re: #98 Dr Lizardo

He may be fine in the short-time; but the West needs to look at more long-term efforts to yet again contain Russia and it’s neo-imperial aspirations. Economic isolation is more difficult now, but it can be done if there’s the will to do it, and in my little part of the world, there certainly is. It’s a matter of convincing the Germans to go along with it, and it can be done. The wildcard is the Brits - the City loves them some sweet, sweet Russian oligarch money.

It would truly be ironic if the only thing needed for Russia to do as it pleases vs. the West is for their oligarchs to effectively bribe western oligarchs.