If the West won’t war with Russia now, then when?

If the sickening invasion of Ukraine is not enough for the West to enter into direct war with Russia, it raises the inconvenient question of what possible terror the West is waiting for—or if it will never engage Putin directly.
The West claims to take a cautious approach towards engaging with Russia. 'Don't poke the bear.' But how is the U.S. President Joe Biden calling Vladimir Putin a 'war criminal' not poking the bear? That same message is pictured here, at a pro-Ukraine protest outside of the Russian embassy in Ottawa.
HALIFAX—Don’t poke the bear. In a nutshell, that has been the West’s ostensible approach to Russia’s sad and sickening invasion of Ukraine, now entering its fourth week. That is how countries like the United States, Canada, and many of their European allies justify not stopping Russian for...

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