What bothered me most about the theatre yesterday was the demand for fealty 

America isn’t a feudal kingdom, it’s a republic — no man is a king and while we celebrate great statesmen, we serve no masters 

If you’re in crypto, it’s ever more important to build or align with protocols that can’t be co-opted

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Aligning economic incentives makes sense -- especially when the nation no longer has the appetite for spending on foreign wars

We can debate whether treating geopolitics as business negotiations is wise over longer time horizons, but this is a different matter altogether from asking someone to kiss the ring

Worse than fealty, they wanted him to offer up his country's resources, which he might not even have the unilateral power to do, in exchange for nothing. So Zelensky just trying to navigate this attempted extortion rather than lay down was what led to Vance ambushing him.

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I'm in the same boat as you -- caught between Scylla and Charybdis

I'm in crypto because I see it as the only viable path thru

Fully agree, but I do find myself having to respect the anti-war stance, maybe the rarest position in American politics. It’s coming bundled with some grade-A egomania tho.

well said

america is much bigger than trump

Peace is always preferable to war but, if the 20th century taught us anything, it's that there can be no appeasement of dictators and that the age of expansion by conquest MUST be over.