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Nobody does war better than the United States. Oh, sorry, please don’t misunderstand me. When I say “war,” I don’t mean actual war—how passe! I don’t mean the messy parts where people die. I mean all the extraneous stuff around war.

Take Ukraine, for example. Lots of talk. Lots of promises. Lots of deals.

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