I doubt that very seriously. First of all, there is far too much corruption involved to keep many many dollars from chasing profits in Russia when it is no longer politically incorrect to do so. Second, I’d say its even money whether this ends badly, long term, for Russia / Putin, or it pushes Russia and China closer together and ends the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, thus having this end far worse for the US than anyone else.

If that’s a “win” for the administration, I’d rather lose as well.

Biden is desperate to improve polling, and every thing he does is about that.

The scale and destructiveness of the present invasion is quite different.

I think Democrats would like this to continue until the election but don’t want to say so.

The Presidential Press Secretary was intended to be an advocate for us, the citizens of the U.S., not a modern day Goebbels shucking and jiving through every press conference to prop up any absurdity the Chief Executive may say or do.

The office should be abolished. It’s been a joke for decades.

Many of our elected officials have gotten into the habit of condemning American citizens without due process. There should be tremendous outrage when this is done, especially since so many of them have law degrees and most are still members of a state bar.

The presumed innocence of all Americans should be sacrosanct, and our elected officials should be held to the highest standard in upholding and defending that inherent right.

https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-march-17

I agree that it would be smarter at this time to refrain from trying to close off any face-saving exits which might be available to Putin. Do they actually want a larger war?