01-10-2017, 09:43 PM
(01-10-2017, 08:51 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: We used diplomacy on China and threatened them with Sanctions. We also didn't throw out their diplomats in a knee jerk reaction.
And just how many more active sanctions can we put on Russia before we push them so far that we can't make reparations with them? Is that Obama's goal?
The threatened sanctions were similar to those we used with Russia, including the expulsions. China just agreed to play ball, and we even tried to bring Russia in back then. As for calling the expulsions knee jerk, we've known about this for months. This is anything but knee jerk.
If Russia is going to continue ti be adversarial then I hope we keep slapping sanctions on them. Putin misses the days of the Cold War, his political power feeds off of our adversarial relationship and if we don't respond then he gains more power by making us seem weak. It's a lose-lose for us, but we lose less by responding.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
