I think we had a real opportunity to impose actual consequences in 2014. But we didn't want to stick up for Ukraine then, and our cohesion on even the meager sanctions we implemented waned in the years before 2022. We needed to be more blunt about Russia's aims then.
I think we had a real opportunity to impose actual consequences in 2014. But we didn't want to stick up for Ukraine then, and our cohesion on even the meager sanctions we implemented waned in the years before 2022. We needed to be more blunt about Russia's aims then.
I think we had a real opportunity to impose actual consequences in 2014. But we didn't want to stick up for Ukraine then, and our cohesion on even the meager sanctions we implemented waned in the years before 2022. We needed to be more blunt about Russia's aims then.