• Russia under Vladimir Putin has many social and economic problems, but with its revitalized military, there is little the rest of the world can do to stop an invasion if its troops invade Ukraine.  | SPUTNIK / KREMLIN / VIA REUTERS
    Russia under Vladimir Putin has many social and economic problems, but with its revitalized military, there is little the rest of the world can do to stop an invasion if its troops invade Ukraine.  | SPUTNIK / KREMLIN / VIA REUTERS
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The world fears that Russian President Vladimir Putin is about to invade Ukraine, an act of naked aggression.

Many Westerners are rendered even more afraid by recognition that there is pathetically little they can do to stop him. No sane person believes that U.S. President Joe Biden — the only credible leader the Western democracies have — can or should threaten general war in response to such a Kremlin action.

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