HOW PUTIN IS BEATING THE WEST AT DETERRENCE
ETERRENCE IS WORKING just not for the right side. In this tragedy’s most catastrophic blunder, the U.S. and its allies failed to deter Russia from invading. President Joe Biden’s plan to create deterrence relied almost exclusively on threats that would be executed only after Russian forces crossed Ukraine’s borders. Unfortunately, the West’s credibility in threatening after-the-fact punishments was shredded by its earlier failures to impose stringent sanctions following the Kremlin’s assaults on Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014.
