David Sanger: Europeans Are Skeptical of U.S. Approach to Russia

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SANGER: “No, there isn‘t and, you know, I think one of the things that was most striking was that the Europeans are following a very different strategy than the Americans in dealing with Russia the U.S. effort is not to criticize Russia not to arm the Ukrainians but instead to sell weapons to Europe, which the Europeans are free to resell or give to the Ukrainians. And that‘s exactly what‘s happening. That‘s how the the pipeline operates. The Europeans, on the other hand, think that in fact Putin is beginning to run out of troops, that that while he is making gains, they are coming at enormous human cost for the Russians and therefore that this is the opportunity to sort of step in and strike. Right. And so their view is don‘t be making deals with Russia right now. In fact, I heard a lot of skepticism about the negotiations from European leaders who said a bad deal will”