American adversaries have become emboldened to test American resolve, with experts arguing the problem can be traced back to President Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan.
"I think that's when Putin said… 'they're not serious, they are going to take their marching orders from the Germans,'" Coates said.
Despite the international challenges continuing to stack up, Coates argued that the administration has insisted on sending the wrong message to America's enemies. Rubin also pointed to the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, noting that Iraq did not pose an immediate threat to national security and that the stated reasons for the invasion turned out to be false.
"I think some of the hostile reaction you're seeing is because countries are adversaries are feeling the pressure of being surrounded by American allies now who are not taking it, and they don't have as much free rein, and so they're pushing back," Rubin said."That's the ugly reactions from countries that don't want to play ball with us so easily."
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