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Slaby: Sounds dire. Examples? What does it even mean? Is the state of the IRS or the failure of FDA and CDC to apply elementary CBA to their COVID response, or the vast Nimbyist restriction on residential and commercial development, or a shortage of asylum hearing officers at the border, or the fixation of "environmentalists" on quantitative targets rather than taxes to reduce demand for CO2 emitting activities, or the reduction of a trickle of H1b visas to a dribble, due to "neoliberal technocrats?" Do such exotic creatures even exist outside the Nikansen Center?

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Drezner: NATO was not an existential threat to Russia or even to Putin, before the invasion. Apparently Putin decided -- and who are we to say he was incorrect -- that an independent democratic Ukraine was an existential threat to Putin. Yes it is important to communicate to non-Putin Russia that Ukraine is no existential threat to Russia, only to Putin.

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