So you either: 1) War. This affects poor people, a lot. 2) Sanctions. This affects poor people, but at least bodies shouldn't pile up by the thousands. 3) Do

So you either: 1) War. This affects poor people, a lot. 2) Sanctions. This affects poor people, but at least bodies shouldn't pile up by the thousands. 3) Do nothing. It might work, but in this case it seems that it will affect millions of poor people in Ukraine, and just kick the problem four years into the future. I'd read a lot of "this sanctions affects the poor" lately, but I fail to see other alternatives that doesn't. I give you Russia is in a hard geopolitical position. But Europe in the last 70 years has been unusually calm. Russia had nothing to fear, but they spiralled into a mix of imperialist nostalgia and KGB paranoia. Small countries feared just that, and rushed into NATO, which fed the Kremlin paranoia... Is NATO crawling an enjoyable situation for Russia? No. But also Russia anexating and puppetering neighbors if they are not NATO members isn't the smartest move. Mexico and Canada doesn't live in fear of the US; Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia, and now even Finland and Moldova... not so much. You menctioned Cuba crisis: that crisis was solved negotiating, and the US dismantled what the soviets wanted. We don't even know what Putin wanted: ban Ukraine fron NATO? He would have got that negotiating. But right now, as they keep talking, it's clear that they want the old empire.