What does the "right measure of economic and other action" mean?
States don't maintain their power by exhausting their strength on battles with (near) peer competitors or lost causes. I'm perfectly content with writing off Crimea if that preserves U.S. interests elsewhere. Until there's a way around Russia's nuclear arsenal, large standing army, and political position in institutions like the U.N., negotiating with Russia is a fact of life.Anything but a confrontation with Russia, right?
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