>"I promise you we will be able to do it via sanctions and diplomacy" is an entirely comprehensible statement. 9/11 is an inside job is also a comprehensible t

>"I promise you we will be able to do it via sanctions and diplomacy" is an entirely comprehensible statement. 9/11 is an inside job is also a comprehensible threat. It doesnt mean it's realistic. The US can and did regularly make specific sanctions threats. This wasn't a sanctions threat it was a deliberately and overtly vague threat that he did not clarify even when clarification was demanded of him. There was no reason for Biden not to make specific sanctions threats while there is every reason for Biden to vaguely and covertly threaten an act of war. When the US makes a "nice pipeline you've got there be a shame if something happened to it" statement then hanlon's razor says that they're probably making a "nice pipeline you've got there would be a shame if something happened to it". When Putin makes this type of vague threat and a violent event results, his loyal supporters react much as you just did. This type of mentality is as common among loyal supporters of the Russian state as it is, I suppose, for similar reasons, among loyal supporters of the American state.