There is a way for Russia to punch themselves out, so that they do not pose a threat to others for a long time - expend their old Soviet arsenals, and impoverish themselves so they cannot afford a big military build up for ten or twenty years.
They are well down that road in Ukraine. NATO is getting Russia demilitarized for pennies on the dollar, relative to the cost of doing it in a direct war with Russia. Putin can’t disengage from that tar baby, and we can rope-a-dope him along, until Poland is a greater conventional military power than what is left of Russian forces.
“expend their old Soviet arsenals, and impoverish themselves so they cannot afford a big military build up for ten or twenty years.”
We’re doing this to ourselves too, expending our arsenals, and we’re piling up huge debt doing it. Pennies on the dollar? I wouldn’t call $60 billion “pennies”. I think you’re another foreigner warmongering for us to get involved.