Strange question. What do you think high-pressure diplomacy on the part of the most powerful nation on Earth accomplishes?

Without a willingness to go to war probably not a whole lot else more. And we can’t go to war because whenever we do we’re bad guys unless it’s a war Europe approves of. Rhetoric has consequences.

Nothing strange about it. Maybe the EU which is many times larger than Russia and posses countries like France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Poland should call Putin and do whatever you’re suggesting the US should do.