Joe Biden, the president of the United States, says one word over and over and over: “Don’t.”
He said it of the Taliban with regard to attacks on American troops. And then they did. He said it to the Russians with regard to going into Ukraine. And then they did. Now he’s said it to the Iranians with regard to directly attacking Israel. And then, of course, they did.
All of which means that Joe Biden is not a credible player on the world stage.
There is something in foreign policy called deterrence. It’s the single most important concept of the postwar era. The Defense Department defines deterrence as the “prevention of action by the existence of a credible threat of unacceptable counteraction and/or belief that the cost of action outweighs the perceived benefits.”
In other words, you do not attack me because I am threatening you. If you attack me, I will clock you into next…
