Lloyd Austin actually said...

Secretary of Defense Austin... describing this as a very limited self-defense strike, a precision strike aimed at defending the US against t...

If this doesn't stop, then we will respond. We maintain the right to respond. We have a capability to do that, and we will respond at a time...

If this doesn't stop, we will respond.

Putin is a strategic failure right now. He has not achieved any strategic objective that he set out to achieve.