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I sympathize but this is still better than direct war. The alternative is what -- allow Putin to run roughshod over Ukraine and expand his capacity to imperil our security?

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Lots of options available to us. We just hit the nuclear economic warfare button - they are going to hit back hard and in many ways. Expect, at the very least, a lot of hacking security disruptions. Russia won't hold back anymore if we squeeze them like this. A trapped animal is the most dangerous one.

>Lots of options available to us

Can you enumerate some of them?

Literally everything is possible - do you seriously want me to enumerate all the different possibilities to attack and/or pressure Russian interests by the US?

Russia is the new sick man of Europe, ironically enough given the old Russian empire used the term originally to describe the aging Ottoman empire. They seem to be the only ones that can't see it.

They don't have anything that anyone particularly wants anymore. Germany can switch to LNG. USA is net energy positive these days (although the shale might only last another 10-15 years). And finally nukes just aren't worth that much with MAD.

> Lots of options available to us.

And yet you present none.

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