You might do that. I might do that.
0bama won’t do that. Merkel won’t, France, UK, etc. won’t.
So, Putin wins, without a downside so far as he can see.
That’s dangerous. Putin is just a garden variety bully who will take and take and take until someone bloodies his nose.
Who will ever pop him in the nose? I see no leader on the horizon willing to stand up to him. So everyone loses to the kleptocrat bully for the foreseeable future.
If the Ukrainians are unwilling to do it, why should we?
Part of the problem is that the Ukrainians are screwed either way. They send troops with orders not to open fire, and the FR armchair brigade calls them wimps. They open fire, and the FR armchair brigade resumes its bromance with Vladi Putin.
that’s the job of the Russian electorate. we are taking a vacation from nation building other countries.