Washington's Newest Worry: The Dangers of Cornering Putin

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17. I hope the closed doors in Langley are hiding some serious clandestine Kremlin activity.

The best and safest tactic is not to wait until Putin is frothing at the mouth wondering whether to first nuke Paris or London. The best outcome--for Russia, too, by the way--would be for Putin to be replaced by his own inner circle (method of their choosing), and for his successor to use the occasion of being the "new kid in town" to immediately cease all hostile activity in and against the Ukraine. All hostile troops recalled, Lukashenko gagged and chained, negotiations on Crimea, and the two "people's (yeah, right) republics" being restored to Ukrainian sovereignty.

Then--immediate work on getting sanctions removed, commerce restored, and Russians and Americans can jointly celebrate the formal end of the dark, awful Trump-Putin era.