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@BaneyMike @PeterBeinart @AliAbunimah His position is that the US as a great power should primarily bargain away the rights of smaller countries in the service of the "grand strategy" of the moment.
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@BaneyMike @PeterBeinart @AliAbunimah In the current moment that means seeking a long term alliance with Russia to counter China. With Ukraine's independence as the price.
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@BaneyMike @PeterBeinart @AliAbunimah Fifteen years ago, the argument was that not settling the Palestine question was complicating the alliance with Arab States against Iran. (Since then the Gulf monarchies have solved this imperial dilemma by throwing Palestine under the bus and settling with Israel.)