President Biden has done well reasserting our strong connection with NATO and the EU, and thereby building the united opposition to Russia's attempt at a new empire.
Russia's attempt at empire is created largely in the vacant space, where a brain might exist, of Putin's head. However, Putin needs the support of the kleptocrats (Russian, aristocrat wannabes)...
President Biden has worked with NATO and the EU to begin cutting off Putin, and the kleptocrats, from the money they'd stolen from Soviet industry and people during the USSR's collapse. Money kept in foreign currencies (largely US dollars, outside of Russia) because the Ruble is barely worth the paper it's printed on.
Putin's largest problem in waging his war is losing the support of the kleptocrats.
If Putin proceeds with a war against Ukraine, Russia will suffer the kind of annihilation Iraq incurred during the liberation of Kuwait. The war will injure and kill many Russian and Ukrainian people (military and civilian)...
Hurting the purses of the kleptocrats sufficiently to give the megalomaniacal sociopath, that is Putin, large problems at home is the only, nearly, bloodless way to end this empire building folly.
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