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No, you show resolve and present a united face. You don't threaten, or allow the perception of a threat to exist. Nato doesn't threaten. It does the opposite. It deters threats. Putin wants to portray Russia as under threat from Nato to justify his actions and with his control over the media that is easy in his own country. Not so elsewhere. Nato needs to make its deterrent role abundantly clear and understood on the world stage. Eventually that message will also penetrate into Russia too. Nato must, and will, not allow a single foot of theirs to enter Ukraine in any kind of offensive way. You don't offer a glimmer of an excuse to Putin.

The individual Nato members supporting Ukraine with weapons is not an involvement of Nato. That message, that distinction, needs to be made all the time, everywhere. Putin's arguments need to be destroyed, alongside his army.

We then must be patient. The economic sanctions will take time and are hurting us as much as they hurt the Russians. The short term impact is clear, but it's the longer term which matters most. We will no longer trust Russia as a reliable energy partner. If they use energy supplies as a weapon, that distrust will only harden, and not just with the west. If they are prepared to do it to us, then they will to anyone who gets in their way. They will have to rebuild that trust with ironclad guarantees. That won't happen with this regime.

The hot war will end, but the new economic one has only just begun. It's not a Cold War of the kind we saw before, but the clock has definitely been sent backwards

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