Russian Sanctions Might Be Obama’s Greatest Blunder
One of the greatest foreign policy blunders of the Obama Administration was the push by the U.S. for economic sanctions against Russia. That led to Russia fleeing into the arms of China for refuge. In response, Russia, Europe’s largest and most populated country, is now intent on moving its vast storehouse of resources eastward, strengthening America’s largest emerging rival.
Over the last two years, the two countries have completed a $700 billion agreement for Russia to deliver energy to China, amounting to about 17% of Chinese annual supply, for a period covering twenty years, with China financing much of the initial costs of pipeline construction.
What Russia has done, in that one move, is to help repair a major hole in China’s military armor, making it invulnerable to a U.S. cut-off of sea bourn energy supplies, which until now was one of the greatest fears of Chinese military strategists.
From the Chinese perspective, this is a gift that fulfills its wildest dreams. It’s also a gift that could severely undermine the West's plans to deliver expensive Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) to China and Asia, while already facing competition from Qatar and Australia LNG, will now also run up against Russian pipeline gas through China.
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"Economy in Tatters" and his other confrontations and why Hillary Mocked Putin in Canada.
But it seems to me the USA Position shows us in a negative light where we are almost "Provoking Russia" rather than using Diplomacy....which should have been the way to go...and seemed to be what Putin wanted in his Address to his Parliament which was throwing an "olive branch" to the West....but, they chose to trash him over it.
Even here on DU the full translation of his speech and You Tube were taken out of context and attacked.
So....we get what we get when we keep acting like spoiled children who want ALL THE CANDY......and we will do whatever it takes to get it ...even if it means taking dad's gun out of the closet and shooting it wildly to see whatever we can take down.
DIPLOMACY.....Negotiating......Where did that all go in American/Democratic Policy? 
