Conference call: Obama, Cameron, Hollande, Merkel,...Mussolini...Silvio Berlusconi...Sylvia Poggioli...frigging Francesco Schettino--whoever the hell the capo dei capi of Italy is--agreed to further agree tomorrow when the EU meets, to impose new sanctions.
Wonder what the end game of this is going to be. It's a moot point as long as Putin keeps attacking Ukraine but at some point he will stop. Then what? Will the sanctions end? Will the sanctions end when Putin says, "Ok, I'm done"? The sanctions are not going to reverse what Putin has already done, he's not going to return Crimea. Obama has told him repeatedly that the U. S. will never recognize the annexation of Crimea but that doesn't mean the sanctions over Crimea will be in place forever. Putin can't bring back the 300 people killed on MH17, which prompted this new round of sanctions. How long are these sanctions to last? Do you think they talked about that on the conference call today? I don't. That is so amorphous, there would be so many considerations, I don't think they'd even talk about that. But at some point, presumably, they will.
Wonder what the end game of this is going to be. It's a moot point as long as Putin keeps attacking Ukraine but at some point he will stop. Then what? Will the sanctions end? Will the sanctions end when Putin says, "Ok, I'm done"? The sanctions are not going to reverse what Putin has already done, he's not going to return Crimea. Obama has told him repeatedly that the U. S. will never recognize the annexation of Crimea but that doesn't mean the sanctions over Crimea will be in place forever. Putin can't bring back the 300 people killed on MH17, which prompted this new round of sanctions. How long are these sanctions to last? Do you think they talked about that on the conference call today? I don't. That is so amorphous, there would be so many considerations, I don't think they'd even talk about that. But at some point, presumably, they will.
