How to stop Putin’s Ukraine push

As the Ukraine crisis deepens, there is only one option that can stop a Russian invasion — and that is the one that all serious Washington players say is off the table: sending an American and coalition force to defend Ukraine. Vladimir Putin is not ready for war with America; informed his gamble was a well-founded conviction that the United States was not sufficiently committed to Ukraine to defend it by force.

History may look back at this as a nerve failure equivalent to the placidity of the 1930s. Britain and France considered war a utopia until it became inevitable. With troops off the table, the Biden administration hopes to impose a series of economic sanctions and political consequences (up to arming the Ukrainian rebels) enough to warn Putin to stay away. intended prey.