Putin won't bite that hook.
Probably not, but we aren't helping matters by sending troops to the Ukraine. If we piss him off enough, it's possible that Putin could play with the bait a little to draw the US out into a wider conflict and then step back and refocus on the Ukraine, reason being simply to put the Ukraine lower on American priorities list. It's the smart move and Putin is not a dumb man.
At the moment he's laying the smaketh down upon global economic infrastructure with the BRICS nations. I imagine he'll flip them the bird and chuckle a bit.
BRICS is a parallel drama unfolding that will encourage more bold action from Russia that it was possible in the days of the dollar hegemony. The stronger BRICS comes to resolution, the more strongly Russia and China will behave. We will have real changes in our trading partners Brazil and India when they become the rich and we become the poor. A whole other matter America could be protected from today but for sheer stupidity.
I don't think there is any way to avoid the red faces that some of our so called representative ones have envited upon themselves by way of nothing but pure geo-political amateurism.
Oh yes, justice will always balance in the end. It is an ontological imperative. For some it will be a little earlier, for others it will be a little later; but just as much as the sans-intervention destiny of the physical universe is heat death, the scales of justice are balanced as a force arising from existence itself. Some call it karma, our Lord taught about the Law of Sowing and Reaping. Justice can and will finish balancing after the soul has died. Which Is the point at which it becomes invisible to most, and just seems to contribute to the general malaise of the human race.
It's like the corrupt man reaping immediately what he has sown, but neither him nor anybody else remembers him having sown it, so they reap the corruption and cry out "why??" Stealing with the left hand while swearing integrity with the right, and thinking nothing wrong with that.
They reap it now, they reap it in a few years, or the reap it in the Judgement. Given a moments omniscience, I believe that every soul would rather reap the pain in this life than going into the next, because then it will be so much more magnified...
Wanting to see the bad people utterly humiliated in this life is actually a kindness to
them...on the eternal scale of things.
