Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Of course one should be looking for opportunities to de-escalate something that is having an enormous cost in human lives, but … one has to be careful not to blame oneself for escalation when this is obviously a horror that has been launched by Putin
A conversation about how Russia might respond to U.S. sanctions.
Anna Ohanyan, Professor of Political Science, discusses the latest on Ukraine as President Biden amps up sanctions on Russia.
U.S. President Biden has announced new sanctions against Russia. How will the Kremlin react?
Now after such an extraordinary escalation you have to show extraordinary results, impressive results. The Kremlin didn't get these impressive results, so he has to show the force and he has to react convincingly.
once Russia commits its military power into Ukraine, the United States can share operational intelligence, it can help Ukraine with cyber, it can sanction, it can beef up NATO's eastern flank, and it can conduct supply operations to Ukraine's military.
The question is which constituency is Mr. Putin trying to appeal to with the prospect of a false flag, accusation of genocide in Donbass, and all the things Blinken laid out at the UN. It's certainly not the West he's aiming at, it's his own domestic constituency.
Putin has reviewed what has been achieved with the backing of military force, and he has decided the US has produced something which is diplomatically and politically very worthwhile.