Even before the start of the Russian invasion, the Western countries had opted, vis-à-vis Russia, for a reasonable economic deterrent, the effects of which on Vladimir Putin have been, in any case until then, almost nil.
Faced with one of the biggest nuclear powers on the planet, whose autocratic president seems to be engaged in a dangerous headlong rush, Joe Biden has always said that he would not put an American soldier on Ukrainian soil.
Even if it was to evacuate American nationals.
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Since deterrence is a psychological process aimed at preventing the adversary from going through with his intentions, because the risks taken would be too great, the American president has reduced it to nothing in this crisis, allowing the master of the Kremlin , safe from Western military reprisals, to push his army to Kiev.
Vladimir Putin, he does the exact opposite of Westerners.
From the outset, he placed the intervention in Ukraine under the nuclear threat…
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