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Its hard to predict how Putin will respond because like a chess player what seems like the obvious can be a set up for something totally different. The obvious would be a replay of Stalingrad in Donetsk in which the Ukrainian get sucked into a battle of attrition only to get encircled the moment they think they are about to gain a victory. It all depends on how dangerous the threat the Kremlin deems a NATO Ukraine is to the national security of Russia.
but do these food-"counter-"sanctions hurt the EU more than they hurt Russia ?
Would Russia have welcomed them, if not Russia but the EU had announced
the very same "sanctions" ?
I just hope they will reconsider all these sanctions and countersanctions when the final
Dutch report about MH17, the assumed reason, is out. (when is it scheduled ? I don't know)
I think, there must also be a deescalation strategy, so the response cannot be harder than
the measure which it responds to. So the measure plus response plus counterresponse plus
counter-counter-response .... must converge.
I'm thinking about possible military conflict-escalation here also.
Not that someone shoots down a (spy?)plane, the response is sinking the ship that fired the missile,
the counter-response is blocking the maritime street, ... , nuclear war
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