{"id":124504,"date":"2022-03-30T16:14:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T20:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=124504"},"modified":"2022-03-30T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T20:14:10","slug":"bidens-deterrence-strategy-failed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=124504","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Deterrence Strategy Failed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-124505 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/32E66151-2C96-492D-8E80-7328F8FAF38B-300x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/32E66151-2C96-492D-8E80-7328F8FAF38B-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/32E66151-2C96-492D-8E80-7328F8FAF38B-333x333.jpeg 333w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/32E66151-2C96-492D-8E80-7328F8FAF38B-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/32E66151-2C96-492D-8E80-7328F8FAF38B-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/32E66151-2C96-492D-8E80-7328F8FAF38B.jpeg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite PINO Joe&#8217;s messaging strategy to issue dire warnings of economic sanctions and deploying a few thousand additional U.S. troops to Europe, Putin&#8217;s army invaded Ukraine on 24 February. This after months of his massing troops on their common border, signaling his intentions.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Obvious sends.<\/p>\n<h3>US commander admits Biden&#8217;s deterrence strategy failed in Ukraine<\/h3>\n<p><strong><em>US general admits Biden&#8217;s deterrence strategy to prevent Russian invasion of Ukraine failed<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Anders Hagstrom | Fox News<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>U.S. Gen. Tod Wolters admitted that President Biden&#8217;s strategy to deter Russia from invading Ukraine failed during testimony before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Wolters made the admission in response to questions from Republican Wisconsin Rep. Mike Gallagher. While Gallagher did not reference Biden by name, he questioned Wolters about the effectiveness of the U.S. effort to deter Russia&#8217;s invasion by non-military means in the months leading up to the invasion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You as a combatant commander felt that you were part of an inter-agency effort intended to deter Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine?&#8221; Gallagher asked.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s correct,&#8221; Wolters responded. &#8220;Deter and dissuade.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Would it be fair to say that deterrence failed in Ukraine?&#8221; Gallagher pressed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/us-commander-biden-deterrence-failed-ukraine-russia\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Economic sanctions may have had a deterrent effect if enacted prior to Putin&#8217;s invasion. We&#8217;ll never know, and Joe stated they were never intended to alter Putin&#8217;s course of action anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Joe&#8217;s remarks refuted statements from his own Vice President, Secretary of State, and Press Secretary, who all claimed the sanctions threatened against Russia were meant to deter Putin&#8217;s invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Joe&#8217;s long history of being wrong stands untarnished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite PINO Joe&#8217;s messaging strategy to issue dire warnings of economic sanctions and deploying a few &hellip; <a title=\"Biden&#8217;s Deterrence Strategy Failed\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=124504\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biden&#8217;s Deterrence Strategy Failed<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447,384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dick-stepping","category-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}