« Reply #2 on: February 14, 2025, 11:27:14 am »
Vance’s actual quote, “There are economic tools of leverage; there are of course military tools of leverage,” does not specify an immediate deployment of troops but rather underscores the broad range of options at the U.S.’s disposal. This nuanced approach was intended to signal to Russia the seriousness with which the U.S. views the situation, without committing to any one course of action prematurely.
true enough, but it's also clear now that Trump and Vance are playing good cop/bad cop, kinda like Nixon and Kissinger did in ending the Vietnam and Yom Kippur Wars.
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