The extreme silliness of deploying an additional 8K troops to reassure allies.

 re·as·sure
/ˌrēəˈSHo͝or/
verb
say or do something to remove the doubts or fears of (someone).
"he understood her feelings and tried to reassure her"

Can we all agree that the US deploying another 8K troops to Europe to assure allies is the dumbest thing ever?

Biden says that Putin will be emboldened.  Why?  Putin laid out his plans, and appears to be accomplishing them.  

More importantly, Biden has laid out our intelligence for the whole world to see (and potentially counter in the future...I'm sure every potential foe worldwide was taking notes), if Putin was about to make a push into NATO (which would be beyond stupid) I'm sure he would have let us all know AND we would be sending over more than Army Airborne and Air Assault.

But the language that the DoD uses is the most worrisome.

"REASSURE"!

We don't need to reassure our allies.  We need to be able to respond to serious threats with quickness.  We need to be able to land a credible force that is able to defeat real threats.

Reinstate the Rapid Deployment Force and get away from this provocative Forward Deployment regimen.

Additionally we need to dump this "reassurance" stance that we take with deployments. 

WE ARE OVERSTRETCHED!  We can't deploy to every country that gets nervous (and it isn't credible).

To summarize....

The deployment of additional forces to Europe is theater.  Some European countries are being alarmist and emotional.

Am I right or wrong?