Russia is coming closer and closer to pushing into the Ukraine. White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan, speaking on different Sunday news programs, said Russia could be days away from invading, a prospect that could result at an “enormous human cost.”
Russia remains one of the few national powers willing to use military might to achieve its ends. Russian President Vladimir Putin knows there are few forces with the power and the will to stop him.
NATO is unlikely to take action, since the Ukraine is not in the alliance. The U.S., after two decades of war in the Middle East, is not particularly inclined to put troops in the Ukraine. The few thousand troops the U.S. has sent the past week into eastern Europe is more symbolic than a real deterrent.
President Joe Biden has warned Putin of the economic and diplomatic consequences of a Ukrainian invasion. Putin has been weighing the cost, and it looks like it’s a price he is willing to pay.
Military force is the one thing Putin understands, and it looks like he is the only one willing to wage it at this time.
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