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1 year agoThe Republicans in charge in Ohio brought this on themselves when they passed their absurd 6 week abortion ban with no exceptions for rape and incest. The citizen-initiated constitutional amendment gathered steam as a direct result of that.
The lesson should be: when you pander to the extremists in your party, you actually accomplish the opposite of what you wanted.
I think it bears pointing out that both the UK and France have their own nuclear weapons and are ultimately not beholden to the US.
So encouraging Russian aggression with the implicit notion that the US wouldn’t do anything in response to an attack actually makes nuclear war more likely because even if we didn’t respond… they would still feel compelled to.