[riehwvfbk]

"Here, we'll hurt you so you'll go fight the guy who claims he's the only one protecting you from us."

Has that strategy ever worked?

[Wytwwww]

South Africa? Rhodesia?

But sure.. usually it doesn't really work out.

Of course weakening the target country economically, politically and militarily is still better than nothing,

[wiseowise]

Russians had every opportunity to kick out nuclear gnome before sanctions kicked in, but alas.

[tryauuum]

western people had plenty of time to stop buying russian oil after the Crimea was stolen in 2014, but alas, they wanted to sponsor russian military and police so badly