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WASHINGTON — In the muted, wood-paneled corridors of Western power, geopolitical strategy is often treated like a high-stakes chess match played with spreadsheets, economic algorithms, and controlled escalations. But out in the strategic depth of Eastern Europe, and within the increasingly paranoid walls of the Kremlin, the game is rapidly shifting from chess to Russian roulette—and the chamber is loaded.
For nearly five years, Washington and its European allies have operated under a comforting, if highly perilous, thesis: that Vladimir Putin’s “red lines” are mere rhetorical bluffs, meant to terrify Western voters rather than signal actual military thresholds. Each subsequent escalation—from sending advanced tanks and Patriot missile batteries to authorizing long-range Storm Shadow and ATACMS strikes deep into sovereign Russian territory—has been met with a sigh of relief when Moscow failed to unleash a catastrophic counter-response.
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