Nobody in Europe is willing to freeze in the winter because there no gas to heat his home.
I agree, Europe displayed a remarkable degree of moral cowardice. It is literally "we don't want to deal with a predator on our doorstep because we don't want to be cold."
The scenario where Putin loses in Ukraine is Russia being so screwed up by serious sanctions that there is regime change to something more moderate. But, as was well-covered elsewhere, the West lacks both the coordination and the moral spine to do serious sanctions.
Russia lost the Cold War, remember, because it did not have a functioning economy to stand on its own and compete in e.g. military spending against the West. It still does not.
The scenario where Putin loses in Ukraine is Russia being so screwed up by serious sanctions that there is regime change to something more moderate.
Sanction hurt both parties.
They also allow Putin to steal assets from Western countries that are located in Russia. The don't create moderation but basically make political life for every moderate in Russia harder.
But, as was well-covered elsewhere, the West lacks both the coordination and the moral spine to do serious sanctions.
I'm not sure whether from a moral perspective the kind of resources it wo...
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