Yes, letting the Ukraine related sanctions chronically fester is a tremendous strategic error.
The benefits of leverage are dramatically maximized and reinforced by using them as little as possible, on the fewest targets as possible, for the shortest intervals possible, to obtain the most decisive results as possible.
Helping an ally interminably not lose on the battlefield (instead of supporting a win), is also a leverage destroying strategic error. There goes significant deterrence.
And to triple down, the US has expanded its sanctions (er, tariffs) to all its enemies (uh, trading partners), giving everyone strong signals that no relief is coming, other than to back away from the US.
Leverage that took a couple centuries to achieve is hemorrhaging.
The benefits of leverage are dramatically maximized and reinforced by using them as little as possible, on the fewest targets as possible, for the shortest intervals possible, to obtain the most decisive results as possible.
Helping an ally interminably not lose on the battlefield (instead of supporting a win), is also a leverage destroying strategic error. There goes significant deterrence.
And to triple down, the US has expanded its sanctions (er, tariffs) to all its enemies (uh, trading partners), giving everyone strong signals that no relief is coming, other than to back away from the US.
Leverage that took a couple centuries to achieve is hemorrhaging.
And we are living in a Kurt Vonnegut novel.