Fiona Hill

Putin has successfully spent years reducing Russia’s vulnerabilities to western pressure and leverage. At the same time, he has increased Russian leverage abroad, with investments in Europe and the U.S. And he has pretty much guaranteed we won’t introduce major sanctions because of the harm it will cause to all of our companies now doing business with Russia.

What can we do? We’ll talk about sanctions. We’ll talk about red lines. We’ll basically drive ourselves into a frenzy. And [Putin will] stand back and just watch it. He just knows that none of the rest of us want a war.