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Don't forget that Obama showed to the whole world what american security assurance actually is, enabled putin and is one of the main reason for 2022 russian invasion. True Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Trump is not an aberration, he just not bothering to hide his actual face.

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Yip, it was he who wimped out of the USA's obligations (stated and inferred) in the Budapest Declaration when Russia invaded Crimea in 2014.

It's actually hard for a nation with 14 aircraft carriers to stuff-up this badly.

It’s the same problem today as it was then. It is actually hard if you’re a democracy answerable to your people.

Are you willing to bet even a 1% chance to trade Los Angeles for Vladivostok? Warsaw for St. Petersburg? Because Putin is certainly willing to play chicken. Obama, Biden and (maybe?) even Trump are not.

Then expect a world full of nuclear armed, partially failing authoritarian countries.

At minimum I fully expect South Korea to go nuclear in the near future. I wouldn’t be surprised if Japan follows.

The western world's endearing committment to the treaties they sign.

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