A top US commander in Europe has admitted that the Biden administration failed to ‘deter and dissuade’ Russian President Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine.
and send troops to reinforce Nato’s presence on the eastern flank. The US president said he was not part of efforts to deter Russia last week, but General Tod Wolters, his head of Europe Command, provided a different account.
‘You as a combatant commander felt that you were part of an inter-agency effort intended to deter Vladimir Putin from invading Ukraine?’ Gallagher asked Wolters on Wednesday.Gallagher followed up: ‘Would it be fair to say that deterrence failed in Ukraine?’ ‘You remember if you covered me from the very beginning,’ Biden told a reporter last week. ‘I did not say that, in fact, the sanctions would deter him. Sanctions never deter. You keep talking about that. Sanctions never deter.’
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