[T]he U.S. has been at the forefront of manipulating and interfering in the crisis since the outbreak.
America is both the cure and the sickness: it strengthens whom it wants, and it weakens whom it wants.
[I]f European and American sanctions are destined to be something other than a Pavlovian reaction or moral incantation, they must be accompanied by realistic objectives.
Within a few years, the "American Caesar" will perish, and the time will come to bury him once and for all.