While I would love the West to get in there and train Ukrainian soldiers, provide weapons, maybe even give some covert support, I really don't think this ends till we cripple Russia's economy. That's how the USSR broke.
Make it so babas have to wait 4 hours in the cold for a loaf of moldy bread. We'll see how much support Putin has then.
Dunno if that's entirely possible given the relationship they have with China, but you gotta think that right now, we are only preventing a further march west through the Ukraine at best if we start arming them. And even then, it's going to be very costly in both lives and money.
Isolate Russia in the world. Putin is a proud man. Yeah he'll dig in for a while, but it's been shown he wants to be on the world stage. Take away the G8, the World Cup, whatever you can. Then, make their citizens poor.
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