[lostalex]

Originally Posted by Nedusa

Not sure Europe is irrelevant to the US, the US is desparately hoping Europe will apply more serious sanctions to Russia because it cannot harm Russia with its own unilateral sanctions.

The US needs Europe to apply serious sanctions to Russia as Europe is a major trading partner and has the power to hurt Russia, the US in this situation is irrelevant to Russia and Russia knows this.

Putin is applying all his diplomacy to Germany and the UK he knows these countries hold the key to whether further sanctions will be applied.

Personally I don't think the EU will upset Russia any further as they would suffer also.

And why should they suffer to help the US, the US created the very situation that has forced Russia to defend itself and protect its naval base in the Crimea .

To be honest Obama needs to get a grip and stop prodding the bear because eventually it will strike back and as another poster said , the US is drowning in debt and knows its only a matter of time before the US dollar loses its reserve currency status and when that happens well ... Massive recession in the US which will make the last one in 2008 look like a tea party.




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Everything about this post seems to assume that the US benefits by Russia being hurt? How does it benefit the US to hurt Russia? the US is just doing what it's always done since ww2 ended, trying to protect a free Europe from Russia. i don't see why anyone would complain about that.