Biden’s (and Trump’s) Nuclear Blunder

It turns out that ambiguity is far more frightening than a threat on which one doesn’t want to follow through.

Sergei Savostyanov, Sputnik, Kremlin pool via AP, file
If oil were down around $40-$50 per barrel, where it was during the energy-independent Trump years, Vladimir Putin wouldn’t have ever had enough money to wage war. Sergei Savostyanov, Sputnik, Kremlin pool via AP, file
ELI LAKE
ELI LAKE

President Biden often likes to remind voters that he is a deep foreign policy thinker with decades of experience meeting with world leaders. Yet last week, he demonstrated that he has either forgotten or never learned some of the basic lessons of Cold War nuclear brinkmanship.

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