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Putin had viewed China as his backup option should the West seek to isolate Russia following its annexation of Crimea.
The second option, per Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, would require the vice president and the cabinet or Congress to declare the president “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
The third option, which some have called the “Nixonian solution,” is the most intriguing.
Like it or not, the world’s best option is to ensure that the next three and a half years are as successful – or at least as resistant to disaster – as possible.
Gaullism, or the vision of a French-led European counterweight to the US, has never been an option for Germany.
Attempting to quell disruptive technologies and protect existing companies through, for example, antitrust crusades, is not an option.
For them, peaceful, gradual change is the best option.
If a twenty-first-century post-sovereign system remains an unreachable dream in our Hobbesian world, and reverting to nineteenth-century norms by acquiescing to aggressive behavior by Russia and China is unpalatable, defending the postwar international system may be the best option we have.
Brazil has been mulling whom to pick to renew its Air Force’s fighter fleet, and, whereas Lula favored France, Roussel canceled that option and may be leaning toward the US.
One option is a “preventive” military strike.
A second option is living with a nuclear North Korea.
The third option is diplomacy.
Third, environmental sustainability is not an option.
The argument can be made that a multilateral approach is not just the better option; it is the only one.
A third option for limiting debt accumulation is to reconsider tax rules that favor debt.
Neo-isolationism is not an option, but restraint – based on confidence and wisdom – is.
In The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, doctors have the additional option of responding to the patient’s request by giving the patient a lethal injection.
Amid constant elections and referenda, that isn’t really an option.
The better option would be to work on the countries’ leaders.
Unfortunately, if it does not, the only option for stopping Iran is war – and war is a very bad option.
Daunting as all of this may be, stalling vaccination is not an option.
If US policymakers are worried about these issues, their only option is to agree to quota increases for the IMF, thereby allowing responsibility for international financial stability to migrate back to where it belongs: the hands of a legitimate international organization.
In other words, at some point, lying still will no longer be an option.
“I told him [Olmert] I had decided on a diplomatic option backed by force” to stop Syria, Bush writes.
One option would be to pursue a policy of “opacity plus”: a further lifting of the veil over its nuclear arsenal in order to caution Iran’s rulers about the potential consequences of their actions.
Another option would be to bring the country’s nuclear arsenal out of the basement altogether.
That leaves nuclear use as the final option.
Opening a once closed economy, however, is no easy option for governments.
The UN has no other option but to cooperate with the internationally recognized regime, regardless of how that regime treats the population in areas outside of government control.
An alternative option would be to activate the European Central Bank’s “outright monetary transactions” program, in which the ECB would purchase eurozone member states’ bonds in secondary markets.
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