He can't just do it on his own though. He'll need someone to, er, react against?

Wait..so he's blowing up random boats in the name of fighting drugs but pardons the highest ranking drug traffickers..
OK. Seems very normal and rational.

He is responsible for the deaths of countless American citizens, and will now be pardoned by Donald Trump.

Don’t tell me Donald Trump is killing people in boats in the Caribbean to stop drug trafficking.

People in the intelligence community call Witkoff Dim Philby - both for his level of intelligence and because he’s working for the Russians.

Brexit won't happen. Trump won't win reelection. Truss would never do that ...

(But if those polls were repeated at an election, we'd have a real crisis of legitimacy, whoever won it)

And that's just one way the West and the media has failed the Ukranian people

Russia's drone and missile attacks are too often lazily presented as 'air war' when they are often simply attacks aimed at civilan infrastructure with no military justification. It's as evil as the Blitz, Dresden, Tokyo.

If he hasn't used Charles Peters' giggling retelling of Galbraith's "If it wasn't for the Alps ..." evaluation of LBJ, then he's missed a trick. It was one of my favourite video clips I used in teaching

youtu.be/CygVUkby5aA?...

Undermine national sovereignty, cultivate the separatists, sow division, alienate the territory for imperialist gain ... We've seen this playbook in Ukraine already. And Vance and Thiel's influence on US policy look very suspect there too