Subj : Re: Keys to the White Hou
To   : AARON THOMAS
From : Mike Powell
Date : Sat Jul 27 2024 10:38:00

>  MP> Trump wasn't really protecting it, either, though.  What his presence did
>  MP> do, for whatever reason, was to cause Putin to hold off on escalating the
>  MP> conflict until Trump left office.

>  MP> Trump had no policy in place, that Joe undid, that would have caused
>  MP> Putin to cease aggressions there.

> Maybe it was unlucky timing for Biden, but his response to the Russian troop
> build-up along the Ukraine border was weak. He did absolutely nothing about it
> as our asset became endangered. And then after our asset was under water, he
> threw money at it. And when that failed, he threw more money at it, only for
> that to fail also.

It hasn't failed entirely.  If things went the way Russia planned, the
asset would be entirely theirs.

I suspect that they, like administrations before theirs, were hoping they
could ignore it and it would just go away.  Of course, that always works
about as well as a CIA covert operation, which means it didn't work and
will probably wind up costing more money in the long run.

That said, Americans over the years have become more adverse to human
casualties vs. money.  Human casualties is something that would have been
made more likely by any serious build-up along the Ukraine-Russia border.


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