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The Era of Grand Treaties from the Cold War is Done – Get Over It and Start Acting Like It

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The Kellog-Briand Treaty of 1928, the Treaty to Outlaw War worked really well, as we all know.  Within four years, World War II broke out in China as the starting point for a worldwide conflagration, which made the “Great War’ look tame and mostly peaceful.  Previously, the Washington Naval Treaty savaged the Allied Navies before World War II while the two major Axis powers cheated and put their finger underneath the scale to make sure their capital ships were much lighter than they appeared so as not to violate tonnage limitations.

Representative Mike Turner’s recent freak-out over something in space was unprecedented.  Was it a stunt to push Ukraine Aid? 

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