Posted on 04/15/2021 9:43:08 AM PDT by Kaslin
Wars often arise from uncertainty. When strong countries appear weak, truly weaker ones take risks they otherwise would not.
Sloppy braggadocio and serial promises of restraint can trigger wars, too. Empty tough talk can needlessly egg on aggressors. But mouthing utopian bromides convinces bullies that their targets are too sophisticated to counter aggression.
Sometimes announcing "a new peace process" without any ability to bring either novel concessions or pressures only raises false hopes -- and furor.
Every new American president is tested to determine whether the United States can still protect friends such as Europe, Japan, South Korea and Israel. And will the new commander in chief deter U.S. enemies Iran and North Korea -- and keep China and Russia from absorbing their neighbors?
Joe Biden, and those around him, seem determined to upset the peace they inherited.
Soon after Donald Trump left office, Vladimir Putin began massing troops on the Ukrainian border and threatening to attack.
Putin earlier had concluded that Trump was dangerously unpredictable, and perhaps best not provoked. After all, the Trump administration took out Russian mercenaries in Syria. It beefed up defense spending and upped sanctions.
The Trump administration flooded the world with cheap oil to Russia's chagrin. It pulled out from asymmetrical missile treaties with Russia. It sold sophisticated arms to the Ukrainians. The Russians concluded that Trump might do anything, and so waited for another president before again testing America.
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Our nation is being destroyed here, not by other nations abroad. Us fighting stupid wars & wasting money around the world helped bring us here.
“Every new American president is tested to determine whether the United States can still protect friends such as Europe, Japan, South Korea and Israel. “
wrong-
The model is to help them to be in a position to protect themselves. We don’t fight FOR them.
When necessary, we will always HELP defend our friends.
As long as we have the same goals and interests.
We are NOT the world’s Police force.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
biden is out of his league. Putin will play with him, torment him, to see how he reacts. Putin is far superior to biden in strategy. biden is a bumbling fool with his hand on the nuclear button.
He has gratuitously called Putin “a killer.” And he warned that the Russian dictator “will pay a price” for supposedly interfering in the 2020 election.”
This is the the totality of Demonrat “toughness”, shooting off the mouth and hoping it scares someone.
They all smell blood in the ater with Biden. All of them.
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