http://www.christiantoday.com/article/over.280.russian.orthodox.priests.call.for.end.to.russian.in

"CP) More than 280 priests and deacons of the Russian Orthodox Church are calling for reconciliation and an immediate end to Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine, stressing that "the Last Judgement awaits all."

"We mourn the ordeal to which our brothers and sisters in Ukraine were undeservedly subjected," the Russian Orthodox clerics wrote in an open letter, which was launched Tuesday and had garnered signatures of 284 priests, archpriests and deacons by Sunday morning.

At least 351 civilians have been killed and another 707 wounded in Ukraine since Russia's military invasion began on Feb. 24, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said Saturday, adding that the actual numbers are likely to be "considerably higher," Reuters reported."

The West, like a 16 year old schoolgirl, thought that it could dispense with force and power; Putin knows that that is not right, and he has a $500 billion war chest to prove it.

We spend peanuts, and our 'leaders' chunter on about mythical international law and universal human rights, stupidly believing that other people and cultures think the same as we do. They do not.

The US has banned Russian energy imports and will lift sanctions on Venezuela.
http://www.reuters.com/business/oil-see-saws-near-14-yr-highs-us-weighs-russia-oil-embargo-2022-03-08/
http://www.wsj.com/articles/venezuela-agrees-to-restart-negotiations-with-u-s-backed-opposition-11646756236

Our defence spending in 1920-21 was $7.82 billion while subsidies for the fossil fuel industry were $10.3 billion so it's clear where our priorities lie.

Meanwhile it's unlikely that Russia will resort to using nukes because it would be suicide but the number of false alarm nuclear accidents in the USSR, USA and Israel since the end of WW2 is frightening. One of those was due to NATO exercises during the 1980s simulating an invasion of the USSR which the Russians suspected was a cover for a real invasion and put their missiles on alert.

I think starving their economy is the only sensible and safest option.
In the end it probably won't be the Russian economy under threat but the personal fortunes of Putin and various supporting oligarchs that will make a difference.

Fuel in Russia after the sanctions is AUD 70c a litre.
http://youtu.be/c77JgJcrO9s

Sanctions against Russia are really working in the West, where Americans are paying the equivalent of $3 for a litre of petrol, and we in Australian are paying over $2 in some cases - with the cost of food and essentials, all carried by trucks, sky-rocketing in proportion.