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  • If French troops were sent into Ukraine and were then hit by Russia, would that then trigger NATO agreements?

    Article 6 says:

    "For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:

    on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France 2, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer; on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer."

    Aware this might be a situation where the spirit of the agreement ends up being more important than the legalese.





  • To play devil’s advocate here, I suspect many rural voters would probably just say they’d like to be left alone more than anything else.

    They really buy into that Reagan line about “I’m from the government and I’m here to help” being the 9 most terrifying words in the English language. They haven’t seen government programs working effectively around them.

    I’m not sure promising more government assistance for rural areas is a winning message, is my point.

    We might be able to point out the class divide between republican voters and their representatives, though. That, and highlighting the donors those representatives are really working for.

    Conservative philosophy has had generations to settle in these areas, so any messaging to the contrary is going to be an uphill climb.