I don’t fully understand this logic:

“Let’s let a Russian mercenary company operate unsanctioned for a year, and wait until February 2023 before we decide if they should be sanctioned.”

They should have been sanctioned over 100,000 lives ago.

Isn’t it possible that the “fuckery” is actually just society kicking a lot of really important cans down the road for decades, and the pandemic was simply a trigger event?

From climate to infrastructure to labor policy to classism to distribution of wealth, we have a number of deep structural issues. The current “way” was never sustainable and many have been warning of that unsustainability at the top of their lungs for decades… to skeptics that largely didn’t give two shits and deliberately discredited them.

Now, the things they have been warning of are coming to fruition, and they continue to be insulted and dismissed. The things they have been warning us about for years are still being dismissed as just “fuckery” being committed by bad actors… which just continues the denials that the problems are actually systemic.

I’d be careful about the term “forcing.” Luring, persuading, seducing someone into an action they were unlikely to have otherwise committed typical falls within the definition of entrapment. In most law, absolutely no force need be applied in order to constitute entrapment.