No magnets. No Tomahawks.
Note Tulsi has declared Putin will not seek to take Europe.
And there’s another powerful situation — he won’t seek to take all of Ukraine either, because Ukraine has accumulated huge debt. A pro Russia govt in Kiev would still owe that money.
There is no such thing as a sovereign bankruptcy court. There are no sovereign defaults. There are only agreements with creditors. Nothing else expunges the money.
So optimally, Putin will take vast expanses of Ukraine land and leave Kiev and maybe some small amounts in the west — to still owe all that money. As long as he has everything west of Dnipro, the Caspian oil fields are safe.
He will keep the power plant and . . . Odessa is a question mark. But be all that as it may be, have no doubt that the enormous accumulated Ukraine debt is not something Russia wants to assume.