"Their grip on the country is waning as is, what do we do?. Real tough call."
Not that tough a call, a gasoline embargo until the soldiers return would be pretty effective.
"Not that tough a call, a gasoline embargo until the soldiers return would be pretty effective."
How will Russia and China respond to an embargo? When you say "embargo", I'm not sure where that lies on the spectrum between boycott (choosing not to buy for oneself) and blockade (physically preventing anyone from transporting).
The hardest part of this for me is figuring out the "if We.. the They..." statements. It's like 3-D chess, only with millions of lives. I hope we make the right move, and it's decisive. Just wish I was confident about what it is.
(P.S. Rereading this, I'm reminded of my only favorite New Yorker cartoon, in which the wife stands there with the newspaper in front of her husband, and says, " You took out a full-page ad in the Times to say that you're CONFUSED?")