Yes, outright shutting down credit cards, banks, removing jobs, cutting off goods shipments, and things that literally only target the population are "the only card left to play". Foolish.
You think Visa pulling out, or Netflix going offline, does anything against the Russian government? Please. You think the Russians are going to end up to revolting because the west brazenly and openly makes their lives harder? Again, that tactic has always worked out that way in the past. I can't think of any horrific nationalist movements that arose out of out of control financial and quality of life penalties put on a population.
Letting Europe handle it, as they should have been doing all along. Instead, they increased their own reliance on Russia and here they are. All-out warfare on the Russian population is short-sighted and idiotic as has that tactic been all through history.
Bombing Ukrainian citizens and cutting off their supply routes along with a few dead Ukrainian soldiers and the people might just get enough of all of it and give in.
We were in some theoretical danger. Afghanistan was bin laden which was a real threat. Iraq, Syria, Libya was all vague terrorism/wmd bs. Enough to justify full invasions? Not in my opinion.
Color me unworried by the global threat of a Russian military that apparently abandons its functional fighting equipment all over the place mid-invasion. Europe is welcome to, and should be, leading the effort in Ukraine. If France and Germany wish to send soldiers into Ukraine to fight, more power to them. If they want to continue to escalate arms, or enforce a no-fly zone, then more power to them. The US's job is not to lead a regional conflict thousands of miles away, just like it wasn't our job to invade Iraq or provide arms to terrorists in Syria.
Because I'm sitting here watching washed up old clowns like yourself and the majority of our government crap away any financial stability that will be present for myself or my future children over blown-up pandemics, wars we don't belong in in any way, spending on idiocy, hyped-up news media ********, and wholesale acceptance of ****ing tweets minutes after talking about how twitter is irrelevant for news. You wonder why I'm mad? Because I am watching hypocrites, again like yourself, pretend to blast the government and the corporatocracy then willingly turn around, suck up their propaganda, and favor involvement in a conflict that has nothing to do with the United States. And then you come in here and give the old "RuSsIaNs CaN't EaT mCdOnAlD's" argument, which you know is an outright lie.
