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The U.S. should not use the Ukraine war as a rationale for pursuing a mutually destructive set of policies toward Russia.

The mutually destructive war had no clear end or military solution.

In this version of the scene, she stares directly into the camera to sing “I’d Rather Be Me,” an anthemic showstopper by composer Jeff Richmond and lyricist Nell Benjamin in which Janis calls out the insidious, unspoken ways in which women deceive and undercut each other for their own gain, and unapologetically opts out of such mutually destructive efforts in the future:

In fact, in his 1957 book “Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy” future national security adviser and secretary of state Henry Kissinger proposed the concept of a “limited nuclear war” as an alternative to mutually destructive “massive retaliation.”

Art has fashioned himself into a stunted thing to be “safe,” yet he and Mercy are two planets locked in a mutually destructive orbit.