Is this even a serious question? You got to be either blind or a troll. Russia has literally started a war in European continent, did you expect EU to pat them on the back?

EU tries hard not to provoke another major conflict, but it obviously cannot tolerate that. Russia hasn't been in "good" relationship with EU in a while too, as the whole Europe/Russia divide doesn't come from yesterday.

And your comparison is that detailed: EU is clearly less anti-Russia than US, this is shows when Macron for ex. repeatedly refused to hurry Ukraine acceptance into the Union and NATO, same for Germany. So clearly, EU does balance between going 100% with US, and having its own interests protected.

Also, Russia has a potential to start another ""special operation"" in Moldova, and who knows, maybe in some Baltic state, after all they too, have a huge russian-speaking communities being "opressed" there. Are you trying to say EU should let them do it, and continue "business as usual", while Russia is ripping countries apart?

I believe the question has merit and I cannot really understand it myself. Obviously an invasion like Crimea or not the rest of Ukraine is a hostile act and specifically directed against "western influence". That said, the relationship with Russia was far better 15 years ago, there was an idea of Russia joining NATO even. I believe the following generation of politicians and diplomats were just incompetent in building a relationship with Russia and the same is true the other way around. There might even be interests in stoking the fire of such a conflict and perhaps the revolution in Ukraine was supported by outside forces. Or maybe Russia just suspects as much. Contrary to popular belief states aren't all-knowing.

To be honest I wouldn't have expected Russia to invade further but it shows how much the relationship has degraded in the last decade.

Sanctions are almost entirely accidental / coincidental; USA and EU have wanted to probably do this since Brexit / 2016; sanctions have done nothing to deter Russian military operations in the mysterious slavic lands.

All the EU / NATO people also seem to believe two things: Russia is losing the war, Ukraine is winning the war, but however Russia is threatening Berlin in 7 days.

Part of me wishes to push what is already falling and see EU cut off energy from Russia yesterday, it's going to be hilarious seeing NSDAP and other radical political parties start autospawning all over the place when energy, producer and food prices hit record prices.

Noticed that milk I buy was 22% more expensive today than couple weeks ago. I see little point to this "trade block" when it has just made the material living conditions worse for me overtime, and tells me I need to accept it because "slava ukraini".

EU has 2300km border with Russia.

Putin threatens all the time eastern european countries to "liberate" russian speaking population there.

(You are not political science student or you lack basic knowledge)

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