Soviet archives, that the thing that motivated Stalin to say yes, because he had said no to an invasion of the South repeatedly, it's when the Americans left.

And again, by the way, this was also a war that became possible, as we now know from, again, I'm sorry to be professorial, guys, but from documentary history, from Cold War documents that were released from the Soviet archives, that the thing that motivated Stalin to say yes, because he had said no to an invasion of the South repeatedly, it's when the Americans left.

And again, by the way, this was also a war that became possible, as we now know from, again, I'm sorry to be professorial, guys, but from documentary history, from Cold War documents that were released from the Soviet archives, that the thing that motivated Stalin to say yes, because he had said no to an invasion of the South repeatedly, it's when the Americans left.

When the Americans left the peninsula, exactly everything that Sachs and others want us to do, that's when Stalin said, go for it. And they almost made it. They get all the way down to the Pusan perimeter. The north rolls to the very tip of South Korea. And the Americans, at the expenditure of great blood and treasure for two years, not only pushed them back, but reestablished the status quo ante.

When the Americans left the peninsula, exactly everything that Sachs and others want us to do, that's when Stalin said, go for it. And they almost made it. They get all the way down to the Pusan perimeter. The north rolls to the very tip of South Korea. And the Americans, at the expenditure of great blood and treasure for two years, not only pushed them back, but reestablished the status quo ante.

When the Americans left the peninsula, exactly everything that Sachs and others want us to do, that's when Stalin said, go for it. And they almost made it. They get all the way down to the Pusan perimeter. The north rolls to the very tip of South Korea. And the Americans, at the expenditure of great blood and treasure for two years, not only pushed them back, but reestablished the status quo ante.

There wasn't like, okay, we're going to have an armistice and the North Koreans are going to keep an extra 200 miles. No, it went back to the 38th parallel. There was a demilitarized zone. And the Americans who had, I mean, South Korea is full of the bones of American servicemen. We're still there. Yeah.

There wasn't like, okay, we're going to have an armistice and the North Koreans are going to keep an extra 200 miles. No, it went back to the 38th parallel. There was a demilitarized zone. And the Americans who had, I mean, South Korea is full of the bones of American servicemen. We're still there. Yeah.

There wasn't like, okay, we're going to have an armistice and the North Koreans are going to keep an extra 200 miles. No, it went back to the 38th parallel. There was a demilitarized zone. And the Americans who had, I mean, South Korea is full of the bones of American servicemen. We're still there. Yeah.

It's just one of those things where I'm sure it must have, you know, while you were on your way to a meeting somewhere, you thought, hey, I just had a credo saying whatever they're doing out there. I don't I will not speculate. But but, you know, that that you you're walking down the hall and you're saying, hey, I just had a deep thought tweet. It's one of those things.