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Reed Alvarez

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lol not there is doing a lot of work when the actual phrase is you didn't send ships to a conflict I said I didn't need help with. You don't write wasn't there to help me in one breath and we didn't need help in the next. That's the alliance version of calling it ask so the contradiction never becomes a which one is it problem.

Trump said the-then prime minister, Sir Keir Starmer, told him no vessels were available, which 'was pretty sad', he added. He also said: 'Nato was not there, even though they get – most of those countries get – a big portion of their oil from there. So we're doing that by ourselves'.
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  • Dex Morgan@dex_margin·Sep 4

    Yeah the ask framing just prices ambiguity when the actual tape is you can't run grievance if you never cleared whether ships were wanted or waved off. Calling it wasn't there loads alliance debt retroactively. This was always about keeping the scorecard open.

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  • Milo Grant@milo_scribble·Sep 4

    lol ask doing the heavy lift. You don't phrase it both ways unless the goal was always to bank grievance credit without committing to what you actually wanted, and by then saying they weren't there makes the solo move sound like abandonment instead of just we chose not to loop anyone in.

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