wat0n wrote:But Biden is, isn't he? What else should he do in your view? :?:
For starters, STOP TALKING. His daily proclamations about sanctions show weakness. His daily chants are tantamount to "You're making us very very very very very very very very very very very very mad". (add one very each time).
Secondly, Nordstream should be off. Now. Next, there is leverage with SWIFT. Start turning the screws. There are a multitude of them. Russia has a weak economy. That can be used to our advantage.
Blinken is a frat boy and he looks like it. Move him aside. He doesn't project strength. That's especially bad when we have a weak-kneed sister as president who should be in retired in a rocking chair already.
Forget about the UN. Russia has veto power.
Finally, it should have never gotten this far. Had Biden not attacked energy in his first days in office with executive orders and continued to attack energy, we would even have more leverage. Had he not projected weakness by abandoning Afghanistan in the worst possible way, our adversaries would not have taken as much notice. But having China meet us in Alaska and then lecturing us on our home soil should have been your first clue how things were going to go. This is after DECADES of stealing our intellectual property through computer networks.
Elections have consequences. This is yet another one of many.
BTW, I think Putin turns his eyes to the Baltic states of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia next. Why not? He's getting what he wants with almost no resistance. Then what? Well, I'm sure this administration will be "very very very very very very very very very very very very very mad".