Putin on the Clock… Tic-Toc: U.S. Escalates to De-Escalate

Doctrine of Restraint moves one step forward

$50 million.

That’s it.

Not $500 million. Not $5 billion.

Just a $50 million order — quietly placed by the Pentagon with a German-American company — but it’s the clearest sign yet that the United States has shifted. Containment is no longer theoretical. Constraint, if needed, is now part of the playbook.

Because that one move ties together every loose thread from the past few weeks into a single, focused point. The net isn’t forming. It’s already there.