“It is a relief that Trump took an off-ramp tonight,” wrote Jennifer Kavanagh, the director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, a libertarian think tank. “But if he was going to back down, he did so in the worst way. Raising the stakes so high beforehand, he maximized the damage to his credibility & global perceptions of U.S. power. This is a clear strategic defeat for the U.S.”
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