Nicholas Stowell

[Nicholas Stowell @nickstowell651]

@real_romeo_mike @haralabob https://t.co/V23Ppdo5RD

[Nicholas Stowell @nickstowell651]

@Cl0ud7 @haralabob India's real GDPPC growth rate is around 7%. Spain's is around 2%. India will catch up sooner than you think.

[Nicholas Stowell @nickstowell651]

@__oriol__ @haralabob I'd like to think I'm fairly educated on this topic, but please say more about these three booming economies. Or just ask Grok.

[Nicholas Stowell @nickstowell651]

@DavidRBailleul @haralabob I hadn't made a proposal. I pointed out that reducing inward migration exacerbated a very large and growing problem for a country like Spain. Global population collapse could be a problem 100 years from now, but a shrinking labor force is a big problem for Spain today.

[Nicholas Stowell @nickstowell651]

@haralabob Strawman. The clash of civilizations trope is tired. Culture is a word used by xenophobes in the absence of objective fact. You can't legislate your way back to a sustained replacement birthrate. The data on that is clear. How do you propose Spain reverse its shrinking workforce?

[Dr. Jonathan N. Stea @jonathanstea]

Problems with pharma don't mean that quackery works.

Problems in aircraft design don’t mean that magic carpets can actually fly.

- Ben Goldacre

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

All people of good will must know the history of body cameras. Why did Democrats, consultant, and pundits push them as "police reform"? The truth is quite dark.

[Jorge Washington @theredhombre]

You cannot argue with MAGA. They demand evidence, then call your sources biased. You provide primary sources, they claim they're doctored. You show them video, they say it's out of context. You give them context, they say you're cherry-picking. This isn't debate. This is a systematic refusal to allow reality to intrude on mythology. You're not arguing facts. You're arguing whether facts exist.

[Nicholas Stowell @nickstowell651]

@Timberwolves @TargetCenterMN @ABCNetwork @iHeartRadio You have to cancel this game!

[Richard Fontaine @RHFontaine]

Most foreign policy issues are difficult and complicated. Greenland isn’t one of them. Let’s have a look at seven points:

1. The U.S. needs Greenland for its own defense - Golden Dome, radars, basing.

▶️ The United States can do virtually anything it'd like in Greenland, security-wise, without taking possession of it. The 1951 Greenland Defense Agreement, which was renewed in 2004, allows the United States to build bases there, station troops, and more.

2. Greenland is about to fall into the hands of Russia and China, and the U.S. can’t let that happen.

▶️ The U.S. once had 10,000 U.S. troops in Greenland; now there are around 200. If there is an imminent threat of Chinese or Russian takeover (there isn’t), perhaps start by increasing that number?

3. Russian and Chinese ships are swarming Greenland and the Danes can’t fend them off.

▶️ If Russian and Chinese ships are really menacing the island, the U.S. Navy could sail around it right now en masse. It isn’t.

4. The U.S. needs to own Greenland because "you don't defend leases." Even if Denmark allows full access, there’s a difference between owning and renting.

▶️ This is the No One Washes a Rental Car theory of international relations. In reality, the United States is committed to defending many allies whose territory it does not own. Trump himself defended Israel just last year. The whole point of alliances is mutual defense of one another's territory. That doesn't require seizing it. 

5. The Danes are bad allies, so they should hand over Greenland.

▶️ Denmark has been a model ally. Not so long ago, Danes fought for America’s defense rather than the other way around. Among 40-plus allies and partners in Afghanistan, Denmark lost the most soldiers as a percentage of its population. Our allies defended the U.S., which, by the way, none of them owns.

6. This is the new Manifest Destiny. We’re an expansionist, frontier people. Greenland should, one way or the other, join the ever-growing Republic.

▶️ The post-1945 order is predicated a prohibition against conquest. Countries don’t acquire the territory of another without their consent. Iraq doesn’t get Kuwait, Russia can’t have Ukraine, Canada won’t be the 51st state, and the U.S. doesn’t compel Greenland to join. We’ve seen a world before in which conquest abounds. It’s the law of the jungle.

7. This isn’t real, just some fun administration trolling of the ever-nervous Europeans.

▶️ It is at a minimum a major distraction from real issues the transatlantic allies should focus on: Russia, Ukraine, Iran, China. Prodding allies to distrust our word and intentions does not amount to good policy.

Most foreign policy issues are difficult and complicated. Greenland isn’t one of them. The sooner this manufactured crisis fades, the better.

[Nicholas Stowell @nickstowell651]

@MattGlantz They tear gassed the school down the street as it let out. Sorry we don't care that they have mortgages. Not your best take.

[Nicholas Stowell @nickstowell651]

@MattGlantz I live down the street from where ICE killed Renee Good. I can assure you we don't look at our neighbors and see the enemy. We are looking out for our neighbors. Masked, armed men in military gear are ripping my neighbors from their cars and homes and throwing them into vans...

[Nicholas Stowell @nickstowell651]

@Parkerfox24 Dave Winfield

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

Do officers usually flee the scene after a justified shooting?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

So if you're calling out people for using the term "fascist", Congressman, will you be calling out Donald Trump? Yes or no?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“Ilhan Omar’s Country of Somalia” is an inherently racist statement. Her country is the United States. Omar is a US citizen.

In any normal country, with a functioning opposition and decent media, this would be a huge controversy for the governing party and the president. 🤷🏽‍♂️😡

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: I call on Fox News to fire Brian Kilmeade.

After Fox News host Brian Kilmeade called for executing mentally ill homeless people, two homeless encampments in Minneapolis were attacked — 13 people injured.

This seems even worse than people who the right are calling to be fired.