"...Once Putin showed his hand and it proved a bust, he would lose all power to bluff...and the myth of the mighty Red Army would be dispelled for decades.
...In a counterfactual world where the Russian president...continued to feint, where NATO was still in awe of the supposedly unstoppable Russian army and Putin still hitting Biden up for nickels and dimes to keep him from unleashing it, the Kremlin might still be the capital of a great power
...If there’s any lesson in this for Washington, it must be to ask: how much of America’s power is myth like Russia’s?
...If too much is spin then put it not to the test, but keep on bluffing until the reality is restored.
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