Whenever the actual fighting stops, keep every possible sanction on them. End flyover rights, end cultural/scientific/educational visas for Russians, etc.. If they don't want to play nice with other kids, then let them play with themselves.
Well, if you are correct, then we should maximize whatever opportunity remains to wreck Russia by proxy. Start sending over more anti-ship missiles, etc.. Then do whatever else we can to cripple them economically.
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Reality- Russia is in need of nothing, food, grain, commodities, metals, NG, diesel, gas, energy, rare earths, noble gas, etc…they have what the west needs. They are major exporters in every sector. I bet you also think the Ukies are winning?
Since you are being civil this time, I’ll go through your comments one-by-one:
“Well, if you are correct, then we should maximize whatever opportunity remains to wreck Russia by proxy.”
As long as Ukrainians don’t mind dying for a hopeless cause, then sure, why not, since that means that they don’t even value their own lives.
“Start sending over more anti-ship missiles, etc.”
We can, but we’re already way down from our relatively tiny inventory that we started with. I believe between 25% and 33% of those types of items are gone, and it will take at least two years to replace them (since we didn’t see a need to keep production lines open). As I said early this evening, Just-in-Time is great for VCRs, not so great for military hardware.
“Then do whatever else we can to cripple them economically.”
We’ve already proven that we are perfectly capable of crippling ourselves with ‘sanctions’, as Russia is literally doing a bit better now, economically, than at the start of the war, while energy prices are going through the roof in the West. Russia even restarted their Lada production line, but without the bells and whistles that drive up the US price to $42k (average) now. There’s is FAR CHEAPER...and Boeing just closed down 737 Max production, as they’re out of Russian-supplied Titanium.
“Whenever the actual fighting stops, keep every possible sanction on them.”
It’s more likely that when the fighting stops that Europe will be starving and freezing, and will come begging to Moscow to re-start their pipelines. The price that Europe will pay for this service will be very simple - removal of the US military, no more NATO (yet another Trump victory, by the way).
End flyover rights, end cultural/scientific/educational visas for Russians, etc.
I actually agree on the cultural/scientific/educational visas, as these date back well into the Cold War when the Soviets would come here to learn Nuclear and other engineering, but we would go over there and only be allowed to learn Russian history and language.
As to flyovers, considering their size, we get FAR MORE from them than they do from us...yet another case of us shooting ourselves in the foot.