Heavy-handed autocracy has its limits - the latest example is seen in recent events in Azerbaijan - but other places with cemeteries filling up with war dead from Ukraine are having second thoughts
Facilitating might be a better choice of words. By refusing to call naked aggression for what it is. Korea is backing Russia. Whatever wording we use, Trump is pussyfooting around the obvious. Putin is a psychopath who can be detered from his folly only by force, and Trump is not providing that force.
Facilitating might be a better choice of words. By refusing to call naked aggression for what it is. Korea is backing Russia. Whatever wording we use, Trump is pussyfooting around the obvious. Putin is a psychopath who can be detered from his folly only by force, and Trump is not providing that force.