Walter Shapiro: “Politics still stops at the water’s edge, but that’s because Americans don’t care about foreign policy unless U.S. troops are under fire. Voters would probably barely notice if Biden’s threats of sanctions helped convince Putin to take an off-ramp and slowly withdraw his troops from Ukraine’s borders.”
“It is possible that the threat of enhanced economic sanctions by America and our European allies might end up deterring Putin. That said, whatever the slow-moving Congress does on its own Russian sanctions will probably have about as much effect as putting an angry message in a bottle and dropping it in the Black Sea.”
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