It seems to me that the West's most effective response would be economic in nature. The fragility of the Russian stock market is evident if it fell over 10% merely out of concern in re: the potential for conflict as a result of all of this nonsense. I would think that harsh economic sanctions could be devastating... but am not an expert.
Not talked about enough, imo, in comparison to potential military responses which seem unlikely to happen or to produce any good result for the US and other Western countries if they did.
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