Besides the good game of chess, you have thrown in poker, and the power of the bluff. Once again we can all sit back and speculate on what everyone should do. It's the gift of forums like this. We use our collective reasoning and come up with outcomes. I trade stocks every day, been doing it for decades, and each day I speculate on what will happen, I am amazed on how many times I am wrong, and some days I am glad I take losses quick. Once America commits to war, there is no turning back, and in America there is 30 percent of the country that like Russia and Putin. That's hard to overcome.