“he should pull the trigger on that “mother of all sanctions” he has promised before”
Biden’s tepid response is allowing Russia to invade and they will eventually illegally annex the Donbass.
This Sudetenland necklace will hang on Biden forever. He will be known for appeasing Putin and the Dems are going to lose the Midterm Elections is epic fashion.
Putin is recognizing the democratic choice of two Ukrainian oblasts that are heavily Russian and have already voted to secede from Kiev. This foreign entanglement is none of our business. We should proceed with caution, because economic warfare is warfare nonetheless - and justification for an escalated response from the injured target.
NATO wants Ukraine to complete its encirclement of Russia and choke its access to the Black Sea, and Moscow recognizes this as an existential threat. If we persist, Russia will have no choice but to fight, and will use every weapon at its disposal to defend a border that is only 300 miles from Moscow. We should never start a fight that isn't worth losing, because victory is seldom easy and never assured. Russia's only military advantage is nuclear.