Soundwave said:
Obama did counter it by badly hurting Russia's oil industry with sanctions, Russia has been hurting economically big time for that. Russia bought off Trump and the reward for that will be the lifting of those sanctions. Probably a great deal for them, to buy one politican is a relatively small thing compared to the money they were losing on sanctions. |
What Obama needed was a hard response. By hurting them economically he actually made Russia far more desperate and dangerous. If America just said "stop here we draw the line" and showed its military might is not the fuck with when they invaded Ukraine and Georgia, Putin wouldn't have gone so far as he did.
