russia s control, including by military meansro. but we have not developed a deterrence strategy to deterrence strategy, something the pentagon is really not good . look at afghanistan. we have lost effectively a low a tech adversary after 20 yearsar having invested two point two trillion dollars and sacrificed 6000 american livesn alone. so unfortunately, the one trick pony that president biden has, which is sanctions, has no tricks because putin has sanctioned putin s economy for a long time. op ed by max boot over and washington post is this if the world does not respond more strongly to russian transgressions in the future than it has in the past, putin will ben emboldened to commit even worse crimes. and so will other dictators. fred,s what is your concern about not only this incursion potentially, but what happens because of it i more broadly?