The sad likely outcome is Russia will kill enough people in Ukraine until they submit. Russia has a long history of indiscriminate massive violence, even agains

The sad likely outcome is Russia will kill enough people in Ukraine until they submit. Russia has a long history of indiscriminate massive violence, even against its own. What do we do about it? In my view Russia is outside the U.N. charter and Geneva Convention, the multilateral system for peaceful resolution of disputes. And they should not profit at all until they leave every inch of Ukraine and pay restitution. Until they do that, they are out of the the global free trade system. Sanctions should be a complete and total. And it will take time to get there because the spigot can't be turned off over night. By extension I think it is necessary to completely cut off from global free trade any country that continues to to business with Russia. Every single dollar I spend on a product in country A or B who then does business with Russia, is a resource in the pocket of Putin to drop bombs on Ukrainians today and Europe, or even America, tomorrow. His word is worth less than nothing. He has renegged on all of the most important international agreements of this time. We have to stop looking for cheap oil and gas as the excuse for weakening the best thing the world has invented so far, however imperfect it is. And that's our obligations under the agreements signed after the last world wars. No amount of profit and comfort is worth that. This is lost on too many people who think it is. They think it's acceptable to come out on top and it will be just the peons who will suffer, and that's OK with them. Well FUCK those people.