“What do you think any US president could do at that point?”
A total embargo on trade and travel would be a good start. The pathetic piecemeal sanctions strategy has had an impact but shutting down all trade with Russia, sending their citizens back home, and making it clear we don’t do business with terrorist regimes would be a good start.
It would also send a message to China.
“What do you think any US president could do at that point?”
A total embargo on trade and travel would be a good start.
If that had happened in 2017, Russia would be in even better shape industrially for this war than it is is now.
There is also a lesson for the USA vis a vis China.
But NeoCons are too stupid to learn it. They are, after all, the people who want free trade and yet want eternal global wars that the de-industrialized economy can no longer support.