Table 18
Recommendations for Scenario 4

Urgent priorities Longer-term priorities
Congress
  • Conduct public hearings and reviews to assess the status of sanctions enforcement
  • Take the lead in bringing public and government attention to the negative effects of lax sanctions policy
Conduct public hearings to develop a reinvigorated longer-term sanctions policy
US governmentProduce assessments of achieving maximum efficiency of sanctions policies with resources that are still available
  • Produce assessments of the impact of stalled sanctions policy and recommendations to reinvigorate it
  • Produce assessments of Russia's reaction to lost sanctions momentum and its efforts to seize the emerged window of opportunity, develop new set of recommendations on reacting to new circumstances
NGOs, civil society groups
  • Increase public awareness of the actual achievements of sanctions policy in terms of enhancing the security of the US and the Western world
  • Increase public awareness of the risks posed by dismantling or the gradual erosion of sanctions
Prepare expertise supporting future decisive turnaround in lax sanctions policy should Russia commit more acts of aggression and lawless behavior, being stimulated by easing of sanctions and their enforcement
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