I'm thinking that a way to escalate our response to Putin, without actually fighting him, is to build a "green war machine". Start a crash project to research, develop, and deliver the technology to liberate our european allies from their energy dependencies on russian oil and gas. And everyone else as a side effect.
That this is all stuff that we *cough* should be doing anyway is bonus content. But what we can't seem to do for the "right" reasons might be easily done as a way to thwart an enemy who is so successfully making himself the most reviled man of our age. Longer term, the economic effects of the sanctions, the social effects of the ukrainian refugee crisis, and the demoralization of watching brute force in action are going to hurt our side a lot. That may be Putin's actual endgame for the "operation" while he pretends to be Trump. Better to be doing something positive than to be waiting around to see how it turns out. -- rec --
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