Jim Risch actually said...

What they see is incompetence that they think they might be able to exploit, may lead to miscalculation.

Risch warns that adversaries view the withdrawal as a sign of U.S. incompetence.

09/13/2021

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the down-side risks for us seem much greater than that potential benefit that we might have that is clearly theoretical, not working now.

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