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Originally Posted by Jets4Life
I say the USA should not overreact to Russian aggression in the Ukraine. However, if Russia starts to build up it's forces in the Baltic, and threaten Poland, Lithuania, and Latvia, the USA should threaten full-scale war with Russia.
Putin isn't stupid. He'll back down.
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He's not stupid enough to think the U.S./NATO would actually do it either though.
The only way Russia backs down is if they actually start to lose something.
Breaking them financially isn't easy these days because it's such a global economy. Europe, Asia and even North America would feel it.
Russia is full of hornets nest though (Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, Tatarstan, etc...), and if the U.S. and allies start to disturb those nests, they will have no choice but to reflect their projection of power inward.