I've pointed out before that most of Asia doesn't support our foreign policy.
But now we have a number because someone did the math.

Denial can be a useful coping mechanism, but when taken to an extreme it just gets sad.
People living in the middle east are dumbfounded at the ability of Americans to convince themselves that we actually have a moral high ground when talking about Russia's war in Ukraine.

The first thing you've got to ask is "How much pain will the sanctions inflict?"
Will they absolutely crush Russia's economy, or just throw it into recession? The correct answer is closer to the latter than the former.

Sanctions don't have a great track record for making political change possible. Just look toward Cuba as an example.

Yesterday I pointed out how the Biden Administration is now talking to the legitimate government of Venezuela, a government that Washington doesn't actually recognize, in order to get their oil flowing again.
Today the spin started.

Technically the U.S. still considers Juan Guaidó the President of Venezuela, despite the fact that he never even ran for the office of President, nor holds an elected office of any kind, and only has a 15% approval rating.