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As dryheat said a year from now this war is over. How it ends and what come after need to be thought through carefully. We have confidence that Russian people not enthusiastic about this but those same people have otherwise had little problem with Putin.
The temptation is to use our military resources to sweep the Russians off of the battlefield. That might stop one problem but it creates another, in that we will have proved Putin right to his own people. So far Putin is losing the narrative battle on the war's cause and justification, and it is only if he loses that battle--if Russia accepts responsibility for what it is doing--that we can hope for a better Russian policy on the far side.
Stories like this then, of Republicans complaining that America isn't doing enough, are useful in that they reinforce the idea that we're staying out of the direct fight.
Is the West staying completely out combat? I think we'll know the answer to that by if and how the fronts stabilize. Humanitarian disasters unfolding might force the West's hand.
Going forward, we need to stop fighting about petroleum. Seems like going forward it'll be:
Nuclear power or nuclear war--pick one!
The temptation is to use our military resources to sweep the Russians off of the battlefield. That might stop one problem but it creates another, in that we will have proved Putin right to his own people. So far Putin is losing the narrative battle on the war's cause and justification, and it is only if he loses that battle--if Russia accepts responsibility for what it is doing--that we can hope for a better Russian policy on the far side.
Stories like this then, of Republicans complaining that America isn't doing enough, are useful in that they reinforce the idea that we're staying out of the direct fight.
Is the West staying completely out combat? I think we'll know the answer to that by if and how the fronts stabilize. Humanitarian disasters unfolding might force the West's hand.
Going forward, we need to stop fighting about petroleum. Seems like going forward it'll be:
Nuclear power or nuclear war--pick one!