>...Every attempt to exert pressure has put the west in a less favourable position. There's a largest war started by russia (8 years ago!) and going on in the

>...Every attempt to exert pressure has put the west in a less favourable position. There's a largest war started by russia (8 years ago!) and going on in the middle of Europe with a threat of use of nuclear weapons. As evident by now, russia is uncapable of maintaining any trustworthy agreements with any other nation, let alone its neighbors. It openly laughs at any civilized rule of law principles and considers this a weakness. It may not seem that way on a distance, but this war is against the West, against its values, its societies, and its economies. The whole world already feels the blows. Russia is increasingly acting as a rabid dog. The 'anti-russian sentiment' is a product of its own making, not for the first time in its imperial history. How does one deal with a rabid dog that brought itself to your yard? Asking the dog to deescalate? Abandoning your yard? Letting the dog into the house? This dog is driven by a violent agony and the violence will eventually tear it apart. But meanwhile someone needs to fend it off and contain. Ukraine so far is fending the rabid russia with its own flesh and blood. The war is on. Can the world exert more pressure? Not dragging feet with delivering the offered weapons. Not diluting the sanctions. Not agreeing to buy the stolen grains or harboring the russian assets. Consolidating and be decisive against the aggressor instead of making this Yankees' business or, worse, let the rabies take over Ukraine...