We invaded a country and hunted down its leadership until they were all dead over a failed assassination on a former President.
Here we have a hideous case of mass murder by a bunch of drunken thugs backed up by Russian special forces and illegally transferred weapons. Tell Putin we pushed the “reset” button again.
If every scrap of wreckage and every last body isn’t in the hands of investigators within 24 hours Russia will be cut off from the international banking system until they comply. Let’s see how long he lives when his gangster buddies can’t access their money.
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A war with Russia would look nothing like war with Iraq did. People in this country have been conditioned to believe that "America at war" means a minuscule percentage of the population goes off to fight in places most Americans couldn't find on the map while the rest of the nation goes about their day to day activities in comfortable oblivion.
War with Russia will be nothing like this. We bomb them, they'll bomb us right back. We sink their ships, they'll sink ours. We destroy their cities, ours will burn as well.
And for what? Because some drunken, ignorant, poorly-trained separatists in a country we care little about thought they were shooting a military cargo plane and took down a passenger liner that should've never been flying over them in them first place?
No thanks.
If every scrap of wreckage and every last body isn’t in the hands of investigators within 24 hours Russia will be cut off from the international banking system until they comply. Let’s see how long he lives when his gangster buddies can’t access their money.
Russia is entirely self-sufficient. Cut them off from international banking and they'll just keep building tanks. Sure, some of the nouveau-riche living in palatial apartments in Moscow might have to barter their Rolex wristwatches but if you think cutting them off from the international financial markets will cripple their ability to make war, guess again. They've been there, done that --and won.