More Coercion Provokes More Destabilizing Behavior

Increasing pressure through economic coercion almost always leads the targeted state to engage in more of the behavior that the U.S. finds objectionable.

Michael McFaul and Oleksiy Honcharuk predictably want more economic coercion directed against Russia:

The current sanctions regime will not change Kremlin behavior. A new model — cascade sanctions — should be adopted to ratchet up new sanctions every year that Russia continues to sustain the war in eastern Ukraine. This approach turns time against the ag…