So we are supposed to ignore the Russian crimes against humanity?
I think the point is that we are weaponizing money, which hurts the ordinary citizens, while we are exempting Russian oil and continuing to enrich the oligarchs.
Russia is an oil economy like Saudi Arabia, so it makes no sense to keep oil off the table. Biden has tougher sanctions on U.S. oil than on Russian oil.
An excellent idea. Just as should have been done with Saddam, Former Yugoslavia, and most clearly Somalia Shit hole
Atrocity screaming is a great tool of deflection and for sanctimonious hysteria mongers to feel important and morally superior in an almost sexual way.
Those strongly about the purported crimes against what ever should hurry to the scene of the horror and take up arms against the forces of evil and leave the rest of to mind our own business.
The more important problem is Russia may have won before they started and most Western leaders do not realize or want to admit it. Putin's objective may not have been to go fast and take all of Ukraine as initially thought. If the real plan was to slow, take what they are getting, then negotiate, Putin is winning. The West is blindly reacting without any unified leadership or plan.
Which ones?
Before you list "war crimes" look back at our last 20 years in Iraq, Afghanistan or Lybia/Syria. Civilians deaths, thermobaric bombs, cluster munitions (maybe)... when Americans or our allies kill civilians, it's a mistake... but when Putin does it.. it's a war crime.
If we demand Putin go to prison or kill him, you and our leadership fails to thing about what a man will do if he has nothing left to lose..... he has nukes.