They apply to foreign affairs, whereas if the bully thinks you're weak, they're going to push you. And so what happened is that the bullies think we're weak. So Putin's invasion of Ukraine was a direct reaction to the failure in Afghanistan. And some of the signals that the Biden administration gave, the approval of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, as an example, the fact that a day or two after the … (22:30–22:36)
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