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Agree with your sentiments, but the West needed to do something about him long time ago. But noone wanted to bear the costs of it, so, this is what it become. You should treat cancer in an early stage even if the operation is dangerous and costly, not wait until it will grow and kill you.

Yes, basically this is the main reason: Putin did not get love and respect from Western leaders so, he wanted them to be scared of him.

Biden and Western leaded are a bunch of greedy cowards!!! Not only they will not establish no-fly zone over Ukraine or put actual American solders on the ground, the even did not include Sberbank in the list of banks they cut from SWIFT because they need it to pay for Russian oil and gas that...

But that chimpanzee has nukes. And since the gentlemen refused to to help the chimpanzee be like human and made it clear that it is a chimpanzee, the chimpanzee got angry and shows that at some areas (military) it is as good as a gentlemen with much less to lose. So, the gentlemen is scared now...

True. But what I am saying is that USA wanted the relationship with Russia to follow a model "I will take your opinion in consideration but will do what I want anyway" while Russia wanted equal partnership. Since Russia was not allowed into the "club", Putin decided to take another approach: "if...

If the majority of people cares about others, then majority will keep masking when it will be optional, so, it is OK to drop the mandates. I am just using your assumptions and common logic.

I want to disagree about the 'friends" staff. USA was willing to be a "distant friend" but did not allow Russia to be a close friend. In 1990s Russia wanted to join NATO but was not allowed in: USA were not willing to share NATO secrets with Russia. For many year Russia wanted to have "no visa"...

Russian leaders do not step down or got replaced through election :)

Actually, so far the rouble depreciation was that big: from 75 RUB per USD to 105, so, about 40%. In 1998 it changed from 7 RUP per USD to 21 (i.e., 300%) in less then a month. But there is still time...

I am Russian too and I believe the blame is on Putin and Putin alone, starting with Krymea in 2014. The only things Western leaders are guilty of is of not reacting 8 years ago and allowing Putin to do what he does. It continues with Litvinenko and Navalny. Putin see that he can do anything...

And if it will be OK next week, why not now? Why could not have restriction lifted immediately?

Not to worry, Putin uses soldiers from Chechnya who are happy to kill any number of Ukrainians (or Russians, if they would be allowed to). I know you "liberal" guys are all against racism and racial profiling, but I can assure you, if your are white, you do not want to meet Chechens with license...

Yes, but this (suicidal) is why Hitler was defeated by Russians, Belorussians, and Ukrainians (three largest nations in former USSR with common history and traditions). Ant the lack of it in Western culture is why Putin is winning and there is nothing West can do about it. For the West, 1% GDP...

You mean a professional one, like on stage and TV shows in the past, not a clown like Trump of Trudeau.

How about simply ignoring it and let it go down the list by itself. I know that my post contradicts my own advice :)

Of course it was "measured" to make sure ti will not affect neither Putin nor their own interests significantly. No cutting the SWIFT, no embargo on oil and gas, nothing that can seriously hurt Putin. Rouble gained more than half of it original losses, - this is your indicator of how effective...

According to Russian laws, Russian laws prevail over international laws :). But this topic is mute now due to invasion outside of DPR and LPR

Yes, and, as expected, the best course of action for the U.S. is strongly condemn, virtue signal through sanctions, and sell Ukraine. Like they did when Putin annexed Crimea 8 years ago.

I was born and raise in Soviet Union

So, basically, the West did nothing serious. They even failed to cut the SWIFT because it is too costly fro Germany and France. Basically, just tough talk for their own electorate and nothing that can have any significant effect on Putin: No personal sanctions against Putin, no freeze of...