[NeliX4]

Trading stop with China would mean the US Phase 1 deal closing, which is far more advantageous to China than the EU deal.

Also Germany is not the whole EU, but yes Germany could have stopped this. Something only _Germany_ does is the gas pipe to Russia. Germany buys GAS from Russia with more than 20 nuclear reactors worth from the Mafia State.

On a positive side US is back to path for democracy. Go EU, go US!

[cheph]

I agree, US and the rest of Europe should be ashamed also for not doing more.

And the German Nord Stream 2 is entirely unconscionable, and the authoritarianism of Russia is already spreading westwards and will be at Germany's borders sooner rather than later if Germany does not take a harder stance against it.