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FWIW, Samuels’ appears to be walking a very fine line in the piece. /1
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) May 6, 2016
Here’s his inference from the ‘grand deception’ of focusing on the 2013-2015 round & critics are seizing upon: 2/ pic.twitter.com/HZeUSEoggj
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) May 6, 2016
Here’s the *only* supporting evidence he offers from Rhodes — which is not actually from the interview: 3/ pic.twitter.com/CIyRwOEzvC
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) May 6, 2016
These are NOT the same argument. One is about trying to ‘end cycles of conflict,’ the other is about unravelling US alliances 4/
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) May 6, 2016
This is basically just Samuels offering his own theory and wrapping it in orthogonal statements and evidence 5/
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) May 6, 2016
It doesn’t track w/ US defense coop w/ Israel (and ‘compensation’ for Iran Deal), support of Saudi campaign in Yemen, and other policies 6/
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) May 6, 2016
In other words, this is, w/o further supporting evidence, bullocks. 7/ (fin) cc: @CherylRofer (who makes same points on her feed)
— Daniel Nexon (@dhnexon) May 6, 2016
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