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The argument against domestic oil and gas production is not primarily technical or economic, but political. It deserves to be argued on those terms with honesty about the trade-offs involved.
A big buy of American munitions is stalled in the Taiwanese legislature.
It is tyranny when China does it, but civilised when we do it.
International law does not create states: it presupposes their existence. If powerful states conclude that the rules offer them no viable path to protect themselves, they will eventually abandon them.