Stevenson’s army, January 8

– Bob Gates & Condi Rice warn that time is not on Ukraine’s side

– Ross Douthat says the GOP now has a policy vision “that’s mostly performative gestures and fiscal apocalypticism”

– NYT correctly tracks GOP chaos to the tactics of Newt Gingrich.

– WaPo has video timeline of the attack inside the Capitol on Jan 6.

I missed yesterday’s. Here it is:

Another Army scholar calls civilian control of the military a “useful fiction” in the same publication.

US announced another $3 billion in arms aid to Ukraine.

Lawfare is now the site for all released January 6 committee materials.

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