Which should be done anyway. But yea, that is something we could do. Totally agree. I just see it as insanity to threaten Russia from a position of impotence.
But then a war would wipe out a lot of debt and messy constitutional stuff...
I’m finding myself a little stymied by my ignorance; don’t really know Ukraine’s pre-1917 status. Was it part of czarist Russia? I’ll say this, of the long excerpt I put in above from Churchill , the last line is the most salient for us in 2014. Then we can can have the confidence of the moral authority that did inspire the bloodless revolutions of the early 90’s in the USSR and even put the Chinese students in Tianamen Square with their replicas of the Statue of Liberty.