That's true, but how would you propose to stop Russia's (or some other nation's) armies from waging war? That's what sanctions are for, and if they don't work, then we need to do something else.

@cy Hmm. Diplomacy not sanctions. “It is easy to say pacta sunt servanda, that agreements must be kept. But this requires building and maintaining trust. Doing so will require all sides to stop airing their tired narratives in public — such as when Moscow dismisses the perspectives of Central and Eastern European states as Russophobic or when Western countries pointlessly insist that NATO expansion is directed against no one — and recognize one another’s security concerns as legitimate."