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David Santoro
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President/CEO @PacificForum. PhD International Relations. Strategy, nukes, big history, the future. Multidisciplinary. Runner. Dual 🇺🇸🇫🇷. Own views.
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    David Santoro
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    Jun 8
    Building a "constructive relationship of strategic stability" with China doesn't mean competition has stopped, including in the military domain. In this piece👇I argue with my colleague Kim Lehn that the US should embrace "precise mass" to prevail in war.
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    The Attrition Advantage: How the United States Can Win Through Precise Mass
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    David Santoro
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    Feb 27, 2022
    Who expected this level of international pushback? I didn't. Not like that, not so fast, not so strong.
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    David Santoro
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    Jun 30, 2019
    “The United States has accepted North Korea as a nuclear-armed state” This is the headline. Look at the picture - really look at it - and tell me I’m wrong. #NorthKorea #Nuclear #DMZ
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    David Santoro
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    Oct 14, 2020
    Tweet from the German Ambassador to the US 👇👇👇👇👇
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    Jens Hanefeld
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    Oct 14, 2020
    Hannah Arendt, a German Jew, political theorist and philosopher, was born on this day in 1906. One of her many legacies: Totalitarianism can flourish where people systematically refuse to engage with reality, and are ready to replace reason with ideology and outright fiction.
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    David Santoro
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    Apr 5, 2023
    I’ve been in India for nearly a week and I’m more convinced than ever that if the US wants to advance US-India relations it needs to engage India in the same way France does. That is, stop trying to “rally” India behind you, just focus on areas where cooperation is possible.
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    David Santoro
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    Sep 3, 2021
    "Losing Afghanistan to China" includes two assumptions: 1. We "had" Afghanistan. 2. China will "have" Afghanistan.
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    David Santoro
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    May 4, 2020
    Yes something decisive happened in 1917. On April 6 the US declared war on Germany.
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    Acyn
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    May 3, 2020
    The President says the Spanish Flu of 1917 probably ended World War I
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    David Santoro
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    Jan 7, 2021
    The most fundamental question was asked by @VanJones68 yesterday: "Is this the end of something or the beginning?"
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    David Santoro
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    Apr 8, 2023
    I've just spent a week in India. India's security concern, by far, is threefold: 1. China. 2. China. 3. China.
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    Foreign Policy
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    Apr 7, 2023
    India recognizes the danger China poses to its security, and the current Bharatiya Janata Party government has taken some steps to meet the challenge—but it remains reluctant to publicly acknowledge them. @HappymonJacob explains why: buff.ly/40HE67K
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    David Santoro
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    Nov 26, 2021
    Sometimes I wonder how people survive in this world.
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    David Santoro
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    Feb 11, 2024
    👇 And it was the first and only time @NATO invoked Article 5.
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    Michael McFaul
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    Feb 11, 2024
    When we were attacked on 9/11/2001, our NATO allies came to our aid. Soldiers from NATO countries died fighting next to our soldiers in Afghanistan, even though none of their countries were attacked. Please remember these facts. Thank you.
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    David Santoro
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    Jan 1, 2020
    #HappyNewYear from downtown #Honolulu
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    David Santoro
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    Jul 24, 2020
    I have a deterrence joke, but it will escalate.
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    David Santoro
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    May 29, 2024
    Not quite. Ukraine didn’t have, as in possess (let alone have access to/control), nuclear weapons. It had Russian nuclear weapons on its territory and there was an agreement to repatriate them. Giving the impression that Ukraine gave up “its” nuclear arsenal is incorrect.
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    May 28, 2024
    In 1996 Ukraine handed over nuclear weapons to Russia "in exchange for a guarantee never to be threatened or invaded"
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