RE: Pretext
Can you elaborate further?
There will not be a name or mockery unused by any here on FR, but (in this case) possible *Pretext*
— Designed moral obligation to respond with overwhelming and decisive force, in the defense of Russia.
Also likely spikes the cost of energy, and thereby Russian energy profits, beyond where they already are.
There is significant potential down side however, so it’s a gamble.
Not unlike the use of CV-19 to suspend practice of the “Bill of Rights”, and to demolish the Trump economy, and demolish the US election system, to bring about the desired outcome of removing Trump.
Who by design crushed the Russian and Chinese economies, and near terminally interrupted the Chinese plan to take and control the Western Pacific region (what we used to refer to as China 25’).