ANALYSIS: As Russian Pres. Putin's military forces invade the sovereign nation of Ukraine, many nations will look for ways to respond forcefully to immediately treat Russia as a pariah state on par with Bashar Assad's Syria and Kim Jung Un's North Korea.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the U.S. will sanction Vladimir Putin, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and members of the Russian national security team for their invasion of Ukrain, many nations will look for ways to respond forcefully to immediately treat Russia as a pariah state on par with Bashar Assad's Syria and Kim Jong Un's North Korea.
The U.S. is already working to implement severe sanctions. That's an important first step. The U.S. and its allies will look to isolate Russia economically, including by cutting Russia out of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication banking network and ensuring the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline remains off.
Further, the U.S. and its allies can stop issuing visas to Russian nationals. Russian citizens would not be permitted to travel into or through their countries. This travel ban will continue to demonstrate that the West will cut Russia off from the world until Putin abandons his conquest of Ukraine.People take part in a protest against Russia's military operation in Ukraine, in Times Square, in New York, Feb. 24, 2022.
Nonetheless, Putin controls one of the world's largest arsenal of nuclear weapons. The goal would be to not escalate to the point where U.S. and Russian forces are facing off. That said, the U.S. can provide military assistance to the democratically-elected Ukrainian government fighting off an invasion of their sovereign lands. The United States and its NATO allies can accordingly send additional arms immediately for Ukraine to fight off the invading Russian forces.
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