re: #202 jc717

No doubt it would hurt Russia as well, but probably not as much as international backlash against a military intervention.

I disagree. Natural gas sales are too important for Russia to risk. Putin would accept the backlash if he had to, and frankly, in Europe the backlash wouldn’t be too bad. Most of Central and Western Europe* relies on Russian natural gas and that places a limit on how much they push back.

*: The exception here is France, which gets most of its power from nuclear energy.