where in one or two years we would still be funding this war effort for vladimir putin. you know, richard, we re going to have to have a discussion about how we want to help the europeans. we want the europeans off of russian oil. we can deal with the saudis which people find offensive. we can increase our capabilities, our refineries in the united states which progressives find offensive. there s not there s no easy way to do this. joe biden is going to have to face down progressives in his own party and stop the virtue signaling and twitter start up stop the virtue signaling if they want to stop the spread of putinism across europe. it s actually less oil and coal. oil and coal are what they call fungible. the russians have found other places to export, to india, to
way that we re helping shape the battlefield geometry in ukraine s favor. but of course, eu and the membership in the european alliance is an important signal as well, because it showcases that over time, ukraine is going to be integrated economically and politically with the nations of europe and as i think richard stengel pointed out exactly right, shows they re not going to be vacuumed up into the orbit of putinism and russia. rick, have you been surprised by how russia has been able to withstand both the economic sanctions and the military battlefield dynamics so to speak where we re dragging on to four and a half months of this war, i believe? and yet, it doesn t seem that there s an end in sight. yes, ayman, it s a little disappointing, and part of it has to do with the global dependence on oil, russia s supply of oil, russia is also a
Prosecuting a leader like Vladimir Putin accused of war crimes is difficult. But the trial of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic in the early 2000s offers a potential playbook.