President Obama told a press conference today that he and British Premier David Cameron agreed on the need to continue sanctioning Russia over its “aggression” against neighboring Ukraine.
The announcement isn’t necessarily surprising, as Cameron is one of the most outspoken EU leaders on sanctions, and the US has little trade with Russia, and sees little risk in continuing the sanctions for their own sake.
The sanctions risk setting up a battle in the EU, however, as both Germany and France have recently come out in favor of ending the sanctions, and Germany’s vice-chancellor called out the pro-sanction wing for wanting sanctions for no good reason.
For EU-wide sanctions, a vote has to be unanimous, and as the sanctions threaten more EU nations’ economic ties with Russia, it will be virtually impossible to get those unanimous votes.
When not one person has been jailed for the US/UK Iraq genocide sanctions, they will keep teaming up for more.
Pretty soon the only countries imposing sanctions will be the US and the UK. And they'll be the only ones who will pay any attention to said sanctions. Eventually, the rest of the world will come to their senses and sanction the US and the UK. Don't need a reason.
Well the USA and UK heads the EU anyway.
a couple of lads practicing for their exclusive mens club
Hey, there, Mr. O-Bomb-a, the most criminally aggressive governments on earth are your own and Israel’s.
Seems the AngloUZ empire is at war with the world. How many sanctions (=warfare, basically) are currently active, how many regime change operations in action ?
The US spent 5 Billion Dollars on a neo-nazi coup in Kiev which only succeeded because of the snipers. Who were they and who paid them ? And then they call Putin aggressive ?
Obama is a war criminal.Today,January 18, Ukrainian army launched a artillery attack.After that they will accuse Russia…
No worry, the US will supply weapons to Kiev and keep Kiev escalating the war until Russia fights back with real strength on Eastern Ukraine's behalf. Then the US will be able to say that Russia is trying to take the Ukraine. And the US will have manufactured a situation which will cause people to listen and start to believe it. No matter how many times Putin succeeds in temporary peace negotiations.
There is no good end to this thing. Even Germany and France will crumble to US interests.