https://spectator.org/the-de-ukrainification-of-the-national-security-council/
The De-Ukrainification of the National Security Council
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President Trump should have demanded that the NSC be streamlined in 2016, but he has been poorly served by the Council and was undermined by a few too many Vindmans. O’Brien’s goal is to bring the NSC down to fewer than 120 policy staffers. However, his real goal should be to retain only those whose first priorities are to truly serve the president. Lt Col. Alexander Vindman is not one of those.
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It is no surprise that President Donald Trump would be skeptical about Ukraine. He knows that the Ukrainian embassy tried to undermine him in 2016. But most people will never understand the role Chalupa and Ciaramella played in all of this because House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff and the Democrats would not allow her to be called as a witness in the impeachment inquiry — despite a request by the Republicans.
A brilliant article on so many levels.
Remembering William T. Sherman on his 200th birthday
By Monica Showalter
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The wokester statue-pulls were really just about just going Taliban, erasing history altogether, good, bad, complex, and replacing the entire history of the Civil War with Howard Zinn-style identity-politics myths. The man who really did defeat slavery, on the military battlefront, in a deadly, disease-ridden, utterly brutal war of attrition, Sherman, gets quietly erased from memory too, not by a statue pulldown, but by ignoring him.
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Sherman himself though wasn’t a monster at all. Several things stand out that make him sympathetic. Like Grant, he was kind of a sensitive soul, fond of painting, not something you expect in the modern age in a soldier. He was so disturbed by war early in the Civil War that he had a nervous breakdown and had to be shipped back to Ohio to recuperate. He came back, though, and fought with brilliance for the union, ruthlessly, against his own nature, because there was a higher cause at stake.
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General Grant is a great general. I know him well. He stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk; and now, sir, we stand by each other always.
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It is no surprise that President Donald Trump would be skeptical about Ukraine. He knows that the Ukrainian embassy tried to undermine him in 2016. But most people will never understand the role Chalupa and Ciaramella played in all of this because House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff and the Democrats would not allow her to be called as a witness in the impeachment inquiry — despite a request by the Republicans.
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This is all assuming that the DoJ including Huber and Durham is sitting on their hands.