It entirely rests upon how much damage can be inflicted upon Putin's new (10-15 years old, but really just being birthed with this invasion), aggressively expansive Russian Empire.
If you say a lot, then the ROI can be very high.
Russia formally has a new Stalin, a new Tsar, whatever you want to title him with. And the world should act accordingly. Putin will have to kill a lot of people domestically from here on out if he's moving into Empire mode, because the situation will get messy very fast and there will be real domestic opposition and he'll strongly dislike that.
Russia is a leper again.
And besides this, we should be defending the new, fragile democracy in Ukraine, on a moral basis. They're our friends and they want our help.
If you say a lot, then the ROI can be very high.
Russia formally has a new Stalin, a new Tsar, whatever you want to title him with. And the world should act accordingly. Putin will have to kill a lot of people domestically from here on out if he's moving into Empire mode, because the situation will get messy very fast and there will be real domestic opposition and he'll strongly dislike that.
Russia is a leper again.
And besides this, we should be defending the new, fragile democracy in Ukraine, on a moral basis. They're our friends and they want our help.