Ed Marshall

This used to be my tool to man my personal SE Asia and nuclear non-proliferation desk, but you people dragged me into this...

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

@pygmalion55 wish the right side of my face worked, but I wanted to go home a week early.

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

Checking out of the hospital at 10 a,m.

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

so uhhh, i guess what they pulled out was a grade 3 ependymoma. I can't figure out if that means as far as prognosis.

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

@lurkernonumbers yeah, it's me. I'm at the place I'm parked outside for the next week or so trying to rehab.

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

I live

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

@overloaded_alt been post-op since shortly i last talked to you. Recovering fast, just frustrated to have to do it at all

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

everything I do improves skills i lost due to reseting my cranial nerves. including mangling tweets.

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

@overloaded_alt I think its true for Davjd, not so true of everyone else.

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

@Herostratus420 tryin

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

in the icu. Yeah, it was my cerebellum shot to hell.

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

@Jonatha04031958 I guess it depends on what they are doing in that territory. If they sit in Belgorod and launch missiles into Ukraine they *will* continue to attack those systems and no one will be able to stop them.

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

Wars don't always end where you decide they should. That is why you should be careful when you embark on conquering your neighbor.

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

the us/nato objective vis russia should (and must) be the withdrawal of russian troops from ukraine

it should not (and cannot) be the destruction of the russian military

the latter risks a war we do not want and cannot afford

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

@Jonatha04031958 (oops) Roll Back idea that someone should roll on Moscow over it.

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

@Jonatha04031958 I'd hope that is more or less the American position. I would find it wildly irresponsible if there is someone knocking around out there with some Cold War

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

@adamnvillani Some of them did. I guess it's all way too late once you start a genocidal war. I have no idea where we have gone once The Left of all people has defined some insane idea that you have to trade with genociders.

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

This is the logical extension of The Left© becoming the pro-genocide free traders of the 21st Century.

[Gonzalo Lira @GonzaloLira1968]

Do you know why Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941?

Because the US imposed a total trade embargo.

And then an oil embargo.

With the explicit aim of crushing Japan's economy.

And ever after always claimed:

“The Japanese attacked us for no reason whatsoever!”

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

@lurkernonumbers To the extent it's true the Japanese were repeatedly given a choice "Quit the genocidal war in China or we quit selling you the gas to wage it". They picked option 3 which was "screw you, we will seize oil from other countries and keep on trucking".

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

I'm edging up my threat level on chemical warfare in Ukraine. If it gets used it will likely be on conventionally pinned down forces and exterminate the defenders like bugs. This is how it usually gets used.

[Ed Marshall @EEMthethird]

The US response to the Russian Victory Day parade should be a tour de force of unthinkable things to them A parade of heathy 70-year-old men and sober children.