Russia’s president is massing troops on Ukraine’s border—over 70,000 of them, complete with supply lines and field hospitals. What can be done to de-escalate the situation?
Thirty years later Russia, the heir to the old Soviet Union, is once again in the business of interfering abroad. In Vladimir Putin, it is run by a man who splenetically regrets the dissolution of the. He has recently reasserted a large degree of influence over Belarus, after its election-rigging despot turned to him for help. And he is massing troops on Ukraine’s border—over 70,000 of them, complete with supply lines, field hospitals and the prospect of reinforcements.
Some are economic. Joe Biden, America’s president, spoke to Mr Putin on December 7th. Mr Biden says he threatened severe economic sanctions were Russia to attack Ukraine again. There is talk of cutting Russia off fromas it would disrupt other economies, and start a rush of autocratic regimes to find non-Western alternatives. The same deterrence could be achieved, with less collateral damage, by threatening to blacklist Russian financial institutions individually.
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