For years, Donald Trump criticized presidents for empty threats.

He often pointed to then-President Barack Obama failing to enforce his “red line” on Syria using chemical weapons. During his first term in 2017, Trump called it a “blank threat” that cost us “in many other parts of the world.”

When Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal in 2018, he intoned: “Today’s action sends a critical message: The United States no longer makes empty threats. When I make promises, I keep them.”

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, Trump decried the Biden administration for letting Vladimir Putin off “with no repercussions whatsoever.”

But Monday, as Trump prepares to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a host of European leaders, his own threats to sanction R

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