Posted by cool_ambo on August 1st, 2017 | Comments Off on Congressional Sanctions
The House of Representatives put out sanctions against Russia.
Supplementary to this is the clause that prevents Trump
from recalling it nor change it.
Trump hesitates to sign this because the EU
is up in arms in protest.
EU needs the oil from Russia which the sanctions forbid.
This is one method by which the House of representatives
flexes its muscles in the hope of pleasing the 2018 voters.
Trump should sign this sanction against Russia.
Putin will understand that this is one handiwork from democracy.
He expelled several hundred foreign affairs employees from the
American embassies in Russia as a reply to the sanctions.
This act, of course, has little effect on the diplomatic relationship
between Putin and Trump.
But my hunch of America retreating into a cocoon
is starting to be realized.
The EU will make efforts to be independent of the US.
At this time the US will retreat into protectionism
to strengthen further its potency in both trade and weapons.
There will be better connectivity between Russia and EU.
Eventually, Nato will be re-exanmined for relevance.
The arctic will be more in focus.
Canada will again be ignored by the UN.
But it will keep sending Canadian soldiers in harms’ way
for the UN, to just be slain by friendly fire.
It will be a boon for Canada if it shuns Nafta
and seek beef trade with Russia and oil-trade with Japan.
Canada will further reconsider manufacturing small arms,
artillery, tanks, and gravity-powered drones.
By the time that America comes back to regain its place,
the EU would have established a laissez-faire policy
and the co-prosperity sphere that the Japanese shoguns
attempted to form would have been loosely established
like a cooperative.
Ah, but this is not wistful thinking.
This is just plain thinking.
