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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Yep, there are no moral victories when dealing with an aggressor on your own soil. History has shown that people like Putin won't stop until they suffer losses and sometimes that means fighting fire with fire.
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Honestly, I think this would have the opposite effect. It would unite the Russian people under Putin the same way it united the Ukrainian people just now. Any attack would be used as an "I told you so, Ukraine is dangerous", or a show that Ukraine is the one targeting civilian populations. Those news will most likely be spun in a way to benefit Putin.
Hell most of the Russian news are already us against the world. They just make it seem as though the west planned it all along. I wish there was an easy deterrent for Putin, but I don't see one. The only deterrent I could see would be one like the one during the Cuban missile crisis, where you threaten mutual annihilation if Russia doesn't retreat from Ukraine.