Uh, what? > Don't deceive yourself that this is some step in a principled fight. If it were that, we'd have slapped tariffs/embargoes and more on Russia a coup

Uh, what? > Don't deceive yourself that this is some step in a principled fight. If it were that, we'd have slapped tariffs/embargoes and more on Russia a couple of years ago. We'd be implementing measures against Venezuela, Myanmar, North Korea, a whole host of countries doing similar or worse. I haven't heard a peep about those. We have been doing that. It has been widely covered by every major media outlet in the West for years, including: NY Times, Washington Post, Reuters, AP, BBC, NPR, Fox, ABC, NBC, CBS, Sky News, Bloomberg, and on it goes. There is a massive US economic blockade effort against North Korea, and the North Koreans have been flipping out about it 24/7 for years. It has been in the news non-stop for years in relation to North Korea. The US has been routinely conflicting with China about maintaining their side of the enforcement related to that effort. In fact, the US economic blockade of North Korea has caused so much damage to their country, it has prompted cannibalism inside of North Korea and at times risked mass famine. If anything the US should probably consider backing off its extreme blockade of North Korea, rather than risk pushing them into actual widespread famine, given their instability and nuclear weapons. The US has crushed the Iranian economy with its economic blockade on them, reducing oil exports by 80-90%. It sent inflation skyrocketing and prompted mass civilian revolt, which then prompted the Iranian Government to murder thousands of protestors in 2019. The US has recently come close to military conflict to enforce its economic blockade against Venezuela and its energy industry. The US economic blockade of Venezuela has destroyed their energy industry, bringing their energy exports to barely a trickle. That also has been very widely in the news. And the US has heavily sanctioned Russia, along with going very far out of its way to try to harm Russia's energy interests, eg by trying to stop Nord Stream 2. In fact the US has been borderline belligerent on that matter, coming close to pissing off its European allies in the process.