Quote (Saucisson6000 @ 28 Apr 2022 05:15)
Your view is a grotesque, US doesn't say "boys", sounds like you think it works like in China commanding its provinces or something like this.
There's a very common ground and US is the biggest actor in military. There's incredible benefits for EU & US to stop Russia being agressive.
Btw I doubt all the countries you listed will start to have a significant trade with Russia at the detrimental of their relation with the whole "west"...
Alright here is where I think you might be mistaken about detrimental with the relationship to the West.
First thing first Countries and Sovereigns are very intelligent.
China and India total population almost 3 Billion.
Resources, products, oil and gas security with Mid East, trades with Asean.
South America products.
I will give one very obvious example in recent month.
USA "allows" the perks of India trading directly with Russia without repercussions , as long as she stands on her side when USA wants to deal with China, henceforth "QUAD".
But the rest of USA allies better not. Japan is fuming over this right now.
And you think with Those country I mention above that still trade with Russia using Ruble and Cryto , unless you want to sanction all those countries.
As technology progress and oil and gas security is more important than ever for developing countries. We are extremely interdependent to everyone else whether you like it or not.
Hence in my personal opinion , sanctions doesn't work.
If it did,
Iran would have bowed, North Korea would have bowed, Cubans would have bowed, imagine so a small tiny country right next to the USA have not bowed. But the Cubans are practicing some excellent diplomacy lately and they are a harmless threat so the Americans don't really care.