NUMBER_TOKEN and proceeded to do pretty much nothing pretty much nothing here's the thing about deterrence deterrence only works when you have credible threat of the use of force that threat is only credible when one of two things is true either you have tripwires everywhere meaning that if somebody stumbles across the tripwire bad things happen this is why we have american forces still present in south korea for example it doesn't rely on the american president to make a statement that if north korea crosses the border into south korea the u.s will get involved we have american troops directly in harm's way so if they do that if they cross that border americans will die and the united states president and congress will basically be obligated to get involved it's that simple there are two things you can do you can do that the tripwire system or you have to have a president who is so intimidating that everyone just knows that if you cross him he will break you does joe biden sound like that kind of precedent so we didn't have the trip wires and we also have a weakling for a president and russia knows this so too little too late the united states is trying to pour resources into the region as a deterrent again the goal of putting troops in eastern europe is not because you want to go to war with russia it's because you don't want to go to war with russia it turns out a great strategy for getting yourself into a war in europe an excellent strategy for getting yourself into a war is to keep surrendering chunks of land to an autocratic regime we have a fairly long history of this in europe and as it turns out all over the globe surrender is not actually a strategy surrender is a strategy for emboldening your enemies they move on to the next thing that they want deterrence is an excellent strategy for getting people to back off and the way you get them to back off is either you are very intimidating as a human or two you've put a bunch of tripwires all over the place joe biden did none of that so now he's trying to backfill this so he's simultaneously weak by evacuating all the embassies in ukraine and by getting americans out and then by telling everybody hey find yourself a commercial flight and at the same time i'm going to backfill sanctions i'm going to backfill putting troops in eastern europe if you're vladimir putin now the now the anti has been up to the point where you almost can't afford for domestic political reasons not to cross that border if putin doesn't do it now now looks like he's been backed down by biden so this is why the biden administration pretty openly thinks that putin's going to cross that border at some point in the very near future according to the new york times president biden is considering deploying several thousand us troops as well as warships and aircraft and nato allies in the baltics in eastern europe an expansion of american military involvement in mounting fears of a russian incursion into ukraine according to administration officials the move would signal a major pivot for the biden administration which up until recently was taking a restrained stance on ukraine out of fear of provoking russia into invading
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