That won't be avoiding, just delaying, the threat will always be there only worse. What ever works for him, he just continues, and he has every plan to continue. Just like the first fight with the school yard bully, he shakes his fist, pushes, punches, and constantly terrorize until you call him on it. You have to push the fear aside, take whatever hits come at you, deal with it and make it so that he never punches and pushes you again.
I know describing it that way is overly simplistic and not anything to the degree that the world finds themselves in now. But it is still true and comparative.
Nuclear weapons was always stated and supposedly used as a "deterrent". It is no longer that, it is a weapon of choice for Putin and uses it to attack and conquer and will continue to use it to attack, kill, and destroy millions for his ever growing need of power and ideals. So much for any "deterrent" to ever work again and really shouldn't be called that now. Unfortunately it will be only used as a weapon by not just Putin, but other authoritarian leaders seeing the success.
I'm sorry to say, it time for "do or die" and for him to get kicked out of the %1 club. He's a threat to that "club" and their pockets and will do nothing but continue to disrupt the club's order of things, so they need to kick him permanently out of it. It's a tough act to write, but still needs to be done, and eliminate the threat to them and everybody else's. Or we will be just rewriting this play over and over again, and Putin will be the editor.
Pretty serious stuff I know, but that's the way I see it.
Kleptocrats: a ruler who uses political power to steal his or her country's resources.
Kleptocracy: government by those who seek chiefly status and personal gain at the expense of the governed.
