Express News Service
Amidst the universal condemnation of Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine, and the derisive support for the young President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is a low key but firm reiteration by the US and NATO countries there will be no boots on the ground; nor will the West get directly involved with air strikes or forcing a no-fly zone over Ukraine. The fear of triggering a world war is real, and the learning from the disastrous war in Afghanistan is too fresh to make the same mistake again.
Instead the course opted for by the western coalition is the imposition of a raft of punishing economic sanctions on Russia. Economic sanctions are not new. But what the world is seeing for the first time is economic retaliation with precision and great coordination. The object is to damage the Russian economy to such a point that it becomes difficult for the Kremlin to conduct the war. Will the Western allies…
