{"id":50885,"date":"2022-03-12T22:14:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T22:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50885"},"modified":"2022-03-12T22:14:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T22:14:57","slug":"what-else-can-we-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50885","title":{"rendered":"What else can we do?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">President Biden is putting Vladimir Putin on notice: If the Russians deploy chemical weapons on Ukrainians fighting Russians in defense of their country, they will face \u201csevere consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, I don\u2019t expect the president to divulge what those consequences will entail before implementing them in the event the Russians resort to that hideous tactic. However, I am curious as to what precisely the United States can do to Russia that is more severe than what it has done already \u2026 short of launching a military counterattack.<\/p>\n<p>Biden is adamant that U.S. forces will not engage Russians on the battlefield. So that\u2019s not an option. At least that is my hope.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s next? What can we do? I am not in a position to speculate. Closing down our embassy in Moscow won\u2019t amount to more than spitting into the wind. Kicking every Russian citizen out of this country won\u2019t matter, either.<\/p>\n<p>It appears to me that we already have levied\u00a0<em>severe consequences\u00a0<\/em>on Russia for its unprovoked aggression against a neighboring\u00a0<em>sovereign<\/em>\u00a0nation. Russian currency is worthless; Russians can\u2019t export their oil to many nations that consume it; Russian assets are frozen around the world; Biden has delivered stern notice that an attack on any NATO nation will ignite a third world war.<\/p>\n<p>I am not going to say that a chemical attack is coming simply because there is nothing else we can do to punish Putin and his thuggish partners in the Kremlin. I just hope that whatever President Biden has up his sleeve is going to matter and that Putin might be able to regret the next move he might want to take.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden is putting Vladimir Putin on notice: If the Russians deploy chemical weapons on Ukrainians fighting Russians in defense of their country, they will face \u201csevere consequences.\u201d Now, I don\u2019t expect the president to divulge what those consequences will entail before implementing them in the event the Russians resort to that hideous tactic. However, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50885\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What else can we do?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7910,5],"tags":[942,1511,2505,4050,9899,5125],"class_list":["post-50885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-news","category-international-news","tag-chemical-weapons","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-joe-biden","tag-russia","tag-ukraine-war","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50886,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50885\/revisions\/50886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}