Move the goalposts much? Now I don’t have to only give analyses of how we’re being outplayed, but then have to go back months further to provide further analysis. Got it. How about before I do that, you go ahead and provide some facts and analyses that that demonstrate biden and nato are outplaying putin and russia.
Further, please expand on that belief that "accurately predicting someone's actions and not stopping them doesn't mean they outplayed you, it just means they are predictable." If we're keeping the football analogies going, ND was entirely predictable in the 2012 bcs Championship Game. The result? A smart, well-planned and executed game plan, brought about by the best in the business resulted in this:
BCS Championship - Notre Dame vs Alabama Box Score, January 7, 2013 | College Football at Sports-Reference.com
I bring this up because, similarly, the U.S. SHOULD be alabama here, ya know, the best and brightest in the defense, security, and intelligence services. Is it an apples to apples comparison? Obviously not. But your cop-out is lame.
Finally, putin and russia may not score enough to win. But so far, they are the only ones scoring. So while only allowing your opponents to run between the 20's and allowing them to score FG's can be a winning strategy, it is, in fact, only a winning strategy if you yourselves are scoring FG's or TD's yourself. Please, kindly, point out all of our scores.
Look, I am measured and cautious by nature. I like to see how things unfold and gain as much knowledge as possible before acting or reacting. I advise others to take this approach rather than adopt an emotional or irrational course of action. This is entirely different for 2 reasons though. First, biden is on the heels of a complete and total disaster in his Afghanistan withdrawal, his rejection of the findings of thousands and thousands of hours and pages of the AAR, the recent reports that the military has already spent millions of man-hours and hundreds of millions of dollars on discussing and implementing crt (not to mention the hopefully upcoming reports on the military investigating and rooting out the supposed infiltration of our military by neo-nazis/separitists. And these reports will be disastrous), and the statements from his intelligence team that said the sanctions were supposed to deter an invasion, yet biden himself claiming they weren't. So it's not like biden has built up any cache of even being competent, let alone being effective.
Second, there is a clock on all this. Is it enough to drive putin and russia out Ukraine in 2-6 years? How many people need to die, how much money must we and other nations spend, and how much extra should we all pay in inflation and opportunity costs before this ends? This isn't a rhetorical question. Truly, how many lives and dollars is it worth to you see this stopped?
