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Europe needs to get ready for America's financial commitment to Ukraine to shrink

The free-riding problem returns

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Matthew Yglesias
Mar 22, 2023
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Here’s the latest Bad Takes episode. Jacobin writer Branko Marcetic argues that elites learned nothing from the Iraq War. While Laura and I agree that this is a bad take, we discuss glaring examples of what should have been learned but hasn’t.

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