Putin has been threatening to use nuclear weapons or poison gas or germs in the Ukraine War. Sean Hannity was saying last night that we ought to threaten Putin right back, as in “If you nuke us we will nuke you, harder.” Good idea, but should Biden utter such a threat nobody, not Putin, not I, not any of the newsies, would believe that Biden has the courage to carry out such a threat. Everyone expects that Biden would chicken out at the last minute.
Basic principle of negotiations. If you make a threat you have to be ready to carry it out. If you threaten but don’t carry thru people won’t believe anything else you say. In this case, the Biden case, it is best not to make threats at all.
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