"Biden is acting rationally with Putin and now a major ground war appears inevitable. Obama acted rationally with Assad and a quarter million Syrians died. Obama acted rationally with Putin and Crimea was annexed and the Donbas destabilized. Predictability is a liability. (5/5)"Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Peter Meijer:
"Winding way of saying crazy can be good sometimes (predictability = liability). Soleimani was like a landmine going up in the middle of a soccer pitch- all the other players freeze, insecure in each step along ground they once carelessly ran across. (3/5)"Read on Twitter
"Putin knows more or less what Biden will do, and can bake that response into his calculus. What is rational to a 69 year old autocrat aware that there are long knives being sharpened, lying in wait for the first sign of vulnerability, is not what is rational to Biden. (4/5)"Read on Twitter
"The contradiction of our rules based order is it exists in a Hobbesian world, but acknowledging as much undermines the Lockeian aspiration to global embrace of the rule of law. Dilemma obvious: Biden lays out what will happen; Putin ponders concludes reward>risk (2/5)"Read on Twitter
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