Cutting SWIFT cuts a lot of the money exchange between Russia and Europe and the Europeans don't want that to happen.
Well, we do have the largest military in the history of the world. I guess you could call that a "stick".
I don't see how any economic sanctions will deter Putin until and unless Biden loosens up on domestic oil production, and we can start providing more oil to ourselves and especially to the other countries that purchase oil from Russia. Sorry but climate change and carbon footprints are very very very low on the priority list right now. Sorry Greta - welcome to real life problems.
You actually believe for one second that Trump is anything but a mentally and physically unfit sociopath? Seriously, I would put $1,000 down on Biden beating Trump easily in any spelling quiz, vocabulary quiz, reading quiz, US history quiz, geography quiz, or World History quiz. I would also place $1,000 on Biden beating Trump in any kind of physical fitness test. I would also put $1,000 on Biden beating Trump on any test like riding a bike, balancing, or stacking objects without them falling. Need we add obesity test too? Last, but most important, no President in history has been labeled by so many psychiatrists as a malignant narcissist / sociopath.
Again, if you don't understand why prices are so high in just about everything around the world, you should read more. I gave you the article dealing with inflation, so if you don't want to read it there is no point in teaching you economics.
This is where we should all be more times than not. I appreciate these posts and this line of thinking. Imagine where we could be, where we could go, if we could put the rhetoric aside, and work together better.