The Iran war started under Biden, not Trump. Joe said ‘don’t,’ and Tehran did

on a single insight: A threat deters only when the adversary believes it will be carried out. Analysts at West Point’s Modern War Institute distilled the corollary years earlier, writing about the Syria red line, that if you end up having to send in ground forces, deterrence has already failed. A one-word warning paired with a zero-cost aftermath does continue reading …