Escalating economic warfare might — just might — have unintended consequences.
Look: Russia does have oil. And Russia does have food. And Russia’s population is not huge. These are all good things for Russia. Pushing the world into a global economic crisis will hurt millions of people. And probably very, very few of those people will speak Russian.
What?? You're not on the Get Putin War Wagon? What's he gonna do over his stolen gold/assets - nuke the first few countries that tries it? Is that gold or getting Putin worth risking that? No, we have to go down the path our genius Congress has led us down and spend billions more on this righteous war (hold up Ukranian picture). So, some more Ukranians get killed, Germans freeze in the winter and world peace is in our rearview mirror, it's full steam ahead.
“And Russia’s population is not huge. These are all good things for Russia.”
Yeah, that third one might be a negative when you are stuck fighting a trench war that your President won’t give up on.