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Avoiding the Baltics, Biden troop deployments evince hesitation, not resolve

By Tom Rogan
Published February 2, 2022 5:01pm ET
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Avoiding the Baltics, Biden troop deployments evince hesitation, not resolve
Paratroopers assigned to 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division prepare equipment and load aircraft bound for the U.S. Central Command area of operations from Fort Bragg, N.C. on January 4, 2020. This deployment is a precautionary action taken to respond to increased threat levels against U.S. personnel and facilities. The 'Devil' Brigade is the nucleus of the U.S. Immediate Response Force, capable of rapidly deploying anywhere in the world in response to a variety of contingency operations. | (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Hubert Delany III)

Vladimir Putin’s pressure campaign against President Joe Biden just keeps paying off.

Last May, the United States deterred Russian aggression by airdropping 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers straight from Fort Bragg into Estonia. But then Putin started complaining. Biden quickly blinked, pressuring the Pentagon to stop military deployments that the Russian president disliked.

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