Comment by DannyBee
2 days ago
If you aren't willing to move to conflict (or whatever the next step is) at some point, then you are, in fact, just bluffing, and you are being called out on that bluff.
You can choose what that point is, but it's weird not to expect enemies to continually test where your line is, and walk you right up to it.
I'm not sure what you expect to see here?
Let's assume for a second armed conflict is the "natural" next step.
Either you are willing to get into an armed conflict over it or not. If you aren't, and they are willing to accept everything other than armed conflict (sanctions, etc), why should they care at all what you think or do? They already know you won't escalate past a certain point. As long as they are willing to accept how far you are willing to escalate, ....
In the end, people monitor actions, not words.
And how much of Russia's puffed up chest and militaristic culture is America's fault?
You edged them during your whole cold war thing & now you got a headache and want the neighbours to take care of it.
This seems 100% irrelevant to the question of "what more can be done".
I'm totally unsure why this is directed at me.
russia has been invading and committing genocide since day 1 of its existence, starting with Genghis Khan:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis_Khan
Russia existed before mongol invasion (Ghenghis Khan was from Mongolia, and not Russian). For example, one of great Russian kings hanged his shield on the gates of the capital of Eastern Roman Empire, the city of Konstantinople in 10th century (it was located where modern Istambul is, but the shield sadly isn't there anymore).