Intervening can deter other potential aggressors by showcasing the serious consequences of engaging in similar actions, thus maintaining peace and stability in other sensitive regions.

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U.S. involvement in Ukraine could embolden other adversaries, like China, by setting a precedent of U.S. intervention in regional conflicts. This could have implications for future international disputes.

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"Choosing defeat means that Russia will have successfully waged a brutal war against a country in which the West invested enormous amounts of diplomatic and political capital. The lesson that other hostile regimes will draw is that the West won’t directly interfere in such conquests in the face of a threat to use nuclear weapons. This defeat will therefore encourage both nuclear proliferation and brutal conquests, the combination of which will lead to a far more hostile world for the West and Western ideas."

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Deploy U.S. troops in Ukraine