My alternative solutions:

1. Release multiple Ranger and Seal Teams on missions to kill Putin and his cronies.
   
2. Send troops across the Bering Sea to reclaim West Alaska. We can justify the invasion by demonstrating that West Alaska was always part of Alaska as shown by the use of the Aleut language on both sides of the Bering Straight and that the Tsar when he sold Alaska to The USA in 1867 intended that it include West Alaska. This claim is at least as plausible as Putin’s claim on the Ukraine.
   We spend a trillion dollars a year on defense we should be able to do both.

On the bright side the Ukraine has driven Covid off the front page.