Perhaps it’s known that Russia won’t invade, and they’re talking tough, and will take credit for avoiding war.
I can almost believe that Biden’s people are trying to take credit for stopping a war that wasn’t going to happen anyway.
I can almost imagine that our talk about the Russian pipeline infrastructure is REALLY a message to China about our willingness to take out the Three Gorges Dam.
But that stuff is almost 3D chess and while I can think of one politician who is capable of that sort of thing, I do not know anyone in the Biden administration who seems capable of that sort of thing.